Martina Dvořáková
@martidvorako.bsky.social
Editor @ Masaryk University Press, secretary to the @aeup-eu.bsky.social board, #DiamondOA advocate, passionate #coffeelover.
I am telling you, academics: just reclaim your journals, don't wait commercial publishers to kick you out, they are just here for 30%+ profit, feeding on public money. (Re-)start your own Diamond Open Access journal.
Stephanie Wang@sweiwang.bsky.social · 5d ago🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky
"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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"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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"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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My pleasure to be part of this great network! 📚
Open Access Books Network@oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe're delighted to introduce the newest member of our coordination team, Martina Dvořáková! @martidvorako.bsky.social. Read more about Martina and her journey to #OABooks 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/07/02/i....
"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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"(...)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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Another journal to join the white side 💪 #DiamondOA
Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 3mo ago'Deal told us the publisher gave the editors an “ultimatum: either we immediately increase the number of papers we publish annually by about 25%, or they would ‘merge’ the journal with another Springer-owned title.”' retractionwatch.com/2026/06/05/n...
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Toto mi dnes udělalo obrovskou radost! Blýská se na lepší časy ⚡️
diamantove.cz@diamantove.bsky.social · 3mo agoUsnesení Rady VŠ z 21. 5: "Rada vysokých škol vyzývá poskytovatele veřejné podpory výzkumu, orgány státní správy a vedení vysokých škol, aby #DiamondOA aktivně podporovali, zejména (...) při rozvoji institucionálních a národních publikačních infrastruktur." 🥳 Viz radavs.cz/RVS-41.html?...
For the first time representing my new home institution, @sparc-eu.bsky.social, at a conference 🥳 #OPERASconference #operas2026
#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 · 3mo agoSPARC 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
#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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"Diamond OA journals struggle for legitimacy not because they lack quality, but because they are poorly integrated into prestige-based evaluation frameworks." #DiamondOA #scienceaspublicgood codata.org/blog/2026/02...
Beyond Articles: Rethinking Diamond Open Access for a Data-Driven Research Future | CODATA Blog
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"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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"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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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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Regular reminder that RELX -- owner of academic publisher Elsevier -- is one of those brokers providing data to ICE.
NPR@npr.org · 5mo agoData brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data. n.pr/4t5Y8GQ
Have a look for support resources in Book 9 of #CopimCompass Thanks to @jofitz.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social for creating and updating! 👉 compass.copim.pub/books/09-ope...
09. Open Book Accessib... | Compass
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This. Here. Is the crux of the matter! Scholars while being the main recipient - or victims - of most decisions in the scholarly communication space, are at the same time, the least involved in co-creating these frameworks that impact them. Credit: @openreflections.bsky.social #CopimConference
Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?
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OASPA is delighted to share the recording of our lively "Beyond the Ivory Tower” webinar about the real world importance of open access today: bit.ly/4bKiHmZ Huge thanks to our speakers for showing why there has never been a better time to engage with the potential of OA as a real world benefit.
Lots of groups are responsible for the mess that open access has become, but special recognition goes to publishers creating journals to capture as many APCs from "growth areas" as possible.
Introducing Nature Progress | For Researchers | Springer Nature
Read a special interview about Nature Portfolio’s new journal series, uniting with research communities to foster progress in rapidly advancing
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New Report Urges Broader Definition of “Open Research" to Include #Arts, #Humanities and Social Science Practices (via @theul.bsky.social) www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morp... #openresearch #socialscience @morphss.bsky.social
"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"
Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways
Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …
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