Tracy Creagh

YouTube video by Open Library of Humanities Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond Regional perspectives, Shared Futures

Recording now available - Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt...

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🔸 @rupertgatti.bsky.social
🔸 @joedeville.bsky.social
🔸 @joannaball.bsky.social
🔸 @theblochian.bsky.social

Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social

Comic-style poster warning that commercial publishers are “eating your journal’s brains,” promoting the Open Library of Humanities.

It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween

Open Access Week | Open Access Australasia

🌏 Open Access Week 2025 - Thank You!
Open Access Australasia was pleased to present three distinct webinars with a diverse international and regional array of speakers #OAWeek2025
🎥event recordings are now available for you to watch at your convenience
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

Shaping the Future of Open Publishing: Introducing New Online Courses Join us to learn about the Open Publishing Courses offered through PKP + SFU with registration open to non-credit students around the world.

Upcoming free webinar - #OpenPublishing professional development opportunity October 30 9 AM PT

Open around the world!

For journal editors, managers, educators, learners, and anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of community-led open publishing

www.eventbrite.ca/e/shaping-th...

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Join us on 5 November 2025 at 9–10am UTC for Wayfinders #6.
"Diamond OA communities-of-practice in action" will dispel myths and explore the facets and features of diamond open access: bit.ly/47CAwla
With Femi Arogundade, @jbuggle.bsky.social, @creaght.bsky.social & Malavika Legge.
#OA #OpenAccess

Particular thanks to the panelists and their discussions about community and understandings of knowledge - including @theblochian.bsky.social with an overview of the Open Journals Collective

🚀First webinar for #OAWeek2025 in Australasia is underway
This session brings together speakers from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia to explore how government administrations are exerting ownership and control over knowledge, shaping narratives and gatekeeping access #OpenAccess 🌏

📣 There's still time to register!
📅 29 October 2025, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
Join the Diamond OA Policy Forum and explore the future of #OpenAccess publishing with policymakers and funders from Africa, Europe and Latin America!
👉 Find out more and register for free: almasiproject.org/the-diamond-...

Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.

Join us for #OAWeek!

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social

🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST

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photo by Martin Liebetruth

📣The Diamond Discovery Hub has officially launched during the final confernce in #Göttingen. @eudch.bsky.social Join the #DDH today : ddh.diamas.org/en
First photo by Martin Liebetruth.

Bring on the revolution 🤺 #OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess @oaaustralasia.bsky.social

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

OERs offer a practical, impactful way to widen access and rethink inclusion ... It means embedding openness into strategy, not treating it as a side project or fringe benefit @lseimpactblog.bsky.social #OpenAccess blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 2 | Open Access Australasia

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 2 👇
Community ownership: relation, reciprocity and responsibility
🗓️ Wednesday October 22
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 1 | Open Access Australasia

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 1 👇
The politics of knowledge: Who controls the story and who has access to it?
🗓️ Tuesday October 21
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions - Internet Archive Europe The global Our Future Memory campaign to secure digital rights for libraries, archives, and other memory institutions has gained another powerful ally. Wikimedia, one of the world’s leading champions ...

Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions | www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...

🌏Looking forward to #OAWeek2025 - a diverse international and regional array of speakers this year @oaaustralasia.bsky.social

According to the new regulation:
a) The Editor-in-Chief of Journals linked to the university may devote up to 20 hours a week to editorial functions
b) The Deputy Editor of Journals linked to the university will have up to 5 hours a week
#DiamondOA

So - how can we sustain Diamond #OpenAccess journals?
Well, here's an idea 👇💡
In Brazil, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina published a 'Normative Ordinance' that officially regulates the workload for professors who work as editors of their journals. periodicos.bu.ufsc.br/portaria-nor...

What do researchers acknowledge ChatGPT for in their papers? - Impact of Social Sciences A new study finds LLMs to be acknowledged for only a narrow set of academic tasks.

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social Publishers increasingly require (and academics are increasingly willing) to acknowledge and credit the role played by AI in their research papers
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.

@beneltham.bsky.social and the closure of @meanjin.bsky.social

“If an institution this venerable and important can be killed off with the click of a mouse, few cultural organisations in the country can feel safe.”

theconversation.com/the-decision...

STATEMENT: Time to stop the undermining of library rights: IFLA statement on contract override www.ifla.org/news/time-to...
The Statement ... calls on governments to protect limitations and exceptions ... & look at how to ensure libraries benefit from effective protections against unfair contracts

Publishing Beyond the Market Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...

@samuelmoore.org explores the "importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing" #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComms
Publishing Beyond the Market 📚https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market

Point of View: How the Global South is reshaping scholarly communication Publishing initiatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are promoting diamond open access, multilingualism, and non-profit, scholarly-led governance structures.

Excellent overview of the rise of scholarly publishing in the
#GlobalSouth 👇
"The future of scholarly publishing does not lie in reproducing the prestige-driven models of the past, but in building systems that reflect the world’s full intellectual diversity"
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

This is why it doesn't make sense to make decisions about culture on "purely financial grounds" (quote from a university administrator).

Meanjin is a critical part of Australian literary culture, an outrage it is being shuttered so unceremoniously.

Scholarly Publishing Won’t Be Saved by Incremental Change We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.

katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Who's noticed the new #DiamondOA icon on Scimago SJR Journal and Country Rankings? Identifying Diamond journals as a specific type of #OpenAccess ...

Registration is open for the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference, organised by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library -
www.un.org/en/library/O...
It's online and in a friendlier-than-usual timezone!
When?
16-18 October, 2025
#scholcomms #skybrarians

🆕The release of the full special issue on diverse experiences and expectations in the #OpenAccess landscape over the last decade - Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/issue/1...

🌏Open Access Australasia now on @bsky.app
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✔️Committed to advocating for and raising awareness of #OpenScholarship #OpenAccess in Australia & Aotearoa NZ
✔️Building capacity and expertise
✔️Collaborating nationally and internationally
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