There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, non-profit organizations, and scholarly publishers, anyone who is working to make quality information universally available on the internet. And the technologists defending against this broad-based attack are doing everything they can to preserve their outlets while trying to remain true to the mission of providing the digital lifeblood of science and cul...| Go To Hellman
Libraries know that a big fraction of their book collections never circulate, even once. The flip side of this fact is that a small fraction of a library's collection accounts for most of the circulation. This is often referred to as Zipf's law; as a physicist I prefer to think of it as another manifestation of log-normal statistics resulting a preferential attachment mechanism for reading. (English translation: "word-of-mouth".)| Go To Hellman
"Kale emerging from a slush pile" | Go To Hellman
Can a book be more valuable if it's free? How valuable? To whom? How do we unlock this value?| Go To Hellman
This post is a summary of the graduation research project undertaken by Esraa Kamal, Esraa Abo El Magd, Rawan Ashraf and Yasmine Essam – senior students of the Department of Libraries, Archives, and Information Science at Cairo University in Egypt. The research evaluated DOAJ as an information retrieval system and focused on search and recall...| DOAJ Blog
The revised public access policy for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now in effect, covering NIH-funded articles accepted for publication after July 1, 2025. Since NIH is a significant source of grant funding for UC, this change is likely to affect many UC-affiliated authors. Visit OSC’s Guidance on the Revised NIH Public Access Policy page to learn how to comply with these policies and how UC’s open access agreements with publishers can help. This guidance features a summary...| Office of Scholarly Communication
Special timely note: Please come by and chat about OA with Scholarly Communications staff at the IU Libraries Graduate Student Reception, Wednesday August 20! In your scholarly journey thus far, you’ve undoubtedly clicked on an article only to find a paywall that even your IU affiliation couldn’t unlock. You can imagine how common this experience […]| IU Libraries Blogs
Here’s the Full Text of the Launch Announcement From the BTAA (Big Ten Academic Alliance): In partnership with seven Big Ten-affiliated university presses, the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs announces the expansion of the Big Ten Open Books project with the publication of the second 100-book collection. The second collection is centered […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Selected articles and volumes of AAPT Studies are available open access via the PDC website.| philosophyteachers.org
In this guest post, Donna Coventry and Luqman Hayes discuss the value of Tuwhera, an open access platform supported by Research Services and Digital Development teams at Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services at AUT (Auckland University of Technology) in Aotearoa, New Zealand.| DOAJ Blog
Below is an interview with Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS (Public Library of Science) discussing the impact of AI on publishing […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Un bell’articolo sul Guardian fa il punto sullo stato dell’editoria scientifica. L’autore, Ian Sample, parte dal famosissimo caso della immagine del ratto con un pene gigante che ha fatto il giro del mondo e che è stata ritirata da Frontiers tre giorni dopo la pubblicazione insieme all’articolo. Questo episodio purtroppo non è isolato, ma è …| Open Science @Unimi
We've reached an important historical inflection point in the funder/author/publisher triangular relationship. The post …so what exactly is going on between publishers and the NIH? first appeared on ACRLog.| ACRLog
Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the rise of open access publishing, commercial publishers have grasped the opportunity to grow their profits from article-processing-charges (APCs). Whereas in the past, journals competed to be the most highly respected outlet, now they compete to publish on the grounds of speed and quantity of publications (see e.g. Timmis et al, 2025). | BishopBlog
"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 decision." 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| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The John Maddox Prize has been awarded annually since 2012 to “researchers who have shown great courage and integrity in standing up for science and scientific reasoning against fierce opposition and hostility”. The prize is a joint initiative between the journal Nature and the Sense about Science charity. Fergus Kane nominated Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub, for the prize in 2018. While selected to a final shortlist, she did not win. Dr. Kane has nominated …| Satoshi Village
On April 22, 2015 my research was formally accepted to PLOS Computational Biology. 68 days later the article has yet to be published. My current project builds on the forthcoming study and would benefit from its publication. Frustrated, I decided to investigate whether such delays are commonplace at PLOS. Publication and acceptance delays at PLOS I started by retrieving all PubMed records for the 7 PLOS journals. For each journal, I randomly selected 1000 articles …| Satoshi Village
Documents des Archives d’État de Bâle-Ville, Spital A 1 Généralités et documents individuels (XIVe siècle – 1937).| Digital Humanities à l'Institut historique allemand
DOAJ has over 100 volunteers who contribute their time and skills to reviewing applications. We are grateful for the work that our volunteers do, as editors and associate editors, supporting Open Access principles at home, in their day-to-day work, and abroad. DOAJ volunteers come from all over the world, from a variety of backgrounds, and...| DOAJ Blog
Matt Hodgkinson, Head of Editorial, DOAJ| DOAJ Blog
In June, we published an FAQ for authors and librarians to give some guidance on how they might respond to NIH’s accelerated implementation of its public access plan, which requires immediate availability of sponsored research articles upon publication. Our FAQ from June is still good advice, but since then both the NIH and several publishers have updated their guidance and so we are giving some additional information about the latest here.| Blog – Authors Alliance
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Dopo Karen Maex ed EUA, un contributo di oltreoceano apparso su Chronicle of higher education. Il titolo parla da sé: What RFK Jr. Got Right About Academic Publishing. The system no longer works for anyone except corporate publishers (Ringrazio Luca de Fiore per la segnalazione).| Open Science @Unimi
From a Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Announcement: On July 8, 2025, COAR officially launched the COAR International Repository Directory (IRD). The IRD will act as an authoritative source of information about repositories, providing the community with an accurate and timely record of the current repository landscape. This is more important than ever now […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From the Open Science Monitoring Initiative: To fully take advantage of the adoption of the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, transparent and representative monitoring must be put in place to drive and support the intended change. It is also vital to identify effective actions and priority gaps. To compensate for the lack of global […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Here’s the Complete Statement From NIH: As part of its ongoing commitment to scientific transparency and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible. This initiative reflects […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Ed. Note: Many thanks to Sage for honoring our request and removing the paywall to this article. Title Citizen Science In Libraries Worldwide: A Systematic Review Authors Dolores Mumelaš National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Ivana Matijević National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Tomislav Ivanjko National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Source Journal of Librarianship […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
How do we know if Open Access research is having its intended impact? The post Access vs Engagement – is OA enough? appeared first on Digital Science.| Digital Science
DOAJ is pleased to announce a new agreement with the Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL) which will provide an easy route for 55 academic libraries across South Carolina to support DOAJ. There is a growing understanding amongst the US library community of the role libraries can play in providing financial support for community-led...| DOAJ Blog
In this post, Lorraine Estelle from Think. Check. Submit. details the constant threat of untrustworthy publishers and announces the launch of a new Spanish-language video designed to communicate effective checking strategies for researchers submitting their work.| DOAJ Blog
IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the University of California (UC) today announced a new transformative open access agreement that will accelerate publishing and expand access to high-quality research in physics and related disciplines. The three-year agreement will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish open access articles in all of IOPP’s owned journals and most of its partner journals, a total of 77 titles, and will advance the university’s efforts to empower more o...| Office of Scholarly Communication
Five year agreement will deliver access to UC researchers and support sustainable open access for independent nonprofit publishers This post is a joint press release issued by BioOne and the University of California. Washington, D.C. and LOCATION, June 25, 2025 — The University of California (UC) and BioOne today announced the signing of a five-year agreement to bring the flagship BioOne Complete aggregation to 9 UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory through 2029. Notab...| Office of Scholarly Communication
The NIH Public Access Policy is in effect as of July 1, 2025. In response, Authors Alliance and SPARC have created a form to collect information about challenges or questions faced by authors, libr…| Authors Alliance
Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.| MIT Press
We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and available now on the School’s RESHAPED platform – a new training and research community space for researchers in the Humanities. The […]| University of London Press
How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 2 of 2.| The Scholarly Kitchen
How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.| The Scholarly Kitchen
From an ACRL Announcement: ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research. [Clip] The Open Science Cookbook provides a wide variety of lesson plans and learning activities for supporting […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Historical analysis of bibliometric trends shows scholarly publishing market consolidation over the years. These changes are linked to the emergence of The Big Deal subscription model and Open Access initiatives that have forced publishers into a rapid shift towards new business models focused on volume and scalability. The post Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market first appeared on Clarke & Esposito.| Clarke & Esposito
Transformative Agreements (TAs) can create significant challenges for the society partners of publishers. The post The Challenge with Transformative Agreements and Society Journals first appeared on Clarke & Esposito.| Clarke & Esposito
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is investing in the future of open book publishing by undertaking a review of Open Monograph Press (OMP)| Public Knowledge Project
In this University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication blog series, we highlight the successes and challenges of leading journals published by UC’s eScholarship Publishing program through interviews with journal editors. Our latest interview is with editors of Parks Stewardship Forum (PSF): Jonathan B. Jarvis (Editorial Board member), Rebecca Conard (Co-Managing Editor), and David Harmon (Co-Managing Editor). In a few sentences, describe how Parks Stewardship Forum started ...| Office of Scholarly Communication
The French Open Science Monitor Initiative shows a path toward improving recognition of data sharing and open science assessment| The Scholarly Kitchen
Vannevar Bush's Endless Frontier has served as a blueprint for public investments in science for 80 years--a concept now facing great risk.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Throughout 2025, DOAJ will spotlight Diamond open access journals that we index, highlighting our ongoing efforts to enhance the visibility and impact of no-fee community-led journals worldwide.| DOAJ Blog
As a part of our mission to amplify the impact of the libraries, scholarship, and resources of the University of California (UC), the California Digital Library (CDL) invests heavily in creating and supporting open technologies, open access models, and open infrastructures. But like many libraries around the world, CDL also relies on proprietary systems and depends on closed sources of information. These systems often control essential data about our scholarly outputs and shape how we underst...| Office of Scholarly Communication
Written by Dr Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley. This article is an introduction to the Taiwan Insight–IJTS Special Issue on IJTS Open Access Awards, an initiative recognising high-quality Taiwan-focused resear…| Taiwan Insight
‘Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering scene| Douglas McCarthy
Starting January 24, 2025, OPERAS will no longer be active on Platform X. This date, which coincides with the International Day of Education, serves as a fitting moment to reaffirm our commitment to fostering...| OPERAS
In this new University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication blog series, we highlight the successes and challenges of leading journals published by UC’s eScholarship Publishing program through interviews with journal editors. Our latest interview is with two editors of the Electronic Green Journal: Editor-In-Chief, Maria A. Jankowska (UCLA Librarian Emerita) and Managing Editor and Book Review Editor, Kelsey Brown, (UCLA Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian). The journal...| Office of Scholarly Communication
UC Press and CDL’s eScholarship program are pleased to announce the launch of UC Publishing Services (UCPUBS). Leveraging the expertise of both the Press and eScholarship Publishing, UCPUBS offers a broad range of publishing solutions aimed at supporting the traditional and open access publishing needs of editorially independent publishing programs within the University of California system. UC Publishing Services provides scalable publishing solutions and infrastructure to organized resear...| Office of Scholarly Communication
Open Access Week is the perfect excuse to talk about a favorite topic of mine—making Smithsonian research more open! A couple years ago, I wrote a post about a Tableau more »| Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
The three-year agreement Wiley has signed in India is part of the Modi government's $750 million 'ONOS' program.| Publishing Perspectives
There's been a fair bit of discussion about Clarivate's decision to pause inclusion of eLife publications on the Science Citation Index (e.g. on Research Professional). What I find exasperating is that most of the discussion focuses on a single consequence - loss of eLife's impact factor. For authors, there are graver consequences. | BishopBlog
This post is a press release issued by the University of California, California State University, the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium, and Oxford University Press. The 10-campus University of California system (UC), 20 of 23 California State University (CSU) campuses, and 30 private academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a comprehensive four-year transformative open access agreement with ...| Office of Scholarly Communication
Effective January 1, 2025, the University of California (UC) and the open access publisher Copernicus Publications entered into a 1-year open access agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish in Copernicus journals. The new agreement with Copernicus expands UC’s partnerships with native open access publishers and advances the university’s efforts to empower more of its authors to share their research freely with the world. Under the agreement, the...| Office of Scholarly Communication
This post is adapted from a press release issued by the American Society for Microbiology and the University of California. The University of California (UC) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) are pleased to announce a novel multi-year Subscribe to Open (S2O) agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC corresponding authors to publishing open access with ASM. Under this new agreement, authors affiliated with UC’s subscribing institutions will be able to publ...| Office of Scholarly Communication
Mary Ann Liebert is interviewed about the acquisition of her independent scientific publishing company by Sage.| The Scholarly Kitchen
In anticipation of Open Access Week, ORCID recently released our annual data file under a CC0 waiver.| ORCID
Throughout 2024, I kept thinking “I should post this on my blog.” But it never happened. And that sums up much of this year: so many things going on, but also a layer of inaction that r…| Just TV
An analysis of the inconsistencies in UK museums’ copyright claims over digital reproductions of public domain works Introduction In our online, globally connected era, cultural institutions are vital custodians of history and culture, preserving and making accessible millions of digitised artworks, manuscripts, and objects. Yet in the United Kingdom, a complex and inconsistent approach to… Continue reading Anarchy in the UK| Douglas McCarthy
In the spirit of the season, I am pleased to announce a gift to anyone who wants it: a new open access, multimedia site, The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy, available at videographicessay.org. This site collects both previously-published and new versions of writings by Christian Keathley, Catherine Grant, and me, as well as numerous examples […]| Just TV
by Susann Auer, Tamara Heck, Constance Holman, Ben Kaden, Friederike Kramer, Mika Pflüger, Guido Scherp, Heidi Seibold, Claudia Voigtländer, Anja Zeltner| ZBW MediaTalk
Furnishing fabric ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (detail) of roller-printed cotton chintz, designed by C. F. A. Voysey for Morton Sundour Fabric Ltd., Great Britain, ca. 1920. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.The choices that museums make about copyright and licensing as they digitise their collections have profound implications for public access. In an era where digital technologies are opening up heritage like never before, are some of our cultural institutions becoming gatekeepers? | Douglas McCarthy
FORCE11 conference at UCLA lays the groundwork to continue its efforts to transform research communications and e-scholarship| The Scholarly Kitchen
With a new public access memo and federal agency policies due, Angela Cochran revisits her 2013 post exploring what Federally Funded means.| The Scholarly Kitchen
We are pleased to announce a new initiative to support open access for books, Oxford Scholarship Online: Commit to Open.| Oxford University Press
Each year, Delta Think analyzes the volume and value of the scholarly journals market. This month, we present preliminary results about volumes of journal output ahead of our full sizing results later in the year. Total publication volumes continue to increase across the whole market, and for Open Access. However, Open Access (OA) lost share… Read More| Delta Think
Empower your community. Learn how Bibliotheca solutions can help you create equitable and accessible library services.| Bibliotheca
Earlier in the year, we looked at the latest Article Processing Charges (APCs). This month we look at how they have risen compared with inflation. We saw some larger-than-average price rises going into 2024. Does this suggest prices are rising, or might APCs be reducing in real terms? Background Each year we survey the list Article… Read More| Delta Think
Author’s remix of The Battle of the Pictures, 1745. William Hogarth (1697-1764), Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0Is it possible for the same digitised public domain work by the same artist to be considered both in and out of copyright by different museums within the same legal jurisdiction? The answer is yes.| Douglas McCarthy
Academic publishing is a strange beast, and it’s getting stranger. Authors write for free, reviewers work uncompensated, and editorial boards volunteer their time and expertise. Nobody is ever paid for their writing. You’d hope that at the end of that process journal articles would be inexpensive, but of course they’re not. In 2024, you can […] The post CDJ Plus is Dead! Long Live CDJ Plus! appeared first on CDJ.| CDJ
Open Access made simple with Knowledge Unlatched| Knowledge Unlatched
Open Access made simple with Knowledge Unlatched| Knowledge Unlatched
When it comes to good practices, research institutions are often good at declarations of principles, and not so good at implementation. For example, it is easy to declare that research assessment should be qualitative and not rely too much on bibliometrics, but harder to do it in practice.| Research Practices and Tools
“Science family of journals announces change to open-access policy”: the title of this Nature news article may sound boring, but the news are not:| Research Practices and Tools
In my first post about the ERC’s recent withdrawal from supporting Plan S, I tried to explain ERC’s announcement using publicly available information on the ERC, Plan S, and their recent news. The potential dangers of this approach were to miss relevant pieces of information, and to give too much weight to calendar coincidences.| Research Practices and Tools
The European Research Council (ERC) just announced that they would withdraw their support for Coalition S, the consortium of research funders behind Plan S. Plan S is the valiant but not universally welcome attempt to impose strong open access requirements to research articles, without paying more money to publishers.| Research Practices and Tools
In the context of the conference GFP 2019 on polymer chemistry, I am taking part in a roundtable on Open Access. Chemists are coming quite late to the Open Access debate. The preprint archive Chemrxiv is young, not widely used, and not independent from publishers. The traditional subscription-based publishing system, and the standard bibliometric indicators, dominate communication and evaluation. And when chemists are dragged into the debate by discipline-agnostic initiatives such as Plan S, ...| Research Practices and Tools
Since November 2017, I have been an editor of the WikiJournal of Science, a Wikipedia-integrated, broad scope, libre open access journal. For me this is one way of encouraging academics to write in Wikipedia, by making it possible to publish Wikipedia articles in a recognized academic journal. The WikiJournals as they now exist may not yet be ideal for that, but they are already providing valuable insights into the difference between Wikipedia standards and academic standards, academics' atti...| Research Practices and Tools
The principles behind plan S have already sparked lots of debate, including an open letter denouncing the plan, based on objections that I found not very convincing. Now that the plan’s promoters have published their draft implementation guidance (and are inviting comments on it), the discussion can become more specific. Given the boldness of the principles, their implementation cannot be painless, and is bound to raise criticisms if not resistance. It is therefore both crucial and difficul...| Research Practices and Tools
After a coalition of European science funding agencies announced their Plan S initiative for open access, a number of researchers wrote an open letter criticizing the move, under the title “Reaction of Researchers to Plan S: Too Far, Too Risky”. To summarize, they fear that Plan S would increase costs, lower quality, and restrict academic freedom. In order to evaluate how seriously these fears should be taken, let me start with a 5-point analysis of the issues, before discussing the open ...| Research Practices and Tools
The post Oable and RightsLink Partner to Support Open Access Workflows in Libraries Worldwide appeared first on Knowledge Unlatched.| Knowledge Unlatched
The post Knowledge Unlatched Presents Open Access Heroes 2023 and Usage Increase of 30% appeared first on Knowledge Unlatched.| Knowledge Unlatched
The post Knowledge Unlatched Shares Results of 2022 Pledging appeared first on Knowledge Unlatched.| Knowledge Unlatched
Open Access made simple with Knowledge Unlatched| Knowledge Unlatched
The post Oable incorporates all of Elsevier’s journals appeared first on Knowledge Unlatched.| Knowledge Unlatched
In this interview, we talk to change management expert Charlotte Talmage about how scholarly publishers and societies can more effectively manage change.| Clarke & Esposito
Today the Gates Foundation announced that they will “cease support for individual article publishing fees, known as APCs, and mandate the use of preprints while advocating for their review”. …| Alex Holcombe's blog
My application to OpenCon 2015, the best conference ever| blog.dhimmel.com
A message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth on the publication of the first round of the Generative AI Impact Papers, published through MIT Press's MIT Open Publishing Services (MITops).| MIT Press
Open access has shifted publishers to B2C data-driven marketing with a focus on author experience. This requires new technologies and new ways of working.| Clarke & Esposito
Now in its sixth year of existence, the Open GLAM survey has just undergone a significant overhaul. Here’s what has changed. Since Dr Andrea Wallace and I began the Open GLAM survey in 2018, it has tracked galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) making open access content available for re-use. It’s become the go-to reference… Continue reading What’s new in the Open GLAM survey The post What’s new in the Open GLAM survey appeared first on Douglas McCarthy.| Douglas McCarthy
What does the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition tell us about museums, copyright and digital collections today? Vermeer is a major exhibition of the artist’s work at the Rijksmuseum that brings Vermeers from around the world to Amsterdam. A total of twenty eight works, from fourteen institutions, feature in the exhibition. These are helpfully itemised on… Continue reading 28 Vermeers The post 28 Vermeers appeared first on Douglas McCarthy.| Douglas McCarthy
Fresh insight, important updates and new visualisations into the global picture of open access to cultural heritage| Douglas McCarthy
Are NFTs compatible with the mission of cultural heritage institutions? The post Museums and NFTs – a conflict of interest? appeared first on Douglas McCarthy.| Douglas McCarthy
! THIS BLOG IS OUT OF DATE. For a more recent analysis see this blog ! Dear MDPI, Your journal publications have grown dramatically, and quite extraordinarily. But there are sceptics who suggest th…| Dan Brockington