Lyrasis, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Center for Library Programs and the California Digital Library have been awarded a grant to advance community-governed, open access scholarly publishing in the United States. Read more about the #DiamondOA mapping project here, https://ow.ly/QCKC50Xu6vU#DiamondOA

🧰The OA Journals Toolkit provides guidance for new and established #OpenAccess journals to navigate the rapidly changing #ScholarlyPublishing landscape @oaspa.bsky.social 🆕New content on Accessibility Remediation Resources has just been released: www.oajournals-toolkit.org/getting-star...

Starting now: It’s Time to Rally: Stakeholder Engagement in the U.S. Diamond Open Access Landscape “Diamond open access did not grow in spite of decentralization -- it grew because of it.” @lalair.bsky.social #chsconf2025 #charleston2025

A (cont'd) "We're trying to get up to the standards of other parts of the globe." "We're figuring out who we are" #chsconf2025

"Diamond open access leads with its values, and as you can see, the values make a very pleasing word cloud." The value of diamond #openaccess, however, is much harder to put in a word cloud. @camitchell.bsky.social #chsconf2025 #charleston2025

"If we want to see diamond #openaccess flourish as more than just part of a patchwork... we will have to rally together. No one is coming to build this for us. The future of diamond open access in the United States will depend on the choices we make." @lalair.bsky.social #chsconf2025 #charleston2025

The new OACIP Journals are here!!! Every new round reminds me how much community, trust, and shared commitment matter in building sustainable open access publishing. Deep deep gratitude to all the editors, libraries, and partners who keep showing up for this work. You make this possible.

Lyrasis is hiring for 2 new (US-based preferred) remote roles on the CSCI team! Support open access and community-driven publishing. Apply by June 25: Community Engagement Strategist, OACIP: tinyurl.com/2ebm2kse Strategist, Content & Scholarly Communication Initiatives: tinyurl.com/3va9y3bs

Lyrasis invites institutions to support @leverpress.bsky.social, a library-led, Diamond open access monograph publishing program. By joining, libraries become part of a growing community dedicated to advancing open access book publishing! Learn more here, ow.ly/NssC50Vi95S. #OpenAccess

And to instead spend our funds supporting non-profit and academy-based publishers who share our values and deliver value. But I don't blog anymore, so this will do.

I would suggest that maybe this budget crisis is the time to finally say NO to spending precious library dollars to fill the pockets of shareholders of for-profit publishers who routinely report stupid high profits margins ..

The first books in @leverpress.bsky.social's Re-Editions series are out this year! The first (May) is the archival manuscript of José Villarreal's groundbreaking Chicano novel Pocho, originally called Our Little Life! The second (Nov) is a selection of Chinese children's primers.

Congratulations to @projectmuse.bsky.social on meeting its #sustainability goal for 2025! IReL is delighted to have played a small role in this achievement by providing our members with access to #ProjectMUSE and benefiting its #SubscribeToOpen initiative. #S2O

I love this idea so much.

If you have connections with universities, foundations, or other groups that might be interested in partnering reach out to @sciencewriters.org and @sciencewriting.bsky.social. We are committed to making this conference happen!

US Bioethics colleagues: I'm talking with Cdn bioethics colleagues about how we can support you, even if it's only by providing a space for free speech, such as the Canadian Journal of Bioethics (cjb-rcb.ca). And if you have to publish anonymously, we can do that as well.

Friends and colleagues: if you have work that has previously been made available via #PubMed or other federal infrastructure, please find other ways to share it. For instance: KC Works is a non-profit, community-governed repository (built on top of CERN's InvenioRDM). works.hcommons.org

As individuals it’s difficult to get things in motion, as a group we can... Science is currently being attacked in multiple ways in the US right now. Don’t let this happen. And we in Europe should not let this happen either. Consider signing! Read further: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dear President Zelensky, As it is likely that our paths will never cross in person, I could not let this day go by without trying to reach you here. I come to you humbly as an American citizen who is thoroughly and completely embarrassed of our leaders. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...

Subscribe to Open isn't perfect (IMO), but it is great to see no-fee diamond OA models succeeding and being praised. These are the future.

I am so excited by this achievement! Congratulations to @projectmuse.bsky.social and all the publishers that participated.

