Helping a friend apply for a job at @springernature.com, which utilises MyWorkdayJobs. My friend has now lost over two hours of work on that system, and he is no longer pursuing the job. How many great people do companies lose in recruitment because they use terrible systems like this one?

The politics of knowledge infrastructure is no longer an abstract concern; it is policy. Publishers and platform providers are squarely in the crosshairs of this huge shift in legislation and policymaking. A piece on this in Scholarly Futures last week: scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/from-infra...

I saw that Marjane Satrapi died aged only 56. I only know her as the author of the Persepolis graphic novel (and the subsequent film). So I searched for more over lunch, and her family said that she had "died of sadness" over her husband's death. What a world.

The politics of knowledge infrastructure is no longer an abstract concern; it is policy. Publishers and platform providers are squarely in the crosshairs of this huge shift in legislation and policymaking. A piece on this in Scholarly Futures last week: scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/from-infra...

Open Access is not sovereignty if the infrastructure layer it sits on is dependent on commercial platforms. The OA label describes the content layer. It says nothing about the infrastructure layer. Knowledge sovereignty, Diamond OA, and open infrastructure: open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

The European Research Area (ERA) Act will create a European framework that will transform copyright, research assessment, and data-sharing. It will govern how research is published, accessed, and evaluated. If you're involved in scholarly communications, you need to give this Act your attention.

The European Research Area (ERA) Act will create a European framework that will transform copyright, research assessment, and data-sharing. It will govern how research is published, accessed, and evaluated. If you're involved in scholarly communications, you need to give this Act your attention.

Open Access is not sovereignty if the infrastructure layer it sits on is dependent on commercial platforms. The OA label describes the content layer. It says nothing about the infrastructure layer. Knowledge sovereignty, Diamond OA, and open infrastructure: open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

NEW POST | 'Morepress platform: Advancing Open Access Publishing at the University of Zadar' #OA The latest post in our series 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' is by Ivana Morić Filipović, Head of Publishing at Zadar: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/05/07/m...

💎 In PKP's Archipelago, Regional Feature: Reflections from the 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOpenAccess in conversation with Mark Huskisson (@markhusk.bsky.social) This article is packed full! India #OA landscape, #OpenJournalSystems use, important takeaways and more: pkp.sfu.ca/2026/03/31/r...

📰 Inside PKP's community newsletter, "Archipelago" * Interview w/ new Managing Director, Teresa Lee * Demystifying #FOSS w/ Alec Smecher * Reflections - 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA w/ @markhusk.bsky.social * #OpenJournalSystems OJS 3.6 And more: lists.publicknowledgeproject.org/archive/arch...

Interesting contrast on my timeline this morning from LILAC on information literacy and UKSG. Both are being held simultaneously. There are 3 vendors at @lilacconf.bsky.social, meanwhile @uksg.bsky.social is a joint publisher and library conference (and those who supply them with tech and services).

Europe is getting serious about #OpenScience and #DiamondOA at the launch of Open Research Europe at CERN. A two-year development of Open Journal Systems (OJS) from Public Knowledge Project, @pkp.sfu.ca that will be fully and freely available to the global community of 55,000 journals via OJS3.6

The complete lack of understanding about what it means to establish research, data, and scientific sovereignty amongst senior members of the UK's research community and government is shocking. Their belief is that they own that knowledge and are protecting it from future AI and big tech threats.

→ Reminder: less than a week before Érudit Town Hall⁠! ⏱️ Join us to learn more about our activities over the past year, the evolution of our team, and our vision for the future of #OpenAccess. ⁠📆 February 26, 1 pm (EST)⁠ 📍 Online 👉 Register: apropos.erudit.org/erudit-town-... Come chat with us!

At the #CopimConference we're talking about limited resources to pay for funding OA. Do we rephrase the contributions to OA as a transaction for our paymasters and institutional SLTs? eBook collections of 700k are bought because they give access to the books, you get 17m+ articles through OJS alone.

I'll be attending the Scholarly Social in London ahead of the COPIM Conference and to celebrate the end of the Researcher to Reader Conference. See you at Mables if you're attending either event or just in the neighbourhood @copim.bsky.social @r2rconf.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/schol...

Starting in 5 minutes. A recording will be made available later this week if you can't make it to the webinar today.

A free and open source editor able to export JATS XML and HTML has been a long time coming. Today's update on the @pkp.sfu.ca roadmap includes the introduction of end-to-end production workflows within the journal environment for OJS3.6 🙌 [8amPST/4pm GMT/ 5pm CST]. www.eventbrite.ca/e/pkps-devel...

I'm doing a joint task where I returned to using @microsoft.com Word for the first time in ages. What an utter pile of [insert word here] that software is. Why on earth do your institutions spend so much money for what is, at best, a very average program? It's awful, crashing, buggy, clunky... yuk.

I mean... you would, wouldn't you?

Pragya Chaube is absolutely smashing it at the Global #DiamondOA Summit. Expressing her deep frustration at the barriers that the academic incentives system creates for early-career researchers and researchers worldwide. A gifted, dynamic, and erudite communicator cutting through clear frustration.

