Johan Rooryck

In my 32 years at Leiden university, I have never been more stoked than by this appointment!

As always, an insightful discussion by @eve.gd

The latest @gallup.com poll:

- "In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity."

news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

Great news from across the ocean! 🎉

Another concrete step forward for #DiamondOA, with a new initiative to map and support #community-led, fee-free publishing in the U.S.

Looking forward to seeing the outcomes of this project 👀

We invented borders and invented immigration and then invented ways of making immigration illegal and we invented the relationship between crime and immigration. Immigration “enforcement” is literally an hysterical exercise in the pursuit of a fantasy, it is a mental disorder.

Open Source Power We have to talk about open source licensing.

"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."

Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”

t presents the results of an online consultation conducted from September 2024 to January 2025, with nearly 2,900 responses from 90 Member States.

#UNESCO has published the results of the Global Consultation on #DiamondOA in the 50pp document 'Advancing equity and inclusion in scholarly communication: findings from the consultation on a Global Diamond Open Access Framework'

It can be downloaded here: lnkd.in/eGXPCBvK

You’re telling me SpringerNature doesn’t need to charge $13,000 a paper for Nature Plants? I’m shocked!

All you need to combine both is a personal staff of 5… 😉

Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards

"We’re entering uncertain times; a chaotic transition is coming as universities shift away from commercial models to cheaper, more sustainable, non-profit alternatives. As with any publishing revolution, there will be winners and losers."

@theblochian.bsky.social on community-led publishing.

Note the comment: "All these papers are by young researchers, all took ±9 months from submission to publication."

🌐 DOAJ and the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) held an open access hybrid event to mark China Day 2025 in Xi’an
Deputy Head of Editorial Cenyu Shen and Program Manager Clara Armengou presented on #DiamondOA and journal quality - @joannaball.bsky.social delivered the opening address

Well, I think we need digital and social infrastructures actually helping people makes all these lofty things into reality on the ground.

"The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues."

Implementing the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) In this recent study Barbaro, Annarita, Maria Cristina Barbaro, and Federica Napolitani. 2025. “No Fees, No Barriers—But What Standards? Considerations on the DIAMAS Diamond OA Standard Applied to a…

💬 #EDCHVoices – Implementing DOAS: They tried. And you?

The team of Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità used the #DOAS self-assessment to review their #DiamondOA practices — sharing lessons learned on challenges & opportunities.

👉 Now it’s your turn. Add your voice: buff.ly/PkChicw

Security and sovereignty in publishing isn’t optional — it’s strategic.
Institutions must choose: external control or shared ownership.
👉 buff.ly/0ddSppD
#DiamondOA, #DIAMASProject

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“They’re earning huge profit margins because we’ve all kind of acquiesced to a system in which we provide free services to corporations. Part of the open access movement is an attempt to break that,” Gershman said.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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BREAKING. Une vaste étude réalisée par L’Union européenne de radio-télévision et la BBC montre que les Chatbots (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity) déforment le contenu des informations dans 45 % des cas, indépendamment de la langue ou du territoire

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

Help shape the history of Open Science!

Ahead of the “Open Science in History. From Enlightenment to AI” conference in Bern (Nov 21), @craft-oa.bsky.social & organisers are building a community-curated timeline — and your voice matters! 🧵👇

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #ScienceHistory

Being a poet should be a prerequisite for presidential candidates.

#DiamondOA and the Diamond Discovery Hub: the Movie!

what exactly are university managers doing, when they put pressure on staff to dedicate months of their time applying for these?

Interested in a non commercial, academy owned publishing solution? We work with our friends at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social to offer Janeway and Fulcrum together.

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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