New preprint on the drain that for-profit publishers place on the scientific ecosystem. We also point out that, though it's often presented as a global problem, it's actually a Global North problem: there are parts of the world with strong diamond #OA non-profit alternatives arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

Recommendations for Scholarly Publishers and Journal Editors to Mitigate Barriers to Open Access Publishing for Researchers with Weak Institutional Ties https://zenodo.org/records/17418990

Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool! Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...

Rigorous, ethical and timely research is being conducted beyond the walls of traditional academia - it deserves equitable opportunities for dissemination. This set of recommendations aims to make scholarly communication system more inclusive and epistemically just blog.tib.eu/2025/10/23/r...

Did you miss the LIS Research seminar on "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"? If so, never fear, the recording is now out! I'd really recommend giving it a listen. doi.org/10.52843/cas... #Library #openaccess #LISResearch #Librarian

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... * yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

🚀 How do journal systems shape open metadata in Crossref? 📊 Kramer, de Jonge & Korzec analyze 150 publishers – tech vs. commercial choices? 🔍 Read more: septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SC... 🌍❄️ #Munin2025 #OpenScience #Metadata #Crossref

Advocacy Kit for Open Science And EU project (Skills4EOSC) has created an Advocacy Kit to empowers users to promote Open Science skills to policymakers and funders to help foster steady policy support.

Two weeks left! The draft Open Access Business Processes Recommended Practice is available for public comment. All in the information community are invited to review the document, view comments made by others, and provide feedback through October 17: www.niso.org/standards-co... #OA #standards

Redefining publishing: why we’re moving beyond the article www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi... The current publishing system doesn’t reflect how science is done – or how it should be assessed, writes Iain Hrynaszkiewicz of @plos.org

📚New book chapter published with @intermediocl.bsky.social and C. Rovira Factors for enhancing visibility in digital repositories: Metadata quality, interoperability standards, persistent identifiers, and SEO-GEO optimization doi.org/10.3145/cuvi... This work is part of @cuvicom.bsky.social

Preprint: specific subtypes of epistemic injustice where academic science interfaces with Indigenous knowledge in the BC area, targeted by epistemic transformative justice in 3 "the future looks better than the past" case studies. Great coauthors here #philsci #philsky #sfu philpapers.org/rec/ANDIEI

Bristol University Press launches Global Social Challenges Development Fund www.researchinformation.info/news/bristol... Initiative designed to democratise access to academic publishing and empower marginalised voices across the globe @brisunipress.bsky.social

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...

The first of this term's LIS research seminars is starting in just under 30 mins. I'm looking forward to seeing those of you who've registered there. If you've not registered yet, you can still do so from this page cassyni.com/events/RY5W1...

Great presentation from @nataliiak.bsky.social and Zeynep Aydin from the IDAHO project on "identification of hurdles to open access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"

Join us today for the LIS seminar “Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties - epistemic injustice in academic publishing” 📅 Friday 26th Sep 2025 ⏰ 15.00 PM (GMT+1) cassyni.com/events/RY5W1...

Upshot: NNES report to need twice as long to read English-language papers and to prepare English presentations. Even among highly proficient NNES (C1–C2 level), ~60% report having avoided asking questions at events due to concerns about their English (compared to 16% of NES). #philsky

Please check out ukrainian-carpentries.github.io for links to Ukrainian translations of @carpentries.carpentries.org Git and UNIX shell lessons!

New article published with @intermediocl.bsky.social and Cris Rovira: Visibility, Discoverability, Findability, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Academic SEO in Digital Repositories doi.org/10.1344/BID202… This work is part of @cuvicom.bsky.social and my research at @upf.edu

🍂 This paper offers 22 techniques to improve visibility in #digital_repositories. Must read for institutional repository managers! @danreyesl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1344/bid2... #greenOA #OA #SEO

"Epistemic oligarchies: capture and concentration through science reform", a new preprint by Sven Ulpts (not here), Sheena Bartscherer (also not here), @nicolecnelson.bsky.social and me. Read it here: zenodo.org/records/1713... 1/

New from #UKSGInsights: "Multilingual research dissemination: current practices and implications for bibliometrics" dub.sh/NJjpJG3

🚄 Heading to #OAT25 in Konstanz. Seven hours train companion @samuelmoore.org ‘s fresh book “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care and the Commons”

This 2-day workshop @royalsociety.org on the right to participate in science and science as a global public good brings together scientists, philosophers, and policy makers. The event is open to everyone and can also be attended online. Programme coming soon. Registration required 👇

Making scientific knowledge freely available is essential, but not always easy. This new #RSOS study examines the barriers that prevent researchers from publishing #OpenAccess: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @nataliiak.bsky.social

Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025

Check out the BOAI's Melissa Hagemann, as she talks with Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show about Global Equitable #OpenAccess. Fun format of weaving music about the theme in with the interview.  lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/episode-649-...

