Resurrection of the betrayal: Diamond Open Access assuming a commercial model | UCT Libraries https://lib.uct.ac.za/articles/2025-12-02-resurrection-betrayal-diamond-oa-assuming-commercial-model

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s #OpenAccess landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges #DiamondOA blog.doaj.org/2025/09/29/a...

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

💥 New: How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control ✍️ Aikerim Bektemirova #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #ScholComm

10th IFLA Green Library Award 2025 Results Announced! (via @ifla.org) www.ifla.org/news/10th-if... #libraries #greenlibraries @nowatnpl.bsky.social

Meta veri, "İçeriğinizin tüketileceği, kullanılacağı, satılacağı ve diğer sistemlere ekleneceği farklı yolları düşünmeye başlarsanız, meta veriler hakkında düşünmeniz yeterlidir."

Guest Post — Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/23/g...

We showed that non-English papers receive citations largely from the same language, indicating that conservaiton evidence rarely crosses #languagebarriers. Having an English abstract = more English citations. 2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations! doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Now up on the Verso Blog: an excellent essay analyzing the political conditions on university campuses and the strategic avenues available to students (and faculty) committed to the struggle for a free Palestine

Linked data for metadata operations: An RLP Product Insights session summary, by Annette Dortmund @callmeannet.bsky.social / Hanging Together- @oclc.org hangingtogether.org/linked-data-...

Catching up with @9thprime.bsky.social’s fabulous summary of the STM annual trends info graphic. So appreciate this narrative explanation of this very dense image, packed full of insights and inspiration! (Also, can we just fast forward to 2029 please?!) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/03/n...

This is a crazy impressive but long piece on Ai impact on academic search and discovery urfistinfo.hypotheses.org/4645 by i think librarians in France (1) i was kinda planning to do a long overview like this but this makes it kinda pointless ha.

Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.

"Today, Monday 31st March 2025, is therefore a timely moment to be launching the Open Journals Collective (OJC) – an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals offered by corporate academic publishers." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

"To promote sustainable transportation, the library has established bicycle parking areas and conducts awareness campaigns on eco-friendly mobility." #EngagedLibraries www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/turk...

Aligning E-Book Offerings with Library Needs: A Call for Dialogue and Respect https://icolc.net/statements/aligning-e-book-offerings-library-needs-call-dialogue-and-respect

"The trouble with subscription models for purchasers is that they work fine until suddenly they don’t." Good fr Isaac Wink abt how research libraries trying to preserve the scholarly record aren't the same as my Spotify access--and that 🤨Clarivate move. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/05/g...

"The number of open repositories continues to grow, yet there are no systematic plans to include visible warnings to alert readers when accessing a retracted or corrected publication." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

💥New: As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks? 🧑‍💻Kevin O'Donovan (@lselibrary.bsky.social) #AcademicSky #ScholComm #Libraries

Librarians, check out "OPINION: A librarian’s summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement" by @siobhanh.bsky.social www.uksg.org/newsletter/u... #AcademicSky

New study finds large print books boost student literacy development and social-emotional health 📚 librarytechnology.org/pr/31008

Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem https://upstream.force11.org/criteria-for-bibliographic-databases/

Good illustration of many of the current problems with publishing: more work pushed onto academic editors, fewer editors handling papers, copyediting undertaken by AI., etc etc. It's all about processing papers as quickly and with as little paid human input as possible.

"Akademik yayıncıların, özellikle de kitap yayıncılarının, bibliyografik referanslar sunmalarının ve bunların akademik veri tabanlarında doğru şekilde indekslenmesini sağlamaları"