AN EVENING WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA Joined the presale queue. £204 per person + the Ticketmaster scalping fee. Rapidly left the queue. Sat in the sunshine and thought what I could do with the £400+ I've just saved myself. Seriously!? I'm not sure @barackobama.bsky.social needs that kind of moolah.

🚨 New Opinion Piece 🚨 Vaucher & Thomas discuss the sustainability and equity of different Open Access publishing paths and promote a shift towards Diamond OA. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk... @romainvaucher.bsky.social, @camthomas.bsky.social

Publishers produce "scientometric pseudoscience by proposing quantitative metrics, such as citation counts, impact factors, etc. Although the limitations and pitfalls of these metrics have been extensively documented many public policies continue to rely solely on these indicators to assess science"

Open Access Tracking Project@oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4w ago

Making scientific knowledge free for all https://theconversation.com/making-scientific-knowledge-free-for-all-286857

Helping a friend apply for a job at @springernature.com, which utilises MyWorkdayJobs. My friend has now lost over two hours of work on that system, and he is no longer pursuing the job. How many great people do companies lose in recruitment because they use terrible systems like this one?

The politics of knowledge infrastructure is no longer an abstract concern; it is policy. Publishers and platform providers are squarely in the crosshairs of this huge shift in legislation and policymaking. A piece on this in Scholarly Futures last week: scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/from-infra...

I saw that Marjane Satrapi died aged only 56. I only know her as the author of the Persepolis graphic novel (and the subsequent film). So I searched for more over lunch, and her family said that she had "died of sadness" over her husband's death. What a world.

The politics of knowledge infrastructure is no longer an abstract concern; it is policy. Publishers and platform providers are squarely in the crosshairs of this huge shift in legislation and policymaking. A piece on this in Scholarly Futures last week: scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/from-infra...

Open Access is not sovereignty if the infrastructure layer it sits on is dependent on commercial platforms. The OA label describes the content layer. It says nothing about the infrastructure layer. Knowledge sovereignty, Diamond OA, and open infrastructure: open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

The European Research Area (ERA) Act will create a European framework that will transform copyright, research assessment, and data-sharing. It will govern how research is published, accessed, and evaluated. If you're involved in scholarly communications, you need to give this Act your attention.

The European Research Area (ERA) Act will create a European framework that will transform copyright, research assessment, and data-sharing. It will govern how research is published, accessed, and evaluated. If you're involved in scholarly communications, you need to give this Act your attention.

Open Access is not sovereignty if the infrastructure layer it sits on is dependent on commercial platforms. The OA label describes the content layer. It says nothing about the infrastructure layer. Knowledge sovereignty, Diamond OA, and open infrastructure: open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

NEW POST | 'Morepress platform: Advancing Open Access Publishing at the University of Zadar' #OA The latest post in our series 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' is by Ivana Morić Filipović, Head of Publishing at Zadar: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/05/07/m...

💎 In PKP's Archipelago, Regional Feature: Reflections from the 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOpenAccess in conversation with Mark Huskisson (@markhusk.bsky.social) This article is packed full! India #OA landscape, #OpenJournalSystems use, important takeaways and more: pkp.sfu.ca/2026/03/31/r...

Reflections from the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Conversation with PKP’s Mark Huskisson - Public Knowledge Project

PKP's Mark Huskisson is interviewed by Famira Racy to discuss the diamond landscape in India, use of PKP software, sustainability, and key takeaways for PKP Communities.

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📰 Inside PKP's community newsletter, "Archipelago" * Interview w/ new Managing Director, Teresa Lee * Demystifying #FOSS w/ Alec Smecher * Reflections - 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA w/ @markhusk.bsky.social * #OpenJournalSystems OJS 3.6 And more: lists.publicknowledgeproject.org/archive/arch...

Interesting contrast on my timeline this morning from LILAC on information literacy and UKSG. Both are being held simultaneously. There are 3 vendors at @lilacconf.bsky.social, meanwhile @uksg.bsky.social is a joint publisher and library conference (and those who supply them with tech and services).

Europe is getting serious about #OpenScience and #DiamondOA at the launch of Open Research Europe at CERN. A two-year development of Open Journal Systems (OJS) from Public Knowledge Project, @pkp.sfu.ca that will be fully and freely available to the global community of 55,000 journals via OJS3.6

The complete lack of understanding about what it means to establish research, data, and scientific sovereignty amongst senior members of the UK's research community and government is shocking. Their belief is that they own that knowledge and are protecting it from future AI and big tech threats.

→ Reminder: less than a week before Érudit Town Hall⁠! ⏱️ Join us to learn more about our activities over the past year, the evolution of our team, and our vision for the future of #OpenAccess. ⁠📆 February 26, 1 pm (EST)⁠ 📍 Online 👉 Register: apropos.erudit.org/erudit-town-... Come chat with us!

Érudit Town Hall 2026

Please join us on February 26 for our virtual event, Érudit Town Hall where we'll highlight our current activities and discuss our plans for the future.

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At the #CopimConference we're talking about limited resources to pay for funding OA. Do we rephrase the contributions to OA as a transaction for our paymasters and institutional SLTs? eBook collections of 700k are bought because they give access to the books, you get 17m+ articles through OJS alone.

I'll be attending the Scholarly Social in London ahead of the COPIM Conference and to celebrate the end of the Researcher to Reader Conference. See you at Mables if you're attending either event or just in the neighbourhood @copim.bsky.social @r2rconf.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/schol...

Reserve your space – Scholarly Social February 25, 2026 – Mabel's Tavern

Scholarly Social February 25, 2026 – Mabel's Tavern, Wed 25 Feb 2026 - We are delighted to invite you to the next Scholarly Social in London on Wednesday February 25. Please join us then at Mabel's Ta...

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Starting in 5 minutes. A recording will be made available later this week if you can't make it to the webinar today.

Mark Huskisson@markhusk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A free and open source editor able to export JATS XML and HTML has been a long time coming. Today's update on the @pkp.sfu.ca roadmap includes the introduction of end-to-end production workflows within the journal environment for OJS3.6 🙌 [8amPST/4pm GMT/ 5pm CST]. www.eventbrite.ca/e/pkps-devel...

A free and open source editor able to export JATS XML and HTML has been a long time coming. Today's update on the @pkp.sfu.ca roadmap includes the introduction of end-to-end production workflows within the journal environment for OJS3.6 🙌 [8amPST/4pm GMT/ 5pm CST]. www.eventbrite.ca/e/pkps-devel...

PKP’s Development News Webinar | February 2026

Join PKP's webinar to explore the development of our scholarly publishing software. This webinar is open to all our community members.

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I'm doing a joint task where I returned to using @microsoft.com Word for the first time in ages. What an utter pile of [insert word here] that software is. Why on earth do your institutions spend so much money for what is, at best, a very average program? It's awful, crashing, buggy, clunky... yuk.

I mean... you would, wouldn't you?

Pragya Chaube is absolutely smashing it at the Global #DiamondOA Summit. Expressing her deep frustration at the barriers that the academic incentives system creates for early-career researchers and researchers worldwide. A gifted, dynamic, and erudite communicator cutting through clear frustration.

Devika Madalli describes the Bharat Open Science Platform during her One Nation, One Subscription presentation at the Global #DiamondOA Summit. BOSP is the new OA publishing infrastructure by INFLIBNET for Indian Journals based on #OJS from PKP (@pkp.sfu.ca) for open research for all Indian research

Tracy Creagh (QUT) from the Australasian Diamond Community of Practice assesses OA initiatives across ANZ at the #DiamondOA Summit. Stressing the importance of OASPA, DOAJ, ALMASI, and DIAMAS amongst many others @oaspa.bsky.social @creaght.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social @almasiproject.bsky.social

Vanessa Proudman introduces the ALMASI Project to the Global DiamondOA Summit. A landscape scan of Africa, Europe, and Latin America indicates this critical infrastructure operates on $6m per year, calling for better support for these tools & services @almasiproject.bsky.social @operaseu.bsky.social

Loving Zoom's captions at this #DiamondOA conference. I quote: "Read before. And so, I mean? And let's say, right? Okay, well, my relative stress on them. Well, please. She now said, ah! dysactic. rational. vocation. Okay, that was your lap. On an array platform with Zoom. Exists okay for ourselves"

Anuradha Agrawal (ICAR) – Agricultural research needs to be shared for the wide harvest of humanity ...the current dominant model of scholarly communications builds walls where we build bridges. We aim to dismantle those walls to enable a true open sharing of knowledge for the public good #DiamondOA