We're putting the finishing touches to a little one-day meeting at Cambridge on community-led publishing where we'll explore the diamond OA and community-led journal landscape at Cambridge. It's on May 13th at the West Hub in Cambridge -- more soon!

We've reached 40,000 #OAbooks in the OAPEN Library! 🥳 The transition to #openaccess for books is far from complete, but this milestone is proof great things are happening because of passionate people who want to see knowledge open to all 🙌 Browse the collection today: library.oapen.org

Coming later this year from @leverpress.bsky.social! First book in our film|minutes series: leverpress.org/filmminutes

New Roanoke College poll of Virginia out this morning finds Donald Trump at his highest level of disapproval in either term — 59%. www.roanoke.edu/documents/rc... Just 37% approve, he’s 22 points under water. Virginia elections including for Governor and Attorney General are just over 8 months away

Want to learn more about @standupforscience.bsky.social ? I spoke with three of the lead organizers for a Q&A you can read here: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

Psst! @scquarterly.bsky.social Volume 30, Issue 4, is available to read for FREE 📢 Thanks to enrollment in @projectmuse.bsky.social Subscribe to Open (S20) program, all of the journal's content in 2025 will be published Open Access 🔓 Read for free: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54280

I’m joining the Data Rescue Project to help preserve at risk federal data. They’re also on Bluesky @datarescueproject.org Fight back on all fronts with whatever skills you bring. No fight is too small

Can someone in my home state of Virginia pick up the baton?

For the people who may be on the fence: Happy to chat about my experience leading KY. Core leadership created a checklist of what to do, which helps keep priorities organized. A lot of us here already are kind and down to help you make it happen. #StandUpForScience

Trying to get the word out to colleagues in SC - still need a leader! I'm going to #standupforscience2025 in DC on March 7 because science helps everyone, regardless of their political views.

Have you ever struggled to quantify the benefit of federal funding for research on a local level? ☀️ Here's a great resource for that 👉 www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... Focuses on the NIH, & gives you state-level information about awards funded, economic activity & jobs supported!

🚨 Looking for more volunteers to help us Stand Up for Science in Pittsburgh! Know someone interested? Send them to our Airtable! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

Anyone in Kansas want to partner up and set one up in Topeka? DM me or whatever. Let’s not be absent from the battle.

Yes, but we can't wait! #NoTimeForSilence! Join the over 1900 individuals and organizations and sign & share the open Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship! tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f Join a March 7th @standupforscience.bsky.social demonstration!

Fantastic to see @standupforscience.bsky.social events being planned nationwide!!!! Please attend your local #standupforscience event standupforscience2025.org & sign the open Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship! #NoTimeForSilence tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

We need volunteers for states that don’t yet have events! I’m one of the organizers in CA and can answer questions about how the process has been! #standupforscience

“This may signal the moment to increase (international) collaboration towards OA initiatives and collective action…This strategy may prove to be transformative if we take this as an opportunity to radically explore alternative models to protect equitable access.” www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

Folks, I'll be here hoping to secure more signatories to our declaration to #defendresearch from censorship, intimidation, re-segregation, and erasure. If you're going, DM me. If you haven't signed yet, please SIGN AND SHARE: #scienceforall #openscience docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sign the open Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship! Sign now! Share everywhere! Help make this action go viral! #scholcomm #academisky #academichatter #sciencesky #openscience tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

A group of scholcomm activists, alarmed by the Trump administration’s directives curtailing academic freedom of speech & inquiry, will soon share a declaration against US gov censorship in research, calling for people/orgs in scholarly/adjacent communities to actively condemn & resist such actions.

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 […]

Do not give up.

The research community needs to prioritize community-owned #OpenInfrastructure. Last week's events highlight the risks of relying on single funding sources. Our latest blog post explores how we can work together to build a more sustainable future for research. investinopen.org/blog/call-to...

A vitally important corollary, which is that it takes a lot of people--imperfectly, bc people!--working together to make things better. Again, imperfectly--bc people. But this is why the endless emphasis on individuals (mostly men) in history is so bad for us. We overlook how much collectives do.

If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone: osf.io/preprints OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.

Great to see that, among many other excellent works, a @leverpress.bsky.social title is on the BSFA Award longlist for Non-Fiction. That would be Stefan Ekman's groundbreaking study Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic (doi.org/10.3998/mpub...). Please consider voting for the book!

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Let people know, download your own copies. Don't let this digital book burn continue. #Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI