Johan Rooryck

There is a possible (but unlikely and incongruous) reading of the last paragraph of that letter as a defense of… Diamond OA…

The European Diamond Capacity Hub receives a 3-year grant to boost its services | EDCH https://diamas.org/european-diamond-capacity-hub-receives-3-year-grant-boost-its-services

photo by Martin Liebetruth.

Join our panel “Diamonds, Dreams & Data Streams – Shaping Sustainable OA” at the CRAFT-OA final Conference 💎Four experts discuss about the future of #DiamondOA. 📺 Watch live: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con... #CRAFT_OA25 @pkp.sfu.ca . second photo by Martin Liebetruth.

The Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) is officially LIVE! 🥳

Your new reference for #DiamondOA journals — scholar-led, free to publish, free to read.

Developed by @craft-oa.bsky.social, the DDH brings visibility, credibility and recognition to Diamond OA journals across Europe 👀👇

#OpenAccess #CRAFT_OA25

In Göttingen for the final
conference #CRAFT_OA2025 of the EU-funded CRAFT-O project, with the @eudch.bsky.social team and the great conference organizers.

Hang in there Martin! Be nice to yourself.

Head shots of Clara Armengou and Dominic Mitchell who are attending the CRAFT-OA Conference 6-8 October 2026

Pleased to be attending the CRAFT-OA Conference
Crafting the Future of #DiamondOA: Technical, Social, and Political Perspectives of #ScholarlyPublishing @craft-oa.bsky.social @eudch.bsky.social l
📌October 6-8
📌University of Göttingen, Germany
www.craft-oa.eu/conference/
#DOAJ #CRAFTOA

If you’re a researcher, scientist, or knowledge producer, you are a creator. Every dataset, manuscript, and research output you produce can fuel discovery, deepen collaboration, and help solve global… Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons

We recently published a video titled Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons. It explains how CC licenses work, why CC BY is the most open option, and how openly licensing your research with CC can strengthen the power of the scientific community.

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3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers out in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchips.bsky.social, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.org

The problem is compounded by the fact that it is technically hard to keep the preprints, its reviews, and the editorial decision together as a single identifiable cluster of documents that receives a “top level” PID, so to speak. I believe a consistent system of PID/DOI extension codes could help.

Open letter to HHMI on their Immediate Access to Research Policy The following is in response to a letter sent to the HHMI community on September 24, 2025 and refers to HHMI’s new Immediate Access to Research Policy. The original letter appears at the bottom below ...

thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/open-lette...

EDCH Communication Officer (ref.: 202509-ECO) - OPERAS OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area. Its mission is to coordinate and federate resou...

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We’re hiring a Communication Officer 👀

Shape our comms, engage the community, and make a difference.

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The academic system needs to take the work of building community-led, open source/access initiatives much more seriously as a valid and vital form of academic labour

One of Janne Pölönen's presentations on the centrality of diamond journals in multilingualism in scholarly publishing, referred to in a question:
zenodo.org/records/1109... #OASPA2025

The EDCH has received a grant from the Gates Foundation.

Big news for #DiamondOA! The #EDCH receives a 3-year grant from the Gates Foundation to boost services & build a #community of OA publishers in Europe.

👉 Read more: buff.ly/pxcyTxd

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

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We're about action and tangible change, not empty words or the same old meetings.

Couldn't agree more, of course.

Should it? It basically goes against neoliberalism in putting non-monetary exchanges and collaboration first. But many other public services and activities are like that.

Beg to differ: both community-led and no fees for *all* readers and authors define Diamond OA in the @eudch.bsky.social See the 6 operational criteria for Diamond OA in our Diamond Discovery Hub. Your “free to, free to publish” would include Read and Publish deals in Diamond, which is not the case.

Journals waking up to African researchers’ plight to publish For many African researchers, publishing in international peer-reviewed journals is not just about contributing to knowledge; it’s a career lifeline...

"In 2021, African ecologists examined 40 top-ranked journals in their field and found that the average fee to publish an article was US$3,150. The study, published in Nature, also revealed that 75% of the journals did not provide any waivers for researchers from LMICs"

Why do National Capacity Centres (NCCs) matter?
Because Diamond OA can’t thrive on fragmented infrastructure.
NCCs connect, support, and strengthen local publishing systems.

UN Scientific Advisory Board Adopts Landmark Statement on Open #Science (via #ISC) https://council.science/blog/un-scientific-advisory-board-adopts-landmark-statement-on-open-science/ #openscience

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers out in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchips.bsky.social, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.org

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.

🗃️ From the August: "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"

#PRW25 #PeerReview

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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

The EDCH responds to The National Institutes of Health’s Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs

We welcome the initiative — but warn it misses a key opportunity to support fair & community-driven publishing 🧵👇

#OpenScience #DiamondOA

Pierre Mounier @operaseu.bsky.social introducing the panel on #ORE underlying that #open is not enough if it’s not #equitable #OSFair2025

The DIAMAS policy brief offers a shared roadmap to strengthen Diamond OA in Europe.

Built by 23 organisations in 12 countries, it connects data, coordination and action.

Designed for funders, policymakers, and nonprofit institutional publishers