Read this fantastic @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post by @jacoates.bsky.social! I think superimposing Richard Poynder's thoughts about the OA movement with the preprint movement is superb 👌. #Preprint #PRC #OpenAccess #PeerReview #Publishing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/g...

Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder's post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.

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Thomas and Denis are great people, deeply passionate about the diamond OA community and the work they do! #Librarians - do attend the call & I'm sure you'll have a great time! :) @peercommunityin.bsky.social #OpenScience #DiamondOA #OpenAccess

Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join this month's OpenCon Librarian Community Call Tuesday, April 14 at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT - "Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: from preprint recommendation to diamond open access publication". It's going to be a great discussion! sparcopen-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today we published the Strategic Plan that will shape PREreview’s work over the next three years. By 2029, we aim to shift norms in research assessment so they reflect the values of equity, openness, and care. 👉 Read our 3Y Strategic Plan: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

At @unileiden.bsky.social we are proud to launch our Strategic Publication Framework! www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/12... We are revisiting our publication practices, strengthening our commitment to open science, and aligning our publication choices and recognition and reward policies.

Great to see that cOAlition S is going to enhance its "focus on sustainable and equitable models, such as PRC, diamond open access and preprints". This aligns with some of the work we are doing at @cwts.nl and in @rorinstitute.bsky.social.

cOAlition S@coalitions-oa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1/ cOAlition S announces its 2026–2030 strategy, guided by a refreshed, shared vision: a scholarly communication system that enables rapid, open, transparent & equitable sharing of trustworthy scientific knowledge. www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-... #OpenScience #ScholarlyComm #Plan_S #OpenAccess

✍️ Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!🚀 Tips for researchers: ✨ Request reviews and feedback for your next preprint ✨Write preprint reviews ✨Agree to review preprints ✨Convert journal clubs to a preprint review club ✨List preprint reviews on your lab website

💯this: "Community is not a nice-to-have; it is the foundation of lasting cultural change" - This article presents a fantastic read on the need for community efforts for Open Science to progress! #Community #OpenScience #Engagement #Culture #Change #Academia www.themodernpeer.com/the-loss-of-...

The loss of community in open science: a sign of a failing movement?

Open Science (OS) is a movement that aims to bring about a change to the academic publishing system. Yet, despite being around for over 30 years, it has had relatively limited success. Traditional pub...

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It was a pleasure to share my thoughts on Open Access through the #LinkedIn profile of Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health, Gates Foundation, on account of #OAWeek! @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenResearch www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Celebrating Open Access Week: Why OA Matters | Trevor Mundel posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Hello all! This is Pavithran Narayanan, taking over Trevor’s LinkedIn in recognition of International Open Access Week. As an open access (OA) enthusiast, it’s a pleasure to share a few reflections on...

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"The story of diamond #OA is still being written. Its rise reflects a powerful shift toward scholarly communication as a public good.. But... ideals alone cannot sustain journals." Great post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by my fellow chef Maryam Sayab scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/15/d...

Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen

Diamond Open Access promises equity, but sustainability challenges remain. Discover the hidden costs, global gaps, and paths toward lasting open publishing.

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"All solutions need not scale to inspire and instruct"! 💯

Prachee Avasthi@pracheeac.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New Blog Post: Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You. pracheeac.substack.com/p/scholarly-...

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Jonny Coates@jacoates.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I think experiments are brilliant (whether I agree with them or not) and I still give talks about PRC but the coordinated effort to make that the dominant model is where I find problems. It shuts down other experiments which is the opposite of what's really needed right not, imo.

(1/2) For the 2nd question, I feel we need an entirely different assignment type like "Reviewed Preprint" or "Assessed Preprint" (for reviewed preprints with editorial assessment)! @ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social @crossref.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social

Ludo Waltman@ludowaltman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others. @andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j... Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

@ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social & @crossref.bsky.social are requesting input on #DOI registration for P-R-C model!

Ludo Waltman@ludowaltman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others. @andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j... Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

Speaks for the impact that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social & @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social have come to have on the field! And the exemplary work led by @richardsever.bsky.social @johninglis.bsky.social - both very much deserving of The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2025!

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 10mo ago

Yeah, I think it does that too. One person I spoke to made it seem like it is now an expectation in his (biomedical) field to preprint, but in the same way that it's an expectation that journal brand is important.

This is interesting - it'll make institutions take more (almost complete) responsibility for integrity issues but they may also want to invest significant money (& possibly human resource) to make these checks available for everyone!

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We'll probably also see orgs like HHMI push things like data checks upstream, in-house (many institutions, including CSHL, require faculty to run plagiarism and image checks before submitting papers). I'm a bit conflicted about this because of COIs, some bad acts better exposed publicly, etc. 2/n

Very much befitting - many congratulations @richardsever.bsky.social & @johninglis.bsky.social! 👏👏👏

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

"Self-citation requests can turn peer review into a transaction rather than an objective critique of the article" - @aidybarnett.bsky.social in his OSF @cos.io preprint! #PeerReview #SelfCitation #Preprint #OSF osf.io/preprints/os...

Wishing @tracykteal.bsky.social & team @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social @openrxiv.bsky.social the best - Let "Speed of Science" be the phrase of the year! :)

Tracy Teal@tracykteal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thanks so much @richardsever.bsky.social! I'm so excited to work with you and the team advancing 'communication at the speed of science'. 💚

(1/2) Interesting proposal by @rnls.bsky.social @f1000publishing.bsky.social for @nisoinfo.bsky.social ("or a similar neutral entity") to standardize a framework for #verifications & #checks of #preprints, journal articles and other published output! #Trust journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The need for verification markers on published content - Rebecca Lawrence, 2025

Ethics and integrity cases in submitted manuscripts is becoming an increasingly common problem, whilst retractions continue to grow at a rapid rate. These cases...

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All of this underscores the point above: if we want to truly make research open, and avoid public misunderstanding—we need to actually consider the public (and the journalists who share research with them) in our approach to #openscience, preprints and otherwise.

I am deeply concerned about the research integrity issues we are seeing right now. Including around preprints, but also science more broadly. But I am equally concerned that our fears about misinformation will lead us toward an even more closed, exclusionary science system.

Again, concerns about research integrity and openness go beyond preprints. We saw this in our study of journalists and their use/perceptions of predatory journals, which participants associated with #openaccess: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... [Still a preprint, but accepted at Journalism Practice]

“I’d like to think I’d be able to spot one if I saw one”: How science journalists navigate predatory journals

Predatory journals—or journals that prioritize profits over editorial and publication best practices—are becoming more common, raising concerns about the integrity of the scholarly record. Such journa...

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"LLMs are being used in problematic ways with preprints. But they are also clearly being misused within peer review itself"! 💯 #LLM #Preprints #PeerReview

Alