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“Good taste?” Really? Ouch….

Theme — International Open Access Week

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme

Today, July 1, the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access policy goes into effect. Learn more at the new NIH policy overview web page: grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c... & get answers to your FAQs here: grants.nih.gov/faqs#/public....

NIH Public Access Policy: Implementation and Feedback The NIH Public Access Policy is in effect as of July 1, 2025. In response, Authors Alliance and SPARC have created a form to collect information about challenges or questions faced by authors, libr…

The NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect today, July 1, 2025.

We and @sparcopen.bsky.social have made a form to collect challenges or questions faced by authors, librarians and their institutions in complying with the new federal public access policies:

www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/01/n...

So important…publishers once again demonstrating that they prioritize profits over researchers being able to communicate the results of their own work.

Quite a vote confidence for the immediate, free sharing of taxpayer funded research today: www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

For those of you working with us closely: If you haven't been in Mattermost in a while, please check the urgent channel if you have a few minutes today. I know it is a holiday for many, but we have some datasets that could potentially use rescue.

Follow @apduorg.bsky.social to see what it means to take action on public data access!

‘Time is of the Essence’: ALA Sues Trump Administration to Save IMLS The ALA suit comes just days after a coalition of state attorneys general filed a similar federal lawsuit in Rhode Island also seeking to stop the Trump administration’s dismantling of the IMLS.

So gratifying to see ALA step up and go to bat to IMLS: www.wordsandmoney.com/time-is-of-t...

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

If you want to do something meaningful, a great place to start would be to support the crucial work of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive:

A peek inside the busy home of the Internet Archive

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This a very bad move…cutting high-quality society published journals instead of ditching over-priced commercial journal bundles at a US federal agency library:

www.science.org/content/arti...

Statement on Termination of Open Government Federal Advisory Committee Trump Attacks Open GovernmentGSA Terminates Open Government Federal Advisory Committee FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Daniel Schuman, American Governance Institute February 25, 2025 Washington, DC –…

A gut punch…but the work to ensure openness and transparency in our government will continue wherever we can collectively make it happen…

americalabs.org/2025/02/25/s...

Do I dare to eat a peach?

Immensely proud to play a small part in securing this landmark declaration on access to knowledge as a human right and to be a part of this global community. #DiamondOpenAccess

India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig…

This is a *really* disappointing outcome…these funds could be used to support local, community driven research communication efforts rather than continuing to feed commercial profits. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

"Adopting Secondary Publishing Rights in Canada will significantly improve public access to research, strengthen Canada's global research impact, and create a more equitable scholarly publishing landscape."

Great work looking at the opportunites of Secondary Publishing Rights in a Canadian context.

We created Privacy Badger to be an easy way to block any tracker or ad that violates the principle of user consent. Learn more about the tool at privacybadger.org and give @privacybadger.bsky.social a follow!

Case Study: Next-Generation Publishing Platform Curvenote and ROR In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use…

Love seeing @curvenote.com featured for our work integrating Research Organization Registry id's (ROR).

Scientific metadata initiatives like ROR, ORCiD, DOI, etc. sound dry but they're EVERYTHING for making science easier to search.

@researchorgs.bsky.social

How to get started with academic Bluesky As prominent individual and institutional accounts eschew Twitter/X for new social media platforms, Bluesky is having a moment. Drawing on the experience of colleagues on the platform, Ned Potter, …

As a newbie to this platform, I found this super-helpful:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Open Source Post Training is going strong! In last 2 weeks, we got data or recipes released for OpenCoder, SmolLM-2, Orca Agent Instruct, and Tülu 3. Read it, learn, and iterate:

Anyone who is concerned about the way AI is exacerbating social and economic problems should be citing this report. Excellent work from @kevindeliban.bsky.social and @techtonicjustice.bsky.social

The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, a palatial Beaux-Arts temple to study, filled with marble columns and fine statuary, and lighted research areas arranged around a central information desk of carved mahogany

A giant welcome for the @flaminghydra.com debut of @sarahlamdan.bsky.social, author of DATA CARTELS and supercool librarian and law nerd, today in conversation with @littlewow.bsky.social on trust, publishing, libraries, copyright, and sanity, only imagine

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Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.

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MetaROR is here! The free, open peer review platform by @rorinstitute.bsky.social & @aimosinc.bsky.social, aims to change how research is reviewed and shared. Their Publish-Review-Curate model makes the publication process faster and more open.

Details: researchonresearch.org/introducing-...

One important motivation for open access was the lack of transparency from publishers around subscription prices, but it sounds like they're being just as opaque with APCs. This is a really helpful piece of work showing the huge sums paid to commercial publishers in APCs.

This week, Authors Alliance and we at SPARC released the first of four white papers on legal issues surrounding open access to federally funded research articles under the 2022 OSTP Nelson Memo. Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....