Open Access Week 2025: Award-winning open access books - MIT Press
Award-winning books that are accessible to all.| MIT Press
Award-winning books that are accessible to all.| MIT Press
Each new change in scholarly communication promises to make research fairer, faster, more transparent. Yet, in many cases, researchers, especially from under resourced countries or from countries where English is not the first language, face added pressure to catch up, rather than to move forward. The post The Next Disruption is Listening — In Every Language appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post is by Meagan Phelan of AAAS, who asks: If more research is openly available than ever before, and open is framed as a way to build trust, why isn’t public trust in science at an all-time high? The post Guest Post — Replacing Public Doubt with Public Confidence: Experiments in Building Trust at Science appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest blogger explains how Drexel University sees transformative agreements as one of the best ways to support researchers and the public dissemination of knowledge, while also benefiting the university through cost-saving measures. The post Guest Post – The First Year of an Open Access Initiative in Review appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
In honor of International OA Week, The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs ponder the theme: Who owns our knowledge? The post Ask the Chefs: Who Owns Our Knowledge? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge. But, as we […]| Scholarly Communications Lab | ScholCommLab
DOAJ is a partner in the European project CRAFT-OA, which aims to make the European Diamond Open Access landscape more resilient by centralising expertise and collaboration, and by offering greater visibility to Diamond Open Access (OA) journals through the Diamond Discovery Hub. DOAJ has been indexing Diamond journals since its launch in 2003. This blog...| DOAJ Blog
Daniel Miele visits two Dutch universities, exploring the shared challenges between publishers and libraries. The post Libraries: Keepers of History and History Makers appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
There are many reasons why you might wish to search for open access materials specifically. This post will examine a couple of tools to help you find OA materials. LibKey Nomad LibKeyNomad is a browser plugin that will return either OA versions of a work or help you gain access to IU-subscribed resources, depending on […]| IU Libraries Blogs
If you’re considering self-archiving your scholarly work, the natural follow-up question is “Where?” Several services exist that offer archiving and CV-like profiles for scholars. This blog post will examine a few of them, taking note in particular of whether they permit document-uploading, how automatic the CV-generation process is, the costs of the service, and a […]| IU Libraries Blogs
If you’re actively engaged in research, you probably don’t need to be told how useful reference managers are. Aside from saving citations, I use mine to organize my PDFs and to participate in collaborative bibliography projects. All of this is saved to the cloud so that it’s accessible from any device. Another reason reference managers […]| IU Libraries Blogs
Indiana scholars use IU ScholarWorks to host a wide range of their scholarly output: manuscripts, dissertations, open educational materials, conference slides and transcripts, event programs, and much more. Some of this material is unique to the repository, but some exists in different forms elsewhere on the web, such as a journal’s website or a conference’s […]| IU Libraries Blogs
Journals come and go. Academic societies merge or fade in relevance. Projects end abruptly. Scholarly work should create a permanent record, but the reality of human and institutional lives can interfere. There’s no single solution to the tides of time, but self-archiving is one popular method for preservation. Self-archiving is a type of open access […]| IU Libraries Blogs
Readers with good memories will remember that back in May last year I announced I would be one of the two participants in the plenary debate that closes the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. I was cast against type, proposing the motion “The open access movement has failed”, with preprint advocate Jessica […]| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Just a quick update on the crowd-funding effort to publish the new diplodocoid volume as open-access papers at Palaeontologia Electronica. The drive now contains an offer that maybe it should have included from the start: “We promise to mention the names of the backers in the acknowledgements of at least one upcoming paper, if this […]| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Anyone who’s been reading this blog for a while knows that Matt and I are both all in on open access. What is the point of “publishing” something that not everyone can read? We always want our work to be available to the widest possible audience, so it’s a no-brainer that we won’t let it […]| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Today's guest bloggers reflect on the the LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne (2–4 July). The post Guest Post — Reporting from LIBER 2025: Policy Influence, Library Agency, and Researcher-First Open Access Moves appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Diamond Open Access promises equity, but sustainability challenges remain. Discover the hidden costs, global gaps, and paths toward lasting open publishing. The post Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Join us for October 20-24 for UC Open Access Week workshops, talks, and more.| UC Davis Library
