It is nice to see a bit of good news out there (sometimes you have to dig for it).

It's that time of year again! Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 Conference Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, and accessible […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

Anne: budget uncertainty is possibly even worse than budget cuts. Makes it harder to commit to some of the smaller committments, particularly as they are easier to get out of than the parts of our locked in budgets. Need to stop multi year deals so we have budget flexibility. #OASPA2025

We all know that publishing #OpenAccess increases citations and views, but there is also evidence that OA content has helped to shorten PhD studies from 6 years to 4 years in France. - Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri #OASPA2025

CHALLENGE in China - researchers are pursing high impact journals not OA journals. There is a white list – containing about 1600 OA journals. These are the ones Chinese scholars want to publish in. This is an issue that will hinder full OA in China. #OASPA2025

USEFUL breakdown of the process a large organisation underwent to adopt rights retention - presented by Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social at #OASPA2025 screen grab here but better version at www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...

Poster presentation done. Only 5 mins but almost more daunting then a full session. Introducing EMBL's RRS to #OASPA2025

Good thread 👇 on Hannah Hope's talk at #OASPA2025

SHIFT: Wellcome 2021 OA policy had unexpected result- policy was perpetuating existing inequality in research ecosystem. So they added preprints to versions of articles accepted, create space for institutional rights retention, redirect funds from TAs towards wider ecosystem. Hannah Hope #OASPA2025

After Wellcome changed their #openaccess policy in 2021, they saw that publishers modify their workflows to detect WT funded papers and closed certain routes to publication. They also gave exceptions to "prestigious" authors while ECRs were not given the same opportunities 🤯 #OASPA2025

Question about why don't we just have article level metrics? With the introduction of social media, this would be easily gameable. Single metrics are a fallacy we need a cloud of different metrics to assess. - Bernd Pulverer

What publishers can do to help change research assessment; Focus on contribution instead of authorship, acknowledge that the paper doesn't show the whole research process, focus on process not results - Yensi Flores Bueso, University College Cork & Global Young Academy #OASPA2025

Strongly agree: We need to make OA “undeniable,” to the point where it sells itself. (Adapted from Stefan Tochev, MDPI) #OASPA2025

To sum up some of the feelings in the panel of OA APC based publishers: all are struggling to get support from funders and libraries to push through barriers, feels like you are being penalised for getting their first. - Catriona MacCallum #OASPA2025

There seems to be a general agreement that publishers need to be better at describing what they do and what their services are to provide evidence for their pricing. But they also need to talk to customers to ensure these are the services they actually want. #OASPA2025

And we have wifi... #OASPA2025

Always love a good word cloud. #OSFair25

"We will never compete with the big corporations but we ask what will happen if we weren't there." Suzanne Dumouchel, OPERAS #OSFair25

"We are not training researchers well on how to use AI. They have NO verification habits. We need to train them. In China they are introducing AI from first grade in school. We need to think collectively about this new skill set." @nataliamanola.bsky.social #OSfair2025

As someone who studied history, I love when a presentation explains the historical context. I used to do that in my intro to OA explaining the history of publishing. I think some people thought I was crazy, but I enjoyed it 😊 #OSFair25

There was a comment that it is a myth that everyone wants to publish in Nature and Science. It's so 5 years ago. I would love to believe that is true but researchers I work with overwhelmingly publish with the big publishers. Haven't quite convinced them to change...yet. #OSFair2025

SCOAP3 is a similar model as Open Research Europe but in a niche area. ORE will be able to create an ecosystem, available to everyone, funded by a community of the willing - Alex Kohls, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) #OSFair2025

Part of my intro to schol comms course at UBC we had to set up a journal on OJS to better understand what kind of things scholars had to consider like peer review, copyright, metadata when setting up a journal. It was a very useful assignment that has stuck with me. #OSFair2025

If it wasn't for open science the world wouldn't have the world wide web. 🤯 #OSFair2025

Also shout out for the allergen friendly food! Best gluten-free bread at a conference I've ever had #OSFair2025

Dina Petranovic, YES, barriers to #OpenScience generally relate to lack of scalability. The lift is big and not all researchers/depts have the means/knowledge/space to to implement these policies. We need more consistent/efficient ways to implement best practices. #OSFair2025

Are policymakers loosing touch with those that have to adhere to the policies? Hmm... will need to reflect on this question as I am pushing through a new open science policy at my institution. #OSFair2025

#OSFair2025 Q&A: Are policy makers losing touch with the researchers who have to implement the policies. (SR - great point, researchers are the least represented at these gatherings).

Dina Petranovic: leadership has to be interested in pushing the agenda even when it's uncomfortable. Ex. innovation vs. research security. Cybersecurity has to be balanced with #OpenScience priorities; must reject intimidation and politicization where possible. #OSFair2025

Minister of Science: open everything Minister of Defence: keep it closed - Dina Petranovic Reality is that open can be more secure as closed can be more easily manipulated. - Felix Reda #OSFair2025

Equitable access to knowledge is not a privilege but necessary for progress - everyone should have the opportunity - Yusuf Baran, Izmir Institute of Technology #OSFair2025

In #OSFair2025 Felix Reda from GitHub stressing the importance of #opensource software as a key part of #openscience, and the cross policy-infrastructure dialogue that must take place. @eosc-everse.bsky.social

We need to pay attention to infrastructure maintenance, we need to focus on the infrastructure that makes open access possible - Felix Reda, Github Makes me think of @europepmc.org

Really interesting that a study done during the Human Genome Project compared the impact between publicly funded shared data vs private data. Unsurprisingly, the impact of the shared data far outweighed that of the closed data. Always good to be able to present the evidence. #OSFair25

Let the fun begin #OpenScienceFair25

"At punctum books, we have no objection to our books being included in such shadow libraries [...] but we do object to the commercial reuse of our publications by multibillion-dollar corporations without proper compensation for both our press and authors."

I did a thing... What counts in science? www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...

The UK Government have to say this technologically illiterate nonsense because they've committed to both a strong "AI" agenda for the UK and not acknowledging that private water companies in England have failed to fix decaying water storage infrastructure. We all know this but they /can't/ say it.

Katherine Hughes on EMBL’s Open Science Policy: EMBL's policy can serve as a model policy and an example of #OpenScience in practice #ChooseOpenWebinar for live updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky @embl.org @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social

Can AI train on my openly licensed research? Do I retain copyright if I choose a CC BY license? Why can’t I reuse a figure from my own paper? Get the answers in a webinar with Creative Commons, #EuropePMC & EMBL 🗓️ 9 Jul ⏰ 15:00 UTC 🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪

I am *trying* to learn Python (emphasis on the word trying) and I was recently asked what programming language would I recommend to a library student. I would be interested to know what other people think? Also, if you have any advice on training material for python - please let me know!

I am preparing a big project for today and I am just stuck on the first step.

@alicecann.bsky.social now talking about the project we're doing on green & gold oa citation advantage. #DARTS9

Who is going to step in posting for @alicecann.bsky.social as she presents at #DARTS9? Looking forward to hearing about Becoming a researcher librarian!

True even when speaking to people. I am constantly reminding myself to define the jargon (librarians love their jargon).

First #DARTS9 talk done - lots to think about. I love attending a conference where I feel motivated - so far so good.

@lizziegadd.bsky.social saying "Find your people". I'm really enjoying that my systematic review team is all here! Lovely to see each other in person rather than just zoom! @alicecann.bsky.social @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social #DARTS9

Good piece from @richove.bsky.social on the threat of the US govt to libraries, archives and thus knowledge on.ft.com/3FbaZ7h