This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #nups network. The aim of this Open Science NL funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models. 👉 […]

Invest in Open Infrastructure (#IOI) makes an important point in its new report: https://investinopen.org/state-of-open-infrastructure-2025/sooi-foreword-2025/ "Imagine just a few of the major open infrastructures serving scholarship today: #arxiv, #pubmed, #DSpace, #openjournalsystems, or […]

A more concise entry on @opensciencenl.bsky.social to our (with @jeroenbosman.bsky.social) longer blog post on @upstreamblog.bsky.social post of this morning: https://www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the-resilience-of-open-science-in-times-of-crisis #openscience #resilience

Science is under attack. In a new Upstream post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman and I detail current events around 5 types of threats, show how scientists and others are pushing back, and we propose a resilience model to […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Deadline is approaching (15th of May). The aim of the NWO funding instrument is to support Diamond #openaccess for journals. Funding is for 2-year projects and aimed at existing (closed / hybrid) journals that want to transition to Diamond Open Access. Read further […]

Update. "Foreign interference laws ‘no protection from #Trump edicts’" https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/foreign-interference-laws-no-protection-trump-edicts (#paywalled) "A memo sent to Australian collaborators in US-funded research projects seeks assurances that they and their […]

New blog @OpenScienceNL: 'Let's talk about open access books: What lessons have we learned from the NWO Open Access Books Fund?' https://www.openscience.nl/en/cases/lets-talk-about-open-access-books @oapenbooks #openaccess #OpenAccessBooks @oabooksnetwork

New preprint: we develop and tested an open method to track transformative #OpenAccess agreements using @OpenAlex and @cOAlitionS_OA Journal Checker Tool data. Testing with Dutch Research Council NWO publications showed 89% accuracy 🎯 w/ @HLdeJonge @Jeroenson#openaccess[…]

🔍 Tracking transformative agreements and its individual articles is harder than it should be. We developed a method combining #openmetadata from @OpenAlex & @cOAlitionS_OA Journal Checker Tool data, published as preprint on @MetaArXiv w/ @HLdeJonge and @MsPhelps#openmetadata[…]

Excited to announce I've been appointed Executive Director of the Barcelona Declaration @BarcelonaDORI , (alongside my other consulting activities). We have funding for the next 3 years and will soon discuss the creation of a governance board […]

At a time where Diamond #openaccess is gaining traction in Europe and the Netherlands, and where the Dutch Research Council (NWO) issued a call to support flips of journals, this guide, written by my wonderful library colleagues, comes at the right time: https://zenodo.org/records/14652446

On February 18, 2025, @utrechtuniversity and University Leiden organise the symposium ‘Authors and Rights in Publishing: Perspectives on Contracts, Licenses, Rights Retention, AI, and TDM.’ I’ll give a workshop on the undesirable aspects of author contracts. More info: bookings.uu.nl/event/4299145

And we start the new year with an exiting Open Science NL call! Want to contribute to transparency and reliability in research? Open Science NL offers funding for replication studies across all disciplines. Apply by 6 March 2025, with budgets of up to €200,000. Find out more in the Call for […]

.@nwonieuws and @OpenScienceNL will organise an information and Q&A session for the CfP #Diamond #openaccess. Flipping your (closed/hybrid) journal to a DOA model? This is for you! Please join the session on 21st of January 2025, 3-4pm CET. More info here […]