Devika Madalli describes the Bharat Open Science Platform during her One Nation, One Subscription presentation at the Global #DiamondOA Summit. BOSP is the new OA publishing infrastructure by INFLIBNET for Indian Journals based on #OJS from PKP (@pkp.sfu.ca) for open research for all Indian research

Tracy Creagh (QUT) from the Australasian Diamond Community of Practice assesses OA initiatives across ANZ at the #DiamondOA Summit. Stressing the importance of OASPA, DOAJ, ALMASI, and DIAMAS amongst many others @oaspa.bsky.social @creaght.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social @almasiproject.bsky.social

Vanessa Proudman introduces the ALMASI Project to the Global DiamondOA Summit. A landscape scan of Africa, Europe, and Latin America indicates this critical infrastructure operates on $6m per year, calling for better support for these tools & services @almasiproject.bsky.social @operaseu.bsky.social

Loving Zoom's captions at this #DiamondOA conference. I quote: "Read before. And so, I mean? And let's say, right? Okay, well, my relative stress on them. Well, please. She now said, ah! dysactic. rational. vocation. Okay, that was your lap. On an array platform with Zoom. Exists okay for ourselves"

Anuradha Agrawal (ICAR) – Agricultural research needs to be shared for the wide harvest of humanity ...the current dominant model of scholarly communications builds walls where we build bridges. We aim to dismantle those walls to enable a true open sharing of knowledge for the public good #DiamondOA

Arbain Arbain, Chairman of Relawan Jurnal Indonesia, explains Why Indonesia Matters Today: the rise of open journal systems at #DiamondOA Summit in Bengaluru, India. 28,000 journals and counting. My blog from February 2023 in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social covers this - share.google/jDbTnBnYGTN5...

And we're off. The 3rd Global Diamond Open Access Summit begins in Bengaluru, India. #DiamondOA

Hey, that's me! See you at the Global Summit in India? A quick bounce from the librarians and publishers in Bangkok at #CharlestonAsia onto the policy makers at the 3rd Global Summit on DiamondOA #DOASummit in Bengaluru. Fun times, tiring times, but honoured to be here in the company of good people.

Goodnight Bangkok, good morning Bengaluru. Bleary eyed day ahead of sorting the suitcase and doing the laundry.

PKP joins the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access! 🧩 Mon 2 Feb Concurrent Workshop 1: Publishing Platforms and Services for Diamond OA - diamondoasummit.org Come say hi to @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca and @markhusk.bsky.social! ▶️ Live: www.youtube.com/@IIHRMM #DiamondOA #DOASummit2026

#ERAAct #PositionPaper | 📢 Following the European Commission's consultation on the ERA Act, OPERAS has just released a position paper with a powerful message: Don't let commercial interests capture the research agenda. 👉Learn more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/9636

Madhura Amdekar from @crossref.bsky.social launches the Crossref day in Bangkok, Thailand. A lot to get through today, with @abartell.bsky.social up next with the importance of quality metadata. Already lots of questions and comments from the community.

On my way to the Crossref event in Bangkok. The air quality may be declining and it may be a little too hot (even at 7am) for the average North European like me, but I'm really looking forward to spending the day with the Thai librarians and @crossref.bsky.social colleagues on behalf of @pkp.sfu.ca.

Continuing my career-long habit and preference of not staying in the conference hotel (for costs alone, if not just a little separation), it always brings an enjoyable commute with the locals. Although my arrival in the high aircon after the humid 34C means I'm a hot mess for at least the first hour

I received a job description for a role a recruiter would like me to consider. It's a senior leadership role (insert fake blush emoji for a self deprecating LinkedIn style humblebrag) and a main quality required is, "Must be comfortable using Excel and Powerpoint." For the 1st time I feel qualified.

The #CharlestonAsia Conference comes at a good time due to not travelling to events in the USA. I'm excited to kick off 2026 in Thailand as Asia is a leader in the creation of open access knowledge. This will be a conference of listening, learning, and building the foundations for collaboration.

The last OPERAS Conference was excellent. I'm delighted that the organisers have forgotten how painful it was to host conferences and decided to do another one. @operaseu.bsky.social is a place of real community and innovative ideas that is hard to rival anywhere in European scholarly communication

🎆 What a way to close out 2025 as we celebrate PKP's Founder, John Willinsky, and his appointment to the Order of Canada for more than 25 years of dedication to #OpenAccess and #PublicKnowledge! -> www.gg.ca/en/media/new... Image from Muttercraig CC BY-SA at uottawa-mpsp.fandom.com/wiki/Order_o...

Reading year-end posts from some open initiatives has been extremely encouraging. But, I've also started to get a feel for which of those initiatives have signed up to and reflect the #POSI principles (openscholarlyinfrastructure.org), especially lobbying to cement their own narrow self-interest.

The inaugural article of Reviews of Economic Literature is fittingly titled "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community" It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

Is Zoom just terrible for everyone this past month or two, or just me? I'm on a fully paid-up plan and running 128mbps/23mbps minimums on fully up-to-date versions of Mac OS and Zoom. But the image is laggy and about 4fps. Incoming sound is good but it is broken when I'm speaking. Just shocking.

"Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a wide range of contributors to showcase the range and diversity of his enduring legacy."

Very excited for @craft-oa.bsky.social #CRAFT_OA2025 Tuesday Plenary highlights on #OpenJournalSystems Diamond Plugins & OJS Core Feature Development: #GDPR, #Multilingualism and Better #Metadata - & so much more! Program: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con... Streaming: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word! pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative

I couldn't agree more. This is the top leadership role at **humble brag** one of the most impactful organizations in #scholcomm. Reach out if you have questions! (cc #OASPA2025)

Probably the best role in open scholarly publishing. pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...