Save the Date: International #OpenAccess Week will be October 19-25, 2026. #OAWeek is an opportunity to join together, take action & raise awareness of the benefits of openly sharing knowledge. www.openaccessweek.org

📣 Join us on March 5th for the Community Call, where we'll discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team. 🤝 ASAPbio and @prereview.bsky.social staff will discuss peer review crowds and clubs, PREreview platform & more. Register 👇️ buff.ly/5I0wC4l

Happy 3rd day of #DOASummit2026! Did you catch @crossref.bsky.social presentation on #metadata for #DiamondOA? Recording (1:52:00) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjJ... PKP + Crossref Partnership for more rich, inclusive metadata in #OpenJournalSystems + #OpenMonographPress: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/22/c...

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach doi.org/10.64000/vfe... Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.

We just tipped over 24,000 active organisational members and also reached 165 countries with the addition of the *University of Nouakchott*, bringing representation and governance from *Mauritania* for the first time! A big welcome to them 🇲🇷 🤩

In two weeks, I will be giving a talk at the @aaas.org meeting in Phoenix, AZ, in the session 'Curators on the Front Lines of the Information Wars', organized by @senseaboutsci.bsky.social With Michael Meth and @rpocisv.bsky.social aaas.confex.com/aaas/2026/me... I hope to see you in Phoenix!

Amazing points from @operaseu.bsky.social here operas.hypotheses.org/9636

Nooooooo! No thanks. Nope. techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/o...

Join us tomorrow to learn about Crossref's Grant Linking System/Grant DOIs and hear how the open grant metadata created by our funder members is being put to good use in Dimensions and Altmetric.

🌍 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐜, 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 Hello | مرحبًا | こんにちは | Salut With these new translations, the Declaration is now available in 𝟏𝟖 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, supporting engagement with open research information across regions and contexts. ⬇️

Sure, but in the UK the PACE Act and GDPR means the Police have to go through legal channels to request footage. What I'm saying is that can easily change, especially if your Goverment/Agencies do not respect laws. Probably best to just not have the tech at all.

Yep, it’s happening. As predicted.

All done with the tacit approval of the @royalsociety.org, an organisation that has sadly lost its way and yet still claims to speak for the scientific community. It doesn't speak for me.

Corrections, biases, and humility in science: Tuan V. Nguyen escaped Vietnam in 1981 as part of the mass “boat people” exodus of refugees, taking to dangerous waters just a few months after his older brother tried the same and disappeared. Today, he's a professor and bone researcher in Australia.

Investing €35M in Open Science Infrastructure: Insights from Open Science Netherlands https://www-openaire-eu.translate.goog/investing-35m-in-open-science-infrastructure-insights-from-open-science-netherlands?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Cheating cases persist at prestige schools, but fears of reputational damage go unaddressed: Cheating cases persist at prestige schools, but fears of reputational damage go unaddressed www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

1983. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJBA...

A fantastic example for other countries and regions

So happy to see that 'Democratising spy watching' is now out there for all to read! #OpenAccess It looks at cases where the public fought back against digital surveillance ✊ This was the last book I worked on with SUP so I feel quite emotionally attached to it! 👉 books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters. A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’ Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Have you met the Wikipede? In another universe, maybe it has been Wikipedia's logo for over two decades. Community members submitted many designs, proposed changes, and debated them openly 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

Here's how the Earth article looked in 2001 when Wikipedia was a month old, long before Wikipedians realized their fledgling online encyclopedia would be read and edited by astronauts in space someday

#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Hello! We're a new consultancy specialising in #OpenResearch and #ScholComms -- a collaboration between Josh Brown & @alicemeadows.bsky.social (both formerly of @morebrains.coop). Learn more at ore.consulting or contact us here if you'd like to chat!

Crossref Grant IDs can now be included across all record types, helping create clearer, more reliable links between funding and research outputs. https://doi.org/10.64000/x7d4h-x3r11

A Path Forward for PubPub by Knowledge Futures www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026...

Come and hear how our Grant Linking System supports tools like Dimensions and Altmetric to help funders assess the reach and return on their investments. Register to join Manisha Bolina of Digital Science and Ginny Hendricks of Crossref on 22nd January www.digital-science.com/using-crossr...

Great work, team!! It's always both productive and fun to work on Barcelona Declaration activities 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Proud to be a part of the Barcelona Declaration as part of our open metadata commitments! Congrats to the BD team on a productive 2025 🎉👏🏼

Top work, lads

Kudos to the @acm.org : "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access." dl.acm.org/openaccess #CS #ComputerScience #OpenAccess #ScholComm

2025: an annus horribilis for health in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So. What are best strategies for us as researchers? How do we divert this sewage, what infrastructural elements help drain it out of the system? What are best—and by that I mean efficient, least effortful—practices whenever we encounter this kind of crap? We need public education in info hygiene.

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

Wherein Newsletter Guy is aghast to discover, a few decades late, that libraries accommodate knwldg production + (social) learning in myriad forms! But if you give college kids ☕️, they’ll forget how to read!! Non-📚-centric things are pro-illiteracy! These are spaces of “necessity,” not FUN, dammit!

What an event it's been! Exhausting and exhiliarating. So many thoughful reflections and interesting updates from our Community! I hope you enjoyed @crossref.bsky.social Annual Meeting this year, and if you missed it – have a read of the summary we've finally compiled doi.org/10.64000/0te...

A summary of our year. If you didn’t get to catch up on the latest news from us this year, here is a handy overview in just 22-minutes, featuring some new product features, deprecations, financials, and a final farewell to our data centre! doi.org/10.64000/hsd... #openinfrastructure #annualreport

The blogpost is a commentary on recent interventions by the the Committee on Publication Ethics @publicationethics.bsky.social and the International Science Council (ISC) @sciencecouncil.bsky.social

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

One year ago we launched the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) publish-review-curate platform. This has been one of the most exciting things I've been involved in over the past year. Very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the development of MetaROR!

"The technology exists. The standards are being discussed as part of various initiatives, including the @barcelonadori.bsky.social. What’s needed now is widespread adoption and a recognition that true funding transparency requires open metadata." Couldn't agree more!

· #AcademicSky · UK to rejoin Erasmus+: “an excellent early Christmas gift,” says president of @eua.eu, Josep Garrell. @sophieatrpn.bsky.social reports via @resprofnews.bsky.social

glorious Autumn colours in Victoria Park this morning

Our new and improved Participation Reports are here—dashboards for each of 23,300 member organisations to see their #openmetadata status and gaps. Whether the full-text is #openaccess or not, open metadata shows evidence of publishers' efforts. Now for funder members too! crossref.org/members/prep

2/2 • 45 funders using Grant IDs (250k+ links) • Standardisation + coordination = faster progress🔗 Read: barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025102... #FundingMetadata #OpenScience #OpenResearchInformation

1/2 Moving funding metadata forward: highlights from our round table (co-organized with @crossref.bsky.social) New blog by @hldejonge.bsky.social , based on Working Group 3 (Funding Metadata) • ~25% Crossref records have funding info ⬇️

Yup!

The panel at #Crossref2025 discusses some of the challenges of the Research Nexus in the real world - the technical challenges of the scale, keeping metadata open (particularly abstracts), use of metadata by AI, importance of metadata in languages other than English.