Like all campus units, the UC Davis Library is facing significant budget cuts. To help address the savings targets we have been assigned by campus, the library has made the difficult decision to discontinue the Davis Open Access Book Fund. The last day to apply for funding for open access...| UC Davis Library
In our first webinar of the new academic year, we will be inviting you to join us for a transformative session on how Coventry University is reshaping access to learning through Open Educational Re…| Copyright Literacy
Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s open access landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges. Ramazan also proposes actionable recommendations to enhance sustainability and international visibility.| DOAJ Blog
We recently received a question regarding the AI scraping of Institutional Repositories, by which we mean online digital archives that […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
We recently announced that we’d completely rewritten Unpaywall to make it faster, more accurate, and (most importantly) easier to fix and improve. We wanted to move Unpaywall from product to process, something we could continuously improve along with the community. Well, we’ve been working hard on that over the last few months and here’s an […] The post Unpaywall improvements: more gold, better green appeared first on OpenAlex blog.| OpenAlex blog
OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area. Its mission is to coordinate and federate resources in Europe to efficiently address the scholarly communication needs of European The post Diamond Capacity Hub Position: Technical Manager, Federated Systems Expert – closed first appeared on OPERAS.| OPERAS
We are delighted to announce that FCCN, the unit of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) responsible for digital services for the research community, will contribute to supporting DOAJ’s mission in Portugal. Portugal has a growing Diamond open access publishing landscape, with many journals run by universities and research organisations. The support from...| DOAJ Blog
As we recognise Peer Review Week 2025 (15-19 September), Head of Editorial Matt Hodgkinson speaks to this year’s theme, ‘Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era’ and how artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape peer review and the wider scholarly publishing landscape. There’s something about automated tools, and in particular generative artificial intelligence (AI), that...| DOAJ Blog
DOAJ and Latindex are pleased to announce a new partnership which will enhance the discoverability of Ibero-American journals, mostly published in Spanish and Portuguese.| DOAJ Blog
Today’s guest author offers a progress report on recent efforts to build open-source technology for open access book metrics.| The Scholarly Kitchen
As AI becomes a major consumer of research, scholarly publishing must evolve: from PDFs for people to structured, high-quality data for machines.| The Scholarly Kitchen
We recently announced that we’d completely rewritten Unpaywall to make it faster, more accurate, and (most importantly) easier to fix and improve. We wanted to move Unpaywall from product to process, something we could continuously improve along with the community. Well, we’ve been working hard on that over the last few months and here’s an […]| OurResearch blog
A quello che è stato definito come un mare di conoscenza in cui galleggia una quantità allarmante di spazzatura anche l’Italia dà il proprio contributo.| Open Science @Unimi
Press Information Department Logo The Press Information Department (PID) of Bangladesh has recently taken a landmark step by releasing its vast image archive under the public domain. These photogra…| Diff
Sci-Hub Undermines both Paywall and Open Access Models Image: Logopedia (CC-BY-SA Licence) As reported by TorrentFreak, Sci-Hub, the notorious pirate site for scientific and academic journals, has been blocked in India by court order after a 5 year court process. Obstinacy and failure to appear or offer a defence on the part of Sci-Hub’s operator, … Continue reading "Sci-Hub Blocked in India: Has the Last Domino Fallen for this Notorious Academic Pirate Site?"| Hugh Stephens Blog
DOAJ operates without grant funding, relying on ongoing and collective community support to ensure open access research remains visible, discoverable, and trusted worldwide. In this post, Managing Director Joanna Ball provides a fundraising and collaboration update for 2025. At DOAJ, sustainability isn’t just a strategic priority, it’s a daily concern. As a small team running...| DOAJ Blog
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
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
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
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
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 avail…| 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
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
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
How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.| The Scholarly Kitchen
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
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
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
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
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
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
Discover how Bibliotheca’s selfCheck software empowers inclusive, accessible library service—customized for every community.| Bibliotheca
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
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
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
