🎉 On Monday, 13 October at 4 pm (CEST), our colleague @utawehn.bsky.social will deliver her inaugural lecture "Making Participation Matter? Citizen Science for Sustainability and Governance". 👥 You can join the livestream or attend in person. Register here 👉 universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Nearly twenty years after the first igraph release, igraph 1.0 has finally arrived! 🎉 This release focuses on providing a stable and more consistent interface that users and downstream maintainers can rely on with confidence. For more detail, see igraph.org/2025/09/20/i...

Very excited about the partnership between @barcelonadori.bsky.social and @oa2020.org to work together on advancing openness of publication metadata in publisher negotiations! Interested to learn more? Join next Thursday's OA2020 webinar. Registration: eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @cwts.nl

So that news is out: Sorbonne University is withdrawing from the THE University ranking (or rankings, since there is a new one every other week) www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb... @sorbonne-universite.fr @barcelonadori.bsky.social @coarassessment.bsky.social thank you @nalarcon.bsky.social

Interesting seminar about open access publishing in India! Open for anyone to join, in person in Leiden or online.

"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings." Excellent!

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky Fraud and cover-up richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Open Research Europe's #OpenInfrastructure for #OpenPublishing will not be a fork of #OpenJournalSystems; it will BE #OJS 3.6! PKP is pleased to work on the next version of OJS that will underpin ORE in 2026, and this 3.6 version of OJS will also benefit OJS users around the world. #OSFair2025

ORE is special according to @fwf-at.bsky.social bc it allows nontraditional, decoupled publishing models like PRC. #openscience #OSFair2025

Big update from ORE @pkp.sfu.ca and @cern.bsky.social #OpenScience #OSFair2025

"At Arcadia Science, a biotechnology company, we publish everything immediately, openly. Real peer review happens in public, where any expert can contribute. Our work gets tested, challenged, and built on in real time."

1. What does a Cold War-era game theory problem known as the silent duel have to do with high-risk research strategies, publication in Cell/Nature/Science glamor journals, and the academic job market? Kevin Gross and I tackle these questions in our latest arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06718

In July, ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social, Creative Commons, and major research funders launched a Preprint Policy Framework. It outlines six best-practice components. We broke it down in a blog post, check it: buff.ly/2JMpTeL #AcademicSky #AcWri #SciWri

Our @cwts.nl PhD candidate Narmin Rzayeva chose to submit her most recent article, co-authored with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social and me, to MetaROR. The article presents an analysis of the adoption of preprinting across disciplines and regions. Glad to see the feedback provided by two reviewers!

"Open access policymaking should ... focus less on freely accessible publications (which are no doubt important) and more on the processes and forms of governance that go into good publishing."

A qualified statistician's review can improve study designs. But who has access to one? Our new article surveys this among Australian human research ethics committees. Reviewers liked the article yet were disappointed by the response rate. They suggested minor changes. 👇Read it now on MetaROR

"Preprints offer important pathway for rapid dissemination, especially in fields like global health where timely access to research can have real-world impact. By linking peer review comments to preprints, we’re enabling readers to benefit from expert evaluations earlier in the research lifecycle."

If you’re at the Open Science Fair next week, join our session on Sept 17 to learn why it’s time to move away from journal metrics in favour of more meaningful methods of research assessment: buff.ly/FC06AfH

Our analysis on possible effects of APC caps, which would limit grant money spending on publication fees, just like the NIH is considering for their updated public access policy, in the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today 👇🏼#ScholCommLab #openaccess #publishingmarket

Today we responded to the NIH Request for Information on publication costs, peer review, and publishing best practices. Transformative change won’t come from simply shifting who pays fees—it will come from grassroots action and top-down reform of what we value & reward. zenodo.org/records/1710...

Commitments → action @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social will discontinue its Web of Science subscription on 1 January 2026, consistent with the Barcelona Declaration. + Details: www.uu.nl/en/news/acce... #OpenResearchInformation #OpenScience #Utrechtuniversity

Community Reviews are science in real time! Check out this new and recent example of open feedback in action: Hale et al.’s preprint got reviewed by a community-organized group through PREreview and then the authors replied to it. 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #OpenScience #Preprints #CommunityReview

Very much looking forward to this online discussion about open research information and @barcelonadori.bsky.social, with a special focus on opportunities for libraries and publishers to work together to advance openness of research information.

