Ashley Farley

Advancing Openly Licensed Preprints: Aligning Across A Standard Preprints Policy Framework – ASAPbio Keep up to date on open scholarly communication! Check out what’s new on the blog.

🔓 Open practices for preprints, including open licensing, are crucial for rapid and equitable sharing of scientific research.

ASAPbio, in partnership with @creativecommons.bsky.social, has engaged with research funders to further policy alignment toward a standard Preprint Policy Framework.

Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC

Learn about #preprints & accelerating #OpenAccess to research in our story featuring HHMI, Gates & Astera. @hhmi-science.bsky.social, @madubs.bsky.social, @gatesfoundation.bsky.social, @openaccessmaven.bsky.social, @asterainstitute.bsky.social, @pracheeac.bsky.social sparcopen.org/impact-story...

Fotis Mystakopoulos speaks with Ashley Farley, Senior Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Gates Foundation, about how a major funder is accelerating open science through preprints. They… Preprints in Practice: A Funder’s Perspective

ASAPbio Fellow Fotis Mystakopoulos @elibrarydude.bsky.social spoke with Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social, Senior Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Gates Foundation, about how a major funder is accelerating open science through preprints.
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I really want to know what the relationship between the authors is like...I have so many questions

In our latest Industry Water Cooler Chat, Scholastica's Danielle Padula spoke w/ @openaccessmaven.bsky.social at the Gates Foundation about the next strategic phase of @coalitions-oa.bsky.social and how Gates and other funders are pivoting their OA policies in response.

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cOAlition S Strategy 2026-2030

1/ cOAlition S announces its 2026–2030 strategy, guided by a refreshed, shared vision: a scholarly communication system that enables rapid, open, transparent & equitable sharing of trustworthy scientific knowledge.
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As funder OA policies continue to evolve, what do journal publishers need to know?

Scholastica's @danielle-josephine.bsky.social caught up with @openaccessmaven.bsky.social at the #GatesFoundation, for a water cooler chat on the topic.

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Celebrating Open Access Week: Why OA Matters | Trevor Mundel posted on the topic | LinkedIn Hello all! This is Pavithran Narayanan, taking over Trevor’s LinkedIn in recognition of International Open Access Week. As an open access (OA) enthusiast, it’s a pleasure to share a few reflections on...

It was a pleasure to share my thoughts on Open Access through the #LinkedIn profile of Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health, Gates Foundation, on account of #OAWeek! @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenResearch

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I was so excited for the chance to chat about my work at the foundation on my # 1 favorite podcast about preprints! Very grateful to @ripplingideas.bsky.social for providing the space.

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It was the best way to spend #OpenAccessWeek!

YouTube video by Jordan Harrod Why Can't We Read What We Funded? #GatesOAPartner

@jordanharrod.com does an amazing job breaking down the problems that #OpenAccess is striving to solve for! #GatesOAPartner #OAWeek #WhoOwnsKnowledge
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Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC

We just posted an impact story on policies at HHMI, Gates & Astera promoting #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Powerful signals to other funders to accelerate discovery in science. Well done @madubs.bsky.social @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @pracheeac.bsky.social! sparcopen.org/impact-story...

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Thrilled to be giving a lightning talk at the AdaMarie Career Navigation Summit! ⚡My session, "Turn Your Network into Your Superpower", covers both practical ways to build & leverage your community to grow your career. @weareadamarie.bsky.social
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Join the OpenCon Librarian Community Call tomorrow! Note that it's an hour later than usual. We will be joined by Creative Commons for an overview of CC Signals. If you work in libraries and AI is a topic that keeps popping up be sure to register!

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🌍💡 How can we fund science that’s open, equitable, and aligned with national goals?

Join us at #ScienceSummitNYC to explore how Open Research can drive progress on the #SDGs & how to finance it sustainably.

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Now this is a stellar line up and topic for #OpenAccessWeek2025 #OAweek2025!

I love the theme “We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyone" and cannot wait to hear the panelists perspective on it.
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Nothing makes me lose hope more in humanity than trying to log into Editorial Manager for the simplest of tasks.

YouTube video by Creative Commons Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons

Watch this video to learn about the importance of openly licensing your research with #CreativeCommons to increase your impact, expand access to knowledge, & strengthen the collective power of the scientific community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IBT...

Wait there is a journal with a $15,584,416.00 USD APC? This has to be an error. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

And by heated convos I am referring to the fact that when we launched Gates Open Research almost a decade ago researchers thought that preprinting and open peer review was wild. Now perceptions have really shifted. Authors that embraced a new model have made it much easier for others to follow

Time through peer review may be something to look into. With the F1000 model you have to find peer reviewers who agree to be named & the peer review report to be published. F1000 doesn't seem to struggle any more than other publishers to find peer reviewers as far as I know but something to consider

Now for the MDPI of it all - I think there is a couple things at play here:
1. MPDI aggressive marketing & supplements
2. Speed - while F1000 is fast in some respects if you are getting to an index article MDPI may be faster
3. Maybe easier time through peer review

Readership and discoverability are still an issue. It's something we've been slowly working on over the years. It's hard when there is so much noise. Authors of course want their papers read & trusted known venues will provide that. I do wish there was more creativity in solutions for this issue.

Great piece! I think there are a lot of interesting things to unpack here. In my general experience with Gates Open Research authors are reluctant to any change - even if positive. If they think their colleagues expect them to publish in X,Y,Z they will continue to do so.

Agreed. F1000 & Gates - we made the trek around to grantee groups that would listen. There were heated conversations. I do think it was fundamental to uptake. I'd still like to see much more use but the two limiting factors have been - lack of impact factor & indexing limitations.

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Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights Image: Adobe Stock Image Scientific knowledge is a public good Science and scholarship are about sharing and advancing knowledge, and many open access policies have been diligently designed in orde…

Well stated!

"The content of an article belongs to the author who should not be duped into paying a fee to exercise a right they already have."
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Sadly this is spot on.
It's hard to have empathy though as researcher disinterest in trying to change the system has stymied progress.

Northern universities urge publishers to reform their model - Research Professional News N8 group calls for change as universities eye subscription cuts and deals are renegotiated

“For too long, we’ve seen the consolidation of scholarly publishing into the hands of a few major commercial players whose priorities are increasingly divorced from the academic communities they were meant to serve.” www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...