Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen

OASPA is delighted to share the recording of our lively "Beyond the Ivory Tower” webinar about the real world importance of open access today: bit.ly/4bKiHmZ Huge thanks to our speakers for showing why there has never been a better time to engage with the potential of OA as a real world benefit.

Lots of groups are responsible for the mess that open access has become, but special recognition goes to publishers creating journals to capture as many APCs from "growth areas" as possible.

New Report Urges Broader Definition of “Open Research" to Include #Arts, #Humanities and Social Science Practices (via @theul.bsky.social) www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morp... #openresearch #socialscience @morphss.bsky.social

"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"

🚀 GRAPHIA’s Call for Pilots is live! GRAPHIA is inviting industry & commercial organisations in #SSH based in the European Research Area to explore use cases for an open knowledge graph: early access, co-design, & visibility included. 👉 https://graphia-ssh.eu/call-for-pilots/#SSH #KnowledgeGraphs

Guest Post — Putting the “U” in FAIR scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/10/g...

📢 🆂🅰🆅🅴 ​ 🆃🅷🅴 ​ 🅳🅰🆃🅴!! The OASPA 2026 annual conference will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from September 21 - 23 2026. OASPA conference page: www.oaspa.org/events/annua... Get in touch to hear about being a conference sponsor. Registration will open soon - we hope to see you in Zagreb!

"We stopped thinking about the value of the research itself and we think ‘Is this publishable?’ instead. Yes, it goes to that extent." Yensi Flores Bueso at the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access on the need of #ResearchAssessmentReform

"Most of the science is publicly funded and therefore we have a social contract to ensure that everyone can benefit from science." Yensi Flores Bueso from Global Young Academy in her contribution on #DiamondOA and #ResearchAssessment during the 3rd Diamond Summit.

"If we don't get the incentives in the right direction, #DiamondOA will not happen." Henk Kummeling, chair of @coarassessment.bsky.social, at the 3rd Diamond Summit on the need to reform #ResearchAssessment.

Not saying it was me, but… it was me. 🥳

It was always going to be a hiding to nothing, but the lawsuit accusing six major publishers of anti-competitive practices has been dismissed by a judge.

Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/28/p...

🌎 Check out these newly published #DiamondOA resources from the @almasiproject.bsky.social If you work on open access, research policies, advocacy or community-led, non-profit publishing mechanisms, these are well worth your time 👇

I just filled the #ERAAct public consultation questionnaire - and you should too! ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

“We have the most expensive formats, the smallest print runs, the most demanding authors – and yet we still exist and thrive.” Kudos to all #HSS publishers by Ove Kähler from @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social at #APE2026.

"It's bad for people to not give us money," spokesperson for receiving money said.

"Open Access is not a business model, it's a prerequisite for science to work at its best." @colleencampbe11.bsky.social at #APE2026

Take part in an experiment in collective review & join our Experimental Publishing Group for an online peer review party on 29 Jan 2026!! 🥳 Together, you'll review Deep Maps: Blue Humanities alongside author @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Find out more 👉

New year, new conference. Let’s see what Academic Publishing in Europe is about! #APE2026

Our public forum at University of Cambridge is officially *sold out* Looking forward to interesting discussions around the future of publishing with @ludowaltman.bsky.social and others @peercommunityin.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social - coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

🌍 In a turbulent world, today’s keynote at #Munin2025 “Open science in a closing world” by Kenneth Ruud hit hard. Knowledge is both tool and weapon 🧠⚔️ — and trust is our strongest shield. 🤝✨ #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #FFI #KnowledgeMatters

I really enjoyed the “Zine Making & The Radical Possibilities of Publishing” workshop organised by Zoe from @radishpress.bsky.social! Coming from a very traditional academic publisher, this was widely refreshing and eye opening for me! Thanks, Zoe! #Munin2025

🚀 Ready to launch into the future of #OpenPublishing and endless opportunities? Your cutting edge professional development chance is here! PKP + SFU are offering 3 new courses that will help set you up for success in today's growing #ScholarlyPublishing world: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...

Working in the field of #scholcomm means having opportunities to learn something interesting from so many different fields of human activity ✳️ Now, for example, I am learning about drone usage in reindeer husbandry and challenges of related data management 🤔 Wow! @muninconference.bsky.social

"Metadata is something that happens TO researchers, not FOR researchers," says Mike Nason from @pkp.sfu.ca 😆 And yet, without #metadata #scholcomm is not happening 🤷‍♀️ A to-do for all of us communication professionals to highlight their importance and help researchers handle the difficulties 💪

It has been at least 5 years since I wanted to visit the @muninconference.bsky.social. And now here I am for its 20th anniversary! 🥳 So happy!

🤞 Presenting tomorrow the @craft-oa.bsky.social & @eudch.bsky.social & the emerging Czech National Capacity Center for #DiamondOA during #OpenScienceWeek2025: www.akvs.cz/akce/akce-20...

Discover the Diamond Discovery Hub - #DDH 💎 The DDH brings Europe’s Diamond OA journals together — verified, trusted, visible — part of the @eudch.bsky.social services. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty84... @doaj.bsky.social Visit the #DDH: ddh.diamas.org/en #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

“The very idea of #OpenScience is to place the society as the main beneficiary of science. #DiamondOA seems like the only model of #scholcomm that can do it.” — @dolivauribe.bsky.social at the #CRAFT_OA2025

Proud to be part of the @craft-oa.bsky.social consortium 💜

I would never believe that this can be happening right now 🤐https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/10/pen-americas-new-censorship-report-a-disturbing-normalization-of-book-bans/ #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek

"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings." Excellent!

📣 Exciting news! Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers at #CopimConference2026 to explore the future of community-led #OpenAccess books 🗓️ 26–27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University London (plus online) 📲 Registration details will be released soon

I sure will! #DiamondOA

Thank you @jadrankaos.bsky.social for emphasising the different dimensions of quality in #scholcomm. Quality is not a monolite and cannot be measured by one single metric (e.g. impact factor). Quality is contextual! #pubmet2025

At the #DIAMAS Final Conference, Pierre Mounier reminded us that Diamond Open Access is a whole ecosystem – its strength and its challenge. All parts must thrive for the whole to shine. (1/3) #DiamondOA #scholcomm #academicpublishing

Proud to be part of the wonderful European #DiamondOA community at the #DIAMAS Final conference! There is a lot to do, but with the #EDCH, we have a strong base for our work.

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