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Martina Dvořáková

@martidvorako.bsky.social

Editor @ Masaryk University Press, secretary to the @aeup-eu.bsky.social board, #DiamondOA advocate, passionate #coffeelover.

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Professor Caroline Edwards@theblochian.bsky.social · 4d ago

MAJOR NEWS! @ojcollective.bsky.social has been awarded $711,900 by the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! So pleased to share this news: it'll help nearly 300 journals in 2026 and brings OJC's fundraising total to £1,974,355 so far this year. #openaccess

Open Journals Collective@ojcollective.bsky.social · 4d ago

We're delighted to share news in the attached press release that the Open Journals Collective has received a major award of $711,900 from the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! Want to know more about OJC? Visit www.openjournalscollective.org

Press Release Date: 3 September 2026 We’re delighted to announce that Open Journals Collective (OJC) has been awarded a $711,900 grant by the Gates Foundation. This grant will enable OJC to scale its operations in 2027 and 2028. Since launching on 29 January 2026, OJC has raised $2.6M in library investment for the first year of its programme. Funds raised will provide financial support to 278 diamond open access journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science, engineering, technology and mathematics. The 2-year grant will accelerate OJC’s development, including building core technical features that leverage current open infrastructure. These comprise usage dashboards for libraries and authors, financial reporting tools, and a community engagement hub for journals and publishers. It will also support the legal and financial groundwork needed to share raised library funds equitably and transparently across OJC’s journals collections. Professor Caroline Edwards, OJC Executive Director, said of the award: “It’s fantastic that this grant from the Gates Foundation will strengthen OJC’s potential to offer a fairer alternative to Article Processing Charges and Transformative Agreements. Supporting OJC at this critical early stage is a strong endorsement of OJC’s community-governed approach to building open publishing infrastructure. This is the way to address inequities in the current academic publishing landscape and encourage university libraries to transition their budgets away from exploitative commercial agreements.” Open Journals Collective is a Collective Community Interest Company (CIC) based in the UK. A CIC is a special type of limited company that exists to benefit the community rather than private shareholders. OJC is currently in the process of setting up a UK-based Charity, the Open Journals Collective Foundation, which will oversee the running of the CIC from 2027 onwards.
Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Perhaps it is time to set aside the reflexive scepticism, engage seriously with the evidence, and acknowledge that #DiamondOA is not an ideological experiment waiting to happen." I really appreciate the sharp coment by Dr. Marko Vrandečić here: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/16/g...

Guest Post — From Parasitism to Symbiosis: Escaping Peer-Pressure and For-Profit Publishers Through Diamond Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen

Two environmental researchers argue that open-access publishing has undergone major “environmental” shifts, triggering rapid and far-reaching evolutionary responses, not unlike natural ecocystems.

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Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The real challenge is not simply making articles free to read. It is building sustainable, trusted systems through which knowledge can be created, reviewed, shared, preserved, and reused as a global public good." 💎 #DiamondOA scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/from-buyin...

From Buying Access to Building Infrastructure: Why Open Access Must Move Beyond Transformative Agreements

Our next guest post is from Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science at CERN, who updates on what is next for Open Research Europe and why it matters.

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Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"We have a publishing system optimized for volume, financed by uncompensated labor, controlled by profit-seeking entities, producing increasingly incremental work, now facing an AI-driven capacity to generate competent manuscripts at near-zero marginal cost." 🫣 pardoguerra.org/2026/05/09/i...

It’s time to get rid of the peer-reviewed paper

The peer-reviewed journal article, perhaps the single most important device behind the expansion of scientific knowledge in the last century, is an extraordinarily expensive way to share novelty: e…

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Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Disseminating research in local or regional languages that are relevant to local, regional, or specialized societal needs is just as important as advancing the international scholarly discussion that is conducted in English." @johanrooryck.bsky.social 👏 katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Equity in Open Access Means Thinking Beyond Fees

Diamond open access pushed the conversation from free-to-read to free-to-publish. It’s time to think of equity more broadly.

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Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"(...)a critical mass of open-access supporters has finally come to the realisation that APCs are just another form of toll access,” Anderson continued. 🥳https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/loss-faith-gold-open-access-funders-withdraw-support

‘Loss of faith’ in gold open access as funders withdraw support

With politicians and science funders becoming more vocal about publishers’ profits, experts predict shift in focus to different forms of free-to-read distribution

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Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#OpenScience is core to a modern, effective, and secure research and innovation system and we urgently need to reduce the economic, organisational and legal barriers to it. The ERA Act offers a timely opportunity to make progress towards this goal.

SPARC Europe@sparc-eu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

SPARC Europe, together with ALLEA, @eifl.bsky.social, @ifla.org, @libereurope.bsky.social, and @operaseu.bsky.social, is calling on EU policymakers to remove persistent barriers and accelerate the transition to Open Science across Europe 👉️ doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OpenScience #OpenAccess #ERAAct

Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#OpenScience isn’t really about economic efficiency – this is about who controls access to publicly funded knowledge and how moving the public subsidy of academic endeavour away from the hands of private publishers remains a key driver for change. 👉 scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/economies-...

Economies of Open Science: It’s not actually about the economy, stupid*

A Technopolis report states a 2% economic devaluation if there isn't an open future. But does this miss the point?

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Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"If we’re being honest, a system that extracts value from global knowledge while concentrating prestige, access, and profit in the North looks like colonialism slipping in through the back door." -- yet another point for #DiamondOA! (from discussion under scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/06/g...)

Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest post asks readers to reckon with the idea that knowledge reflects power, and the global knowledge economy excludes the Global South.

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Martina Dvořáková@martidvorako.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"The story here isn't that publishers profit from research. It is that they are quietly occupying the infrastructure around it. (...) Universities are slowly becoming tenants in commercially governed scholarly infrastructures." Great analysis by @openlibhums.org: www.openlibhums.org/news/931/

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

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Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 6mo ago

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

CHASE placement opportunity at the Open Library of Humanities

The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available …

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