Journal of Critical Public Health

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The Journal of Critical Public Health (JCPH) is devoted to disseminating critically engaged research in public health, health promotion & related fields. Diamond Open Access. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/

Sewers are one of the most transformational interventions to human health in history, yet they are rarely understood or recognised for their impact. So we are holding an event about them next Tuesday. In person in London or watch online! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/searc...

The secret life of sewers

From the Big Stink to the fatberg, London's history has always flowed through what (and how) we flush away. Sewers are one of the most transformational, yet least recognised interventions in the histo...

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This is a much-needed initiative to ensure a sustainable future for #diamondOA journals. Academics: if you care about a healthy, non-commercialised journal infrastructure, see if your library is supporting this!

Open Journals Collective@ojcollective.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're 61% of the way there! But we need the support of more libraries to get to 100% - please come and join the @ojcollective.bsky.social community! Have questions or want to arrange a video call? DM us, email info@openjournalscollective.org or visit openjournalscollective.org.

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61%

£1,620,399 raised of £2,650,000.

Help us to reach our 2026 target and support community-owned diamond open access journals.

Solidarity with Editorial team of Semantics of Natural Languages, who left Springer Nature (pushing them to publish more papers) to retain academic control over journal. Authors: please, when considering where you submit/review, do support #diamondOA community-owned journals when you are able!

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 3mo ago

OLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages Our Editorial Officer, @maddiesinclair.bsky.social, speaks with the SNL editors about their move to #diamondOA, community-led publishing, and leaving Springer Nature to launch SNL with OLH. Read full interview: www.openlibhums.org/news/977/

We agree: our mass resignation from a commercial publisher enabled us to carve a crucial space in scholarly publishing, controlled by the academic community, for the academic community. It's not about IFs.

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 4mo ago

It's easy to be sniffy about the impact of editorial board resignations on publishing but collective action in higher education is actually pretty rare and should be actively supported where possible.

This is very juicy and articulates most of what infuriated me about #ImplementationScience: “ The field has rarely articulated the ways in which an underlying intervention naturalizes or obscures structural violence because it implicitly grants the premise of the intervention”

Journal of Critical Public Health@cphjournal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excellent new paper from Emily Claypool & Aaron Neiman just out! Ethnographic insights from trials to critique the 'absorption' of institutional logics in implementation science journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...