📣The Diamond Discovery Hub has officially launched during the final confernce in #Göttingen. @eudch.bsky.social Join the #DDH today : ddh.diamas.org/en First photo by Martin Liebetruth.

Bring on the revolution 🤺 #OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess @oaaustralasia.bsky.social

OERs offer a practical, impactful way to widen access and rethink inclusion ... It means embedding openness into strategy, not treating it as a side project or fringe benefit @lseimpactblog.bsky.social #OpenAccess blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025? OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 2 👇 Community ownership: relation, reciprocity and responsibility 🗓️ Wednesday October 22 oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025? OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 1 👇 The politics of knowledge: Who controls the story and who has access to it? 🗓️ Tuesday October 21 oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions | www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...

🌏Looking forward to #OAWeek2025 - a diverse international and regional array of speakers this year @oaaustralasia.bsky.social

So - how can we sustain Diamond #OpenAccess journals? Well, here's an idea 👇💡 In Brazil, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina published a 'Normative Ordinance' that officially regulates the workload for professors who work as editors of their journals. periodicos.bu.ufsc.br/portaria-nor...

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social Publishers increasingly require (and academics are increasingly willing) to acknowledge and credit the role played by AI in their research papers blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

@beneltham.bsky.social and the closure of @meanjin.bsky.social “If an institution this venerable and important can be killed off with the click of a mouse, few cultural organisations in the country can feel safe.” theconversation.com/the-decision...

STATEMENT: Time to stop the undermining of library rights: IFLA statement on contract override www.ifla.org/news/time-to... The Statement ... calls on governments to protect limitations and exceptions ... & look at how to ensure libraries benefit from effective protections against unfair contracts

@samuelmoore.org explores the "importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing" #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComms Publishing Beyond the Market 📚https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market

Excellent overview of the rise of scholarly publishing in the #GlobalSouth 👇 "The future of scholarly publishing does not lie in reproducing the prestige-driven models of the past, but in building systems that reflect the world’s full intellectual diversity" #OpenAccess doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

This is why it doesn't make sense to make decisions about culture on "purely financial grounds" (quote from a university administrator). Meanjin is a critical part of Australian literary culture, an outrage it is being shuttered so unceremoniously.

Who's noticed the new #DiamondOA icon on Scimago SJR Journal and Country Rankings? Identifying Diamond journals as a specific type of #OpenAccess ...

Registration is open for the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference, organised by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library - www.un.org/en/library/O... It's online and in a friendlier-than-usual timezone! When? 16-18 October, 2025 #scholcomms #skybrarians

🆕The release of the full special issue on diverse experiences and expectations in the #OpenAccess landscape over the last decade - Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/issue/1...

🌏Open Access Australasia now on @bsky.app ✔️A Membership supported and driven organisation ✔️Committed to advocating for and raising awareness of #OpenScholarship #OpenAccess in Australia & Aotearoa NZ ✔️Building capacity and expertise ✔️Collaborating nationally and internationally 🔗 oaaustralasia.org

Here it is! My first article in library and information science (i.e. my day job)! It was an absolute pleasure writing with @jaymam.bsky.social and Tove Lemberget, and I really do think green open access is a powerful way of making research accessible! doi.org/10.1177/0340...

This looks amazing! Bravo #OAA for taking the lead to discuss the future of Institutional Repositories. 9.00am – 4pm Friday 17 October 2025, QUT In-person, no registration fee, travel and accommodation at own cost. #scholcomms #openaccess #skybrarians #academicsky oaaustralasia.org/examining-op...

🔊 We want your feedback on new PKP + @sfupublishing.bsky.social #OpenPublishing courses! Courses: * Making Knowledge Public * #JournalManagement and Editing * Technologies and Infrastructure for #AcademicPublishing Survey open 'till Aug 8 - please share! pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/07/w... #OpenAccess

@tuwhera.bsky.social now hosts 21 peer-reviewed, Diamond #OpenAccess journals - a sustained an ongoing commitment to inclusive and equitable publishing practices 💎

Fortunate and timely to hear from @joannaball.bsky.social today - speaking to the #library community in Australasia 👉insights into DOAJ’s current work and the role libraries can play in advancing equitable scholarly publishing @doaj.bsky.social

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme

@dannykay68.bsky.social trying to make sense of it all: “the implications of current geopolitical, financial and technological volatility? What impact will all of this have on the relationship between libraries and publishers, and libraries and their users?” upstream.force11.org/trying-to-ma...

This is deeply sad news, especially for all the staff who have been immediately laid off. Please get in contact, and we'll all do our best to share your stories and try to help get you placed in a new role. PubPub had many exciting ideas and still... funding. www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...

