As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

A stonkingly important initiative at a time when the public record is under severe threat www.datarescueproject.org/about-data-r...

An update on our plans to establish the PRC Alliance which will seek to raise the visibility and status of the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model and facilitate greater coordination across the diverse PRC community. publish-review-curate.org/2026/06/22/p... #AcademicPublishing

Excellent article by @richove.bsky.social on the role of the presidential library & historical record. "Access to the official records of a nation...is a fundamental tenet of democracy, enabling accountability, transparency..." Paywalled: I read via one-off acces. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds

Are you a researcher with a passion for #openscience? Applications for the Open Research Europe (ORE) Scientific Advisory Board are now open! Help to support the strategic development and integrity of the #openaccess publishing platform. Full details here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

A few thoughts on the launch of JROR, especially because the editors are actively soliciting comment: 1: So much time & energy go into running journals (above & beyond the editorial labor), so kudos for this group for resigning from Publications & then successfully starting another journal.

V sad. Libraries are a type of research lab. 'Chat GPT has not replaced [Librarians] One librarian...uses data transparency laws to uncover and find data that government [is] deliberately seeking to hide. Librarians are inseparable from the research and learning process for these ongoing efforts'

For anyone in the Oxford area. Luminous choral music from Northern Europe with works by Greig, Gjeolo, Pärt and others in the beautiful surroundings of Exeter College Chapel. Sat 4th July, 7.30pm Tickets via ticketsource.com/oxfordpromusica A limited number of tickets may be available on the door

There isn't a single "most important" part of any university, but your library is probably on the short list. And if you don't know anyone that works at your library, you should remedy that. They almost certainly want what you want - scholarship and research done well.

A year after nationalisation, is South Western Railway delivering?

N8 Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing www.n8research.org.uk/what-we-do/r... #KEOS26

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory. We now have 170. oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Univ... Spread the word. The world could use many more. #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #OAD #ScholComm

Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

If I could give one piece of advice to any academic with such a resource: Talk to your librarian - preferably early in the project If anybody is well placed to advise on these issues it’s the library…

Rightwing populism is littered with broken promises. Its opponents need to make those failures count | Andy Beckett

“As a Wiley contributor you are also entitled to a 40% discount on copies of this work and 25% discount on many other Wiley books.” 🤨

and it is interesting that the “fireside chat” sessions seem to be the ones where you can’t hold anyone’s feet to the fire

Excellent piece. "funders cannot claim to want open access while withdrawing funding from open access. Instead, the support needs to be better targeted to the kinds of publishing models they want." I hope @cancerresearchuk.org will review its policy with urgency, taking on board all points made here

Update. "Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds." https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/ PS: When will US tech CEOs realize that this is all because of Donald #Trump? #uspol #uspolitics

The #Trump defunding of #usaid could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #ulouvain. https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/ #belgium #data #defendresearch #emdat #funding #opendata […]

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

We and @sparcopen.bsky.social are pleased to announce the publication of a new white paper addressing the legal uncertainties surrounding article versions and institutional copyright policies.

kudos to my coauthors @hansonmark.bsky.social @pagomba.bsky.social @danbrockington.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social @gemmaderrick.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @jameswilsdon.bsky.social Christine Noe and Fernanda Beigel

@saggiotipo.bsky.social have you seen this: MIT Grad Student Council resolution #OpenAccess drive.google.com/file/d/1KLbj...

The 14th PCI webinar is in 10 days ❗❗Details and registration at peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

V useful piece dispelling myths about NIH policy on open access upstream.force11.org/cost-of-conf...

The new NHMRC and MRFF Open Science Policy is a big expansion on previous open access publishing mandates. Emphasis on FAIR data across the lifecycle

Getting some nice press coverage for the launch of #OpenJournalsCollective last week @researchinfo.bsky.social #TheFutureIsDiamond www.researchinformation.info/news/open-jo...

By taking just a few minutes to complete our short survey, librarians can help us better understand how Think. Check. Submit. is being used and how we can develop tools and guidance that support you and your researchers. www.surveymonkey.com/r/KH8BDJH

📚✨ Power of School Libraries – Quote of the Week When school leadership teams value their library, it becomes a space that supports literacy, wellbeing, and a rights-respecting school culture. #SchoolLeadership #PowerOfSchoolLibraries #SchoolLibraries @cilip.bsky.social

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit orgs to take over the Open Access Tracking Project ( #OATP, @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy ) and the open-source software on which it runs. Details in this Google doc: bit.ly/TransferOATP #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm 🧵

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Can the editor of Science Signaling explain why it took 11 months to retract a paper by the Lesné group after being requested to do so by the authors' institutional research integrity officer, who confirmed published figure did not represent research record. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This important meta-science article should not be hidden behind a paywall.

All of us at RLUK were shocked and saddened to hear the news that Paul Aryis has died. Paul was committed to building up the library community - as well as his work at UCL he generously gave his time and wisdom to a wide range of conferences, workshops, and committees. www.leru.org/news/in-memo...

Leiden University launches strategic framework for scientific publishing | Leiden University https://www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/12/leiden-university-launches-strategic-framework-for-scientific-publishing

There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata. subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...

NIMH data repository is “under review for potential modification in compliance with Admimistration directives” W.T.A.F They claim to want Gold Standard Science but will ensure we can’t trust studies using repository data because they might have chnged numbers they don’t like nda.nih.gov

Just had our first set of reviews from @pci-regreports.bsky.social for our proposed study on RT during GLP-1-RA treatment. Probably the most constructive and useful set of reviews I have ever had... and having them before starting the study makes them even better! 11/10 would recommend!

💥New: Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency ✍️ @hldejonge.bsky.social Katharina Rieck & Zoé Ancion #OpenResearch #ResearchFunding #ScholComm

Job alert! The @coalitions-oa.bsky.social is searching for a new director. More info: 👇

🗞️We have just launched a tender for the @coalitions-oa.bsky.social Host Secretariat to support the implementation of our new strategy and work plan on #OpenAccess. Applications deadline: 31 Jan 2026, 17:00 CET Details available at 👉 www.coalition-s.org/tender-for-t... #Plan_S

Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism

I'm sympathetic to #NIH-funded authors who want to publish in #APC-based #openaccess journals and can't find the money to pay the APCs. But it's false to say that they must publish in those journals, in any other APC-based OA journals, or even in OA journals. Shame on _Inside Higher Ed_ leaving […]

Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁

Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly Communications Landscape https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/strategic-analysis-of-the-scholarly-communicationslandscape/