Robert Kiley

Blog post: “Yes” to Transparent Service Fees, “No” to Fees That Charge Authors to Exercise Their Rights By Bodo Stern and Rachel Bruce

Should publishers charge authors fees for exercising a right they already have? Here’s why the new fees from IEEE & @acs.org miss the mark and what could replace them.
By @bodorama.bsky.social & @rachelbruce.bsky.social

www.coalition-s.org/blog/yes-to-...

#OpenAccess #OAweek #ScholComm

Martin, sorry to hear this. Hope you soon feel better.

Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture - Impact of Social Sciences As the journal Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency.

👀 ICYMI: "in today’s rapidly changing landscape of scientific communication, the decision feels less like a visionary leap and more like an uninspired nod to the status quo"

#Nature #PeerReview #ScholComm

NIH details options for limiting its payments for open-access publishing fees Other publishing proposals would scrap reimbursements or pay peer reviewers, unprecedented steps for a major government funder

Can authors afford APCs for #openaccess publishing if NIH caps its payments for them? Institutional read-and-publish deals offer an APC-free alternative, but NIH also wants to lower the indirect cost rate to 15%, which could squeeze money for such deals. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

We must break the link between publisher revenue and article volume Volume-driven publishing pushes up costs and threatens research integrity. We need new agreements with healthier incentives, says Anna Vernon

1️⃣ From @timeshighered.bsky.social: The UK is calling for a fundamental shift in how to fund & structure #AcademicPublishing, breaking the link between publisher profits & article volume. A powerful case for thinking #OpenAccess at scale

🔗Read more: shorturl.at/PbFRi

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published New study reveals concerns over scientific paper quality due to overwhelming publication volume. A ...

New study reveals concerns over scientific paper quality due to overwhelming publication volume. A retracted paper with AI-generated errors highlights the issue. Royal Society to review publishing. #ScientificPublishing #News

cOAlition S Head of Strategy, Robert Kiley, to conclude role in June 2025

After a successful period leading our strategic direction, @rkiley.bsky.social concludes his role as cOAlition S Head of Strategy in June.
📰 www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-...

Around 82% of research attributed to a cOAlition S funder is published open access; the comparable global OA figure is 53%

cOAlition S Annual Review 2024

📙The @coalitions-oa.bsky.social Annual Review 2024 is out, providing an overview of policy progress, tools, services, and ongoing initiatives that aim to make scholarly communication more open and accessible.
Read it here: 🔓 www.coalition-s.org/plan-s-annua...
#Plan_S #OpenAccess #scholcomm

How Equitable Is It? A framework for assessing scholarly communication models on the axis of equity. Developed by the “Beyond article-based charges” working group, which is convened by cOAlition S, Jisc and PLOS.

📢 Just released: Updated "How Equitable Is It?" tool with clearer definitions for assessing #equity in #ScholComm models.

👉 coalitions.typeform.com/Equity-Tool

📰 www.coalition-s.org/updated-vers...

By the beyond article-based charges working group,
cOAlition S, @jisc.bsky.social, @plos.org

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

“I will be resigning my position as associate editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science with immediate effect. I will no longer submit my research to Royal Society journals or act as a peer reviewer for them. I would urge my colleagues to do the same”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…

PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity

theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos...

#scientificpublishing

Update. From @hildabast: "What if We Can’t Rely on PubMed?"
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/what-if-we-cant-rely-on-pubmed/

"#PubMed is incredibly reliable…That said, between the risks of an exodus of key personnel, understaffing, or goodness-knows-what vandalism when a goon squad […]

Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

@coalitions-oa.bsky.social

Thanks. Has this event happened? I can just see an image, which isn’t clickable.

When researchers can’t afford to publish or access research, science loses vital perspectives.
📽️Watch how the #EquitablePricing Framework, developed by #informationpower for @cOAlitionS_OA, can make #ScholComm more accessible & equitable for researchers worldwide.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience

Innovation in scholarly comms & uptake of new models are hampered by scholarly infrastructures continuing to use increasingly outdated approaches. This collectively authored piece recommends 4 criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases upstream.force11.org/criteria-for...

The @wellcometrust.bsky.social update their #openaccess policy making it clear that their funding can no longer be used to support APCs for journals that are part of Jisc-approved transformative agreements.

See: wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests

Between predatory publications and preprints with no subsequent journal publication, there is a lot of dross out there the general public cannot fully put into context.

#AcademicPublishing

The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing Opinion | Scientists who spend time peer-reviewing manuscripts don’t get rewarded for their efforts. It’s time to change that.

A very thoughtful essay on the urgent need to start recognizing the crucial role peer-reviewers in the process of knowledge generation 🧐
📝 @cbo.bsky.social
#OpenScience #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing

undark.org/2024/07/04/o...

'Upon accepting NIH funding, recipients grant to NIH the right to make Author Accepted Manuscripts resulting from the funding publicly available in PubMed Central upon the Official Date of Publication'

Rights retention baked into the new US federal OA policy.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

At the @boilerroom-tv.bsky.social Guildford, looking forward to seeing @GracePetrie.

Fully agree. 16 sunsets is as good as 13 minutes to the moon (which was brilliant)

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…

India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few

The yearly fee of $241m to access 13k journals is high, but access is also restricted to researchers, when the ambition was to give access to every individual in India

#openaccess

See: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I cannot shout this loud enough - WE NEED IDENTITY CERTIFICATION IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING

The #Indian government's One Nation One Subscription #ONOS plan fails to address the problems of scholarly publishing and represents a half-baked plan at best. Also does nothing to get rid of the evils of commercial #sciencepublishing. Edit in The Hindu […]

How the Web of Science takes a step back Blog by Bodo Stern

How does Web of Science's decision to stop indexing @elife.bsky.social work against the interest of science?
Bodo Stern, Chief of Strategic Initiatives at @hhmi.bsky.social, explains: ✍️ coalition-s.org/blog/how-the...
#ScholComm #OpenScience #OpenAccess