Received the print copy of my book (out next week!). Obligatory shot with @theul.bsky.social in the background.

If you would like to be a speaker for my Workshops for Ukraine series, you can send me a DM or email me at [email protected] Looking for speakers for 2-hour weekly workshops starting end of October on #RStats, #Python, data science, #dataviz, methods in #EconSky, etc.

Hurdles to open access publishing faced by authors: a scoping literature review from 2004 to 2023 | Royal Society Open Science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250257

Our review is out! The analysis shows that addressing barriers related to #OA provision alone will not be sufficient to ensure #equitable publishing opportunities. It is essential to recognize and engage with the broader systemic issues that shape #ScholarlyCommunication doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Accessibility standard implementation and OA publishers | Copim https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/accessibility-publishers/release/1

🌍 Glad to see our paper out! How researchers in developing countries & other resource-constrained contexts (can) practice #OpenScience, with free tools, training, success stories, & more. 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/2515... 🛠 osf.io/gu7v4 More in this thread by @hcp4715.bsky.social 👇 #AcademicSky #PsychSky

We've published a new blog post outlining the free training sessions we have on our website. If you're a researcher in the #humanities interested in #publishing and #OpenAccess, there may be something useful for you in there! 👇 uolpress.co.uk/2025/08/navi...

💥 New: Open science scholarly knowledge graphs can advance research assessment reform ✍️ @pmanghi.bsky.social #OpenResearch #OpenScience #AcademicSky

Some eloquent and insightful discussion today about achieving full #accessibility in #scholcomms 👇 @loupeck.bsky.social

An important and powerful interview! Everyone in #Academia, please take a moment to read this and reflect on strategies going foward! #DefendResearch #Action

Dear #OpenAccess community, #publishers & scientific #editors! Join us for the concluding webinar of the #IDAHOproject “Hurdles to #OA Publishing for Researchers with Weak Institutional Ties” August 28, 2025 15:00 PM CEST Registration: tib-eu.webex.com/weblink/regi...

Workshop: Hurdles to open access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties https://projects.tib.eu/idaho/en/abschlussworkshop/

The September talk in a new seminar series for LIS/Scholarly comms research is now live for registrations! @nataliiak.bsky.social - "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties - epistemic injustice is academic publishing" cassyni.com/events/RY5W1...

"Who controls the scientific literature?" New guest blog post by @fionahutton.bsky.social, Damian Pattison and @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social explores the @elife.bsky.social model and the challenges of driving change in scientific publishing. Read it here 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...

🌻Presentation slides are now available for download in the #LIBER2025 Zenodo community. Check it out: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The poster on visibility, discoverability, findability, and SEO in digital repositories, which we presented at #OpenRepos2025, is now available on Zenodo doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @intermediocl.bsky.social @cuvicom.bsky.social

Hi Nataliia, it is already published here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Happy faces at #LIBER2025 in Lausanne 🇨🇭after presenting results of the IDAHO project - Identification of burdens for #OpenAcees publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties @libereurope.bsky.social

The latest from #UKSGInsights: "A model for publishers to introduce globally fair and transparent pricing" by @wisealic.bsky.social @davejago.bsky.social Herman Mentink and @lorraineestelle.bsky.social dub.sh/JpMmP7P

#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research! FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪

Check out our #AI in Publishing report to see what #ScholComm leaders identified as the top issues information #standards should address! You can also share your thoughts on the list in our comment form (deadline July 15): niso.org/niso-io/2025...

Manista, G., Maryl, M., & Wnuk, M. (2025). Attitudes towards Open Access Books in the European Research Area. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 35(1), Article 1. doi.org/10.53377/lq.... #OpenAccess #books #ScholComm