📠 Why should we trust automated reasoning systems? That's the question posed in our latest article by @khinsen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy. The two reviewers generally praise the ideas but ask for more detail and share some concerns. 👇 Read the editorial assessment, reviews and full paper at MetaROR

Exemplary work by NWO in adopting @crossref.bsky.social Grant IDs! We now need broader adoption of Grant IDs by funders, publishers and individual researchers. @barcelonadori.bsky.social

Interesting! "Closed commercial databases, such as Web of Science, are not in line with our desire to work with open research information as much as possible. The UU signed the Barcelona Declaration in 2024 to this effect."

Thank you Hans for sharing your positive experience with @metaror.bsky.social, using your reviews and assessment to publish at our partner journal, Quantitative Science Studies: www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the...

Three researchers describe their the good experience they had with MetaRoR @metaror.bsky.social coordinating peer review of their preprint, and how this led quickly to a journal publication, based on the open reviews from the MetaROR process www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the... #metascience

🔓 It's great to see authors sharing their experiences with publishing on MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) — our open review platform for metascience using the publish–review–curate model: www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the...

"Given Crossref’s position as a hub at the centre of scholarly communication, providing Crossref with complete metadata furthers our mission. It facilitates the discovery and reuse of research and enables linkage to key but often overlooked outputs such as datasets and software."

Completely agree with this. One of the main challenges for preprint adoption is to design structured ways of receiving and incorporating article feedback.

"Much of what shapes a scientific paper never sees the light of day." RoRI's André Brasil writes about MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) and opening the black box of peer review in the inaugural issue of REACH by @sci-integrity.com: www.sci-integrity.com/reach-inaugu...

Depressing look at the state of commercial publishing from an editor's perspective. No easy way out of this situation.

Funding info in preprints isn’t just a formality. It’s part of the research record. 🔍 Builds trust through transparency 📑 Meets funder requirements 📈 Boosts discoverability & impact bioRxiv now has an easy way to add standardized funder info at the time of submission. openrxiv.org/funder-metad...

Funder information can now be added to bioRxiv preprints. Incorporation of funding organizations into the Research Organization Registry (ROR) means this is available as standardized metadata for articles. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

#StiEnid2025 If u here pls drop by and say hello.

Personal news! I'm taking a career break, planning to write more and do some consultancy (first gig: work with @RoRInstitute ). Read all about it https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/some-personal-news And let me know if you've any good ideas for adventures

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

MetaROR is delighted to be a partner of the STI 2025 conference www.stienid2025.org/metaror. Hope to see you later this week at the MetaROR stand at the conference venue in Bristol! @andre-brasil.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to this session at the STI 2025 conference!

This great new initiative highlights lots of interesting research and initiatives, including (on p.40) a primer on what MetaROR is doing, by @andre-brasil.bsky.social 👏 Congratulations to everyone involved for producing such a great magazine!

📣Vacancy – Platform Manager We are seeking an experienced digital platform manager to join our team who will ensure that #DOAJ continues to grow and meet the demands of our user community #DOAJVacancy #OpenAccess #DOAJTeam All details: blog.doaj.org/2025/09/01/v...

Yes, this is what finding reviewers is like, doubled with the awfulness of having to use Manuscript Central. And then poor authors write, 2 months in, asking, why isn’t my paper under review? having inferred that nothing’s being done rather than frantic efforts in the face of a system’s collapse

🚀 New study out! Together with @volkswagenstiftung.de, we’ve tested distributed peer review - a model where applicants also act as reviewers - to see how it compares with conventional panel review: researchonresearch.org/democratisin...

I've seen a fare share of APC and page charge pages by now, but this was a new level of complexity: The Astrophysical Journal calculates APCs by per "quanta" charge: journals.aas.org/article-char...

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

I've made my personal response to The National Institutes of Health Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs available to all to read here: https://doi.org/10.54900/da84n-4hx26

Consider applying if you'd like to contribute to the much-needed innovation in scientific publishing!

📢 Transparency in AI use in academia is urgently needed. In this blog post, @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social, Natalia Tsybuliak, Jaime A. Texeira da Silva & @yanasychikova.bsky.social introduce GAIDeT - a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai...