Johan Rooryck

What's different about this idea and PlanS? PlanS required publishers to cooperate, giving them leverage in the new system.

Funders stipulating all work published in non-profits requires authors to follow funder guidelines, but doesn't involve publishers in the slightest.

That's why this can work.

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

Dr. Oransky said that the way scientists are rewarded for their work would have to change as well. “To paraphrase James Carville, it’s the incentives, stupid,” he said. “We need to stop making it profitable to game the system.”

A useful perspective.

Editors' Introduction

Fantastic to see the 1st issue of Theory & Social Inquiry by @openlibhums.bsky.social. As Krippner & Prasad write, we must "carve out & maintain a space for social scientific & intellectual autonomy" when publishers capitulate to commercial pressures: www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/article/id/1...

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

“For researchers, the ability to engage with a text in the original language is especially useful in situations where precise nuances—whether technical, legal [or] literary—really matter,” she [Megan Bowler, HEPI report author] said.

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

Wellcome people actually went to the grantees’ institutions to convince them to use it. Salespersonship does it.

Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in “unethical actions” such as manipu…

These retractions really show the importance of careful human analysis in identifying misconduct. The publisher responds by updating its AI detection tool that missed the error in the first place.

retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/f...

"who controls the scientific literature? ... power and control over vital issues – what is peer review, what is a journal, what gets published – have been ceded to organizations beyond the scientific community, like Web of Science and Scopus. This is not healthy for science or scientific community."

The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social.

This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous "The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...

'Wiley had attempted to keep the journal going without an academic editorial team in place, but those efforts have now come to an end. The publisher says, “All authors with active submissions will be contacted directly by Wiley to discuss available alternatives and next steps.”'

Sustainability Toolsuite EDCH, DIAMAS

Funders, national contexts & financial models shape #DiamondOA sustainability:
🔸 On funders: zenodo.org/records/1462...
🔸 National snapshots: zenodo.org/records/1138...
🔸 What does sustainability mean in Europe? zenodo.org/records/1090...
Explore the Toolsuite: toolsuite.diamas.org/toolsuite-su...

This is the no-fee open-access model for books I designed and worked on with @scholtom.bsky.social -- real-world impact from authors who benefited from it.

Fully agree with Rebecca Lawrence that "the research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research".

The other way around, I would argue that a failure to innovate scientific publishing also hinders reform of research assessment.

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

Nice to see some commentary on the recent @theguardian.com piece by @iansample.bsky.social on #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ACADEMICsky

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

💬 #EDCHVoices – #DiamondOA for books: Are we trying to fit books into a journal-shaped model?

Following the article by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar and @nielsstern.bsky.social, how #DiamondOA can truly embrace the diversity of book publishing?

Open access economic model branded ‘fundamentally broken’ - Research Professional News Lead negotiator on UK university publishing deals says agreements “neither sustainable nor fit for purpose”

Quite a blunt statement on where things stand on open access agreements with big publishers from Liam Earney, the guy leading negotiations from @jisc.bsky.social

“At the highest level, for the majority of universities that we work on behalf of, the economic model is viewed as fundamentally broken”

Another step in growing support for preprinting: ASAPbio and Creative Commons have launched the Preprint Policy Framework, offering a systematic overview of preprint policies of several research funders.

Funders and institutions interested in adopting the Framework are welcome to contact ASAPbio.

Great summary of the Royal Society conference by Matt Hodgkinson - this is just one of the posts, so do go to his account and read them all! | Andrea Chiarelli Great summary of the Royal Society conference by Matt Hodgkinson - this is just one of the posts, so do go to his account and read them all! If you want to find out more about what Claire was explori...

If you haven't had a chance yet, do check out @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy's summaries of The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference on LinkedIn. Great stuff!

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

YouTube video by BBC Morocco fossil finds re-write the origins of our species - BBC

youtu.be/73NQuGXaM_w?...

NIH Plans to Cap Publisher Fees, Dilute “Scientific Elite” Director of the National Institutes of Health says that capping research journals’ open-access fees will help rein in the $19 billion academic publishing industry and bolster scientific debate.

NIH Director say journals "bully scientists into paying large fees".

No. Academia is a prestige economy in which scientific leadership chose to make journals the currency & Gold OA was deemed 'the way'. Publishers just cashed in; you don't have to pay $10K

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Congratulations, Martin!

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

🎉 Netherlands University Presses (NUPs) receive €300,000 grant from @opensciencenl.bsky.social to strengthen diamond open access publishing! 💎 Building a sustainable, academic-led alternative free for both readers AND authors. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran... 👆🏾

A diamond being held between a pair of silver tweezers so that it can be examined, over a plain white surface.

NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'

Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...

APC caps anchor a price for some to rise to and others to treat as a baseline. Caps also are a recognition that they represent a ‘reasonable’ price for the capper. That is why we never wanted to consider them at cOAlition S.

Guest Post: When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do - The Scholarly Kitchen AI-enabled discovery and summarization tools seem like magic to end users, but for publishers it looks like disintermediation.

ANALOGY that comes to mind is Ouroboros - the serpent that eats its own tail - when reading this article: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/07/g...
Who knew that selling all one's material off at a high profit to AI systems would render oneself redundant? My sympathy is low I am afraid.

Netherlands/UK galloped ahead and set #OpenScience agenda; Other countries (North and South) struggling to catch up. w/ #PathOS recs, are we just doing this again -- asking the whole world to implement recs made by a relatively small group of wealthy countries?

#OSmonitoring2025