And another keynote! www.horizondiamond.nl

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

Agenda draft for the Netherlands Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre Year 2025. Open for comments and additions: zenodo.org/records/1493...

More diamond open access awareness happening!

Researchers, please consider filling in this Survey for the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center "exploring the motivations and challenges that early-career researchers face when engaging with DOA publishing." erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

who says that science doesn't generate profit?

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Please consider signing up for change in scientific publishing

Remarkable long thread by @jeremymberg.bsky.social , ex-editor of Science, explaining how the sausage is made at AAAS . I hope he'll post this somewhere as a blog or article as these long threads are a bit tedious to scroll through and all too transitory.

Were still collecting pledges to make room for community-led academic publishing! Please sign, and publish one of your articles in 5 years with a diamond open access journal. A baby step! And you only need to do it when we have a critical mass of 500!

Commercial publishers have been happily corrupting the scientific process for profits. It is really time to organize ourselves differently

Funny that there was just one hold out who decided not to resign. retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...

Nu ook op VOXweb www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/bezui...

So what if you feel that pledges for individual actions are doomed to fail when it comes to changing for-profit scholarly publishing? Then we can also help lobby for change of investments! Sign this and support a step in the right direction openscienceretreat.eu/call-to-comm...

Concerns are growing about the reliance on a small group of commercial publishers and the high costs involved, which threaten accessibility for less well-funded regions in the world. NWO is therefore advocating for a more equitable and diverse publishing landscape.

Several Dutch academic stakeholders take an important step towards the sustainability of Openjournals.nl as a national platform offering (technical) publishing solutions for diamond #openaccess journals. Read more about it here: openjournals.nl/index.php/20...

"The University will not renew its 'big deal' subscription to Elsevier, which expires on 31 December 2024." Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year... www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...

Now also English translation (author copy): wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa... Dutch: wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa... Online copy: archive.ph/bfn1n

This aged pretty well. #diamond #openaccess

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...

This is alarming

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So the eXodus is begun it seems. Can we academics do the same for academic publishing?

A starter pack on #openscience. Just some of the great researchers and experts I follow around here who are promoting open science/scholarship/research: go.bsky.app/U46tU6

asapbio.org/publishyourr... Several publishers "acknowledge that reviewers are welcome to publish their reviews alongside preprints..." [+ caveats]. Any editors/journals in #econsky, policy, & quant soc. sci willing to consider this? --> @asapbio.bsky.social @freeourknowledge.bsky.social

The science of animal culture has exploded over the past 25 years, and I’ll be talking about some of the implications tomorrow at the Cambridge Center for Animal Rights Law. It’s online so everyone can join. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kristin-an...

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Amazing! Funding for flipping journals to Diamond Open Access! www.nwo.nl/en/news/fund...

Looks like that "non-collusiveness" of the academic publishing oligopoly is going to get tested! www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac...

freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c... #CogSci2024

Were steadily reaching our goal! Come sign this pledge with us, publish one (only one!) article over 5 years in a community-led non-profit financially transparent academic publisher, i.e., diamond open access. Sign here freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...