Andrea Chiarelli

Our colleague, @drachiarelli.bsky.social, is travelling over to UAE next week to join the @forumforopen.bsky.social Conference. Feel free to connect with Andrea to discuss the conference or even arrange a catch up. #FORM2025 #UAE

At Frankfurt Book Fair? We’re taking the pulse of the academic publishing ecosystem — share your view in our 2-minute survey and see how your outlook compares in our post-event brief.

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Our colleagues, @dylanstoran.bsky.social and @rschrobuk.bsky.social are in Frankfurt this week to attend the @stmassoc.bsky.social conference and the @buchmesse.de Frankfurt Book Fair. Feel free to connect with Dylan and Rob to catch up in person. #STM #FBF

Great to to see @openbookcollective.bsky.social’s annual report referencing our recent work for them on financial sustainability

Working with EMBL-EBI, we explored the challenges scientists face in accessing and contributing to global biodata infrastructure.

Read the final report here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

It was great to partner with @ebi.embl.org to explore the usage of biodata and bioinformatics resources across the world.

Thanks to ThankGod Ebenezer and Matthew Thakur for the guidance and insight along the way!

I'm looking forward to discussing research impact with @wherearethebooks.bsky.social at @forumforopen.bsky.social later this month. Register below to join our workshop!

Read reflections on #OASPA2025 by @drachiarelli.bsky.social in Italian and with an English translation.
Multilingualism is just one of the many important considerations raised at the conference. Do share your own reflections #inyourownwords

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7 Hidden Games Running Your Meetings Classic dilemmas that explain why collaboration stalls - and how to unlock it

Unlike puzzles with a single correct answer, games highlight the interdependence of decisions. By exploring interactions as games, we can see why people sometimes act against their own long-term interest and why groups can fall into traps.

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Against the Grain - The Podcast: ATGthePodcast 291 - A Conversation with Rob Johnson, Managing Director, Founder, Research Consulting Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Rob Johnson, Managing Director, Founder, Research Consulting. Rob Johnson is founder and C...

Higher education and scholarly publishing are facing some tough questions. My recent conversation with Michael Upshall on the Against the Grain Podcast explores why. atgthepodcast.libsyn.com/atgthepodcas...

Quite funny that they're citing $13,000 APCSs as a reason for doing this. Nature got greedy.

How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books? As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of d...

For example, earlier this year a piece on Diamond #OpenAccess was published in Katina as the result of a collaboration between the Open Access Business Models WG and the OABN WG:

'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?' katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Graphic with text: Calling trailblazers — pitch your innovation. Deadline 30 September. STM Innovator Fair 2025. Innovation & Integrity Days, London.

Are you an innovator—or do you know one that deserves the spotlight? Then come closer: we've just opened applications for the STM Innovator Fair. Deadline to submit is 30 Sept!

Here, selected presenters pitch #scholarlycommunication solutions to STM decision makers:
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A touch of systems thinking👇 might be what we need to unlock the transition to open access. #OASPA2025

Great engagement with Malavika’s interactive session at #OASPA2025!

An interesting @oaspa.bsky.social ‘can do’ panel (@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @theblochian.bsky.social Kate McCready and Lauren Kane) discussing great examples of non-profit initiatives that are focused on community-led approaches, innovative models and considering built-in scaling. #OASPA2025

Important call from ACM for publishers to set a hard deadline for their OA transition. Stay tuned for January 2026, when their portfolio will be fully open. 👏 #OASPA2026

A strong call to action. In my own experience, one of the greatest challenges is identifying the ‘right people’ to engage in each region to start partnerships. Languages are a big barrier, too, as are time zone differences - it might sound silly/very practical, but it’s a real blocker! #OASPA2025

Lauren Kane - we need to be able to experiment and try, and know that some things will fail - and not hold new models to a higher standard than the old ones. Perhaps S2O won't work for everyone/ forever, but traditional model certainly didn't either. #OASPA2025

Infographic showing the main findings from the researcher development study, covering aspects of evaluation, strategy, structures, engagement, programmes and delivery, challenges and opportunities.

At #VitaeCon2025 we launched the report from a researcher development study in partnership with @Vitae-news.bsky.social with 14 UK & Australian universities, supporting 40,000 research staff and students. See the infographic & public report: buff.ly/76YyQRl

#researcherdevelopment #VitaeCon 🧵1/7

Agreed, my own knowledge of this is patchy at best - do feel free to connect with Rob if you’d like an intro to any of the panellists!

They weren’t a big part of this discussion, but there was a full panel on OA books yesterday!

Valuable overview shared by Dagmar Meyer.

Spoiler alert: this is only the first elephant we see at #OASPA2025 today… (wait for Malavika’s session later!)

As the slide highlights, these journals have limited international visibility. We need to fix that: Kazuhiro Hayashi acknowledges that Japan might be in a good position to start or lead ‘something different.’

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Great to see the breadth of China’s involvement in the open access landscape, with both successes and challenges. #OASPA2025

Our very own @rschrobuk.bsky.social kicking off the panel “Policy in progress around the world: the role of funder mandates on a 100% OA future.” Looking forward to the discussion!

#OASPA2025 #publishing

2021 Updated policy to be Plan S-aligned: immediate access with a CC BY licence

2025 Updated policy to include preprints as a version of articles that can be used to comply with policy

Credit for transcription goes to ChatGPT - apologies for any errors!

2013 Updated policy to include monographs and book chapters

2016 Launched publishing platform Wellcome Open Research

2016 Updated policy to require a CC BY licence where an article processing charge was paid

2005 Introduced first open access policy

2006 Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project

2008 Policy required deposit of articles in PubMed Central or UK PubMed Central (now known as Europe PMC) within 6 months of publication

2011 Founding partner of eLife