Graham Stone

Still four days left to apply to our new Head of Technology position.

Full job description and application details available here: oapen.org/article/vaca...

Excellent move! And since these journals are community-owned, they would pass the Diamond OA test of the Diamond Discovery Hub at the European Diamond Capacity Hub as long as library participation holds @eudch.bsky.social

That's what I felt like after Copim and OPERAS wrote blogs about me when I left Jisc - on out of body experience!

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White Rose Libraries is looking for an Admin Assistant to support collaborative work across the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York.

This role is perfect for someone with strong organisational skills who enjoys coordinating activity in a dynamic, cross-institutional environment.

New Open Access in the Humanities online training course launched! - University of London Press We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and avail...

💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social.

Details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

We haven't aged a day🤥

This case study explores the role of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in increasing the visibility and accessibility of Ukrainian academic journals. Ukrainian journals face numerous challenges due to economic constraints and the ongoing war. The article presents how open infrastructures play an important role in supporting journals during conflict, invasion or major disruption, using DOAJ as a case study. It analyzes what has worked and what could have been improved in DOAJ’s approach, including its collaborative efforts with the Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff (SUES) project, the Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI) and Research4Life as initiatives to increase the visibility, transparency and impact of all digitized Ukrainian academic journals, despite the ongoing war with Russia. Recommendations are presented to increase the quality and visibility of Ukrainian journals and to guide open infrastructures in supporting journals from conflict areas.

The latest from #UKSGInsights - "Open infrastructures in conflict zones: a case study of @doaj.bsky.social and Ukrainian journals" (Authors: @ozimba.bsky.social, @katrinesundsbo.bsky.social, Natalia Laiuzhna and Iemima Ploscaru) dub.sh/rVBTHTI

Many inspiring thoughts today at the DIAMAS final conference. Lots to do within @eudch.bsky.social and the Nordic Capacity Centre. One great output is these practical recommendations. Something that can be used when meeting stakeholders on a national and regional level zenodo.org/records/1551...

After 6 years it was time to get the band back together!

Really looking forward to it. Do you know the stage times tonight?

Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time In my previous post on our less than optimal performance of the OAPEN Library and DOAB, I wrote about the effect of AI bots on our systems, and that it has become a common problem for many sites provi...

I wrote a little blogpost about #AI #bots that are like a plague of locusts on the #OAPEN #Library

#OpenAccess #books

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Launching our UKRI collection On 6 December 2024, we announced that we entered a partnership collaboration with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to provide a set of dedicated services for its funded open access (OA) books.  Under...

Last year we announced a partnership collaboration with
@ukri.org to host a collection of #OAbooks they've supported.

6 months later we're happy to share the collection is now live! 46 books and 5 chapters have been added so far, with more to come.

Browse the collection: oapen.org/funders/ukri

A slide for my talk at SFIS showing a picture of me and the talk title "On Collective Funding Models for Open Access"

Here we go again! This week I am giving a keynote at the Swedish Association of Information Specialists Conference. I will be talking about the history of collective funding models for open access publishing and introducing the new project and platform that I am working on at Knowledge Commons...

This case study presents the context, governance and operations of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) launched in January 2025. The EDCH will coordinate diamond open access (OA) capacity centres in Europe and consolidate and align the diamond OA organizations that provide services and tools to diamond OA outputs in Europe. In this way, it will provide the backbone for a scholarly communication infrastructure that is owned and operated by the academic community without charges for authors and readers.

The latest from #UKSGInsights: Pierre Mounier and Johan Rooryck "Federating diamond OA in Europe and beyond: the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH)" dub.sh/hpNatCZ

I wanted to be there in Brighton this year, but it clashed with selling the house and following our amazing removals company across 4 countries. My 2 mint copies of the Serials Management Handbook survived the trip ;)

Greetings from the mainland! Looking forward to working on all things #oabooks again

Oh, and I have news - I've gone and got a new job. So pleased to be part of an amazing team at @oapenbooks.bsky.social

Back on the socials after a long break - did I miss anything?