Our friends at the European Diamond Capacity Hub (@eudch.bsky.social) are looking for EDCH Advocates! If you are passionate about Diamond Open Access, community engagement, and strengthening scholarly communication infrastructures in Europe – this is for you! forum.diamas.org/t/join-the-m...

Join the MJA's Editor-in-Chief Professor Ginny Barbour as she shares her insights into who and what to trust in this new age of academic publishing. Outsmarting scammers in research and publishing: tips from a battle-hardened editor QUT Gardens Theatre 16 July

The N8 Research Partnership has today released a landmark statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarly research is published

The world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality Pls share our new paper & Call to Action

With open access conferences happening on the other side of the globe, we thought we'd celebrate OA in the lands down under with a link to the OA Toolkit for Aotearoa NZ Researchers. While only a basic tool, it's completely customisable for individual institutions oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

Understanding threats to reproducibility in published research and, importantly, how to protect research #OpenAccess #OpenScience #PaperMills @jabyrnesci.bsky.social - hosted by Australian Reproducibility Network @ginnybarbour.bsky.social and AIMOS

Comprehensive review of the value of the Open Access Tracking Project @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy " ... potential as a sustainable and community-curated knowledge hub, and significance as a living archive of the OA movement." #OpenAccess #ScholComms katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

The only scholarly journal publishing exclusively in Sámi 👉Inclusion = making Indigenous voices visable #DOAJ

Today's Asia-Pacific launch of @dorassessment.bsky.social of the practice guide to implementing responsible research assessment (Project TARA) hosted by @ginnybarbour.bsky.social action-oriented resources and examples from across the world ➡️change is possible #ScholComms sfdora.org/2025/04/14/l...

This, apparently, is what the "remaking" of American cultural institutions looks like ... @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Host your open and uncensored research in more than one place and preferably more than one country." — @petersuber.bsky.social offers advice for protecting research from censorship Read his full interview with @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social here: bit.ly/4jZVZYR #DefendResearch

In 2025, #DOAJ will spotlight Diamond #OpenAccess journals that we index, highlighting ongoing efforts to enhance the visibility and impact of no-fee, community-led journals 💎 #DiamondOA #ScholComm #DIAMAS #CRAFTOA #ALMASI #OJS blog.doaj.org/2025/04/15/d...

From Aotearoa New Zealand, the experience of Tuwhera Open Access, " ... a shared open infrastructure is the most appropriate way to ensure the sustainability of diamond journals in Aotearoa" #diamond #OpenAccess #RadicalLibrarianship @pkp.sfu.ca @doaj.bsky.social doi.org/10.31274/jls...

Reclaiming academic publishing: @ojcollective.bsky.social is a community-led, no-APC #openaccess alternative to corporate publishers + transformative agreements/ big deals. Fund #diamondOA. Cancel TAs & big deals. Let’s build something better, together: www.openlibhums.org/news/795/

Some context here from my years of work on the Open Library of Humanities. Open Journals Collective is the opportunity we need to spread no-APC OA widely. Cancel Transformative Agreements (which aren't working). Use that money to fund this package of hundreds of OA journals. eve.gd/2025/04/02/o...

A serious effort actually to "transform" to OA publishing, as opposed to the failure of "transformative agreements". The idea is to reinvest cancelled library subscriptions into OA titles... at scale. Hundreds of journals at once, without APCs. Several publishers involved. #UKSG2025

An important initiative and equitable alternative to current TAs and R&P agreements 👏

From @lseimpactblog.bsky.social the UK uni funding crisis (and the effect on #AcademicLibraries) and the Open Journals Collective as an alternative model for scaling open access to journal publications - I would argue for this type of initiative in Australia also 💡 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Scholarly publishing in Oz 🦘has a rich history (including #OA journals) Hamid Jamali & Simon Wakeling have been researching in this space for some time - they highlight a strong reliance on voluntary editorial work and concerns for sustainability @ginnybarbour.bsky.social doi.org/10.1515/opis...

@emiliacarabell.bsky.social Lucy Montgomery & Karl Huang: Research with taxpayers' money 👇 "Yet there is often little alignment between the profit imperatives of large, multinational publishers and the expectations of the communities and funding bodies ..." theconversation.com/academic-pub...

Robust peer review of academic research needs a tune-up 🛠️useful perspectives from Gail Wilson #ScholComms #PeerReview theconversation.com/peer-review-...

With digital publishing and the rise of open research and demand for #OpenAccess (and with growing criticism of commercial publishing) institutionally based publishing is making a long-overdue comeback @lsepress.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/six-r...

Starting a new #scholarly journal and creating measurable imact is challenging From @scholasticahq.bsky.social how to increase impact (Spoilers: there's more to it than JIFs ... and #OpenAccess expands access) bit.ly/3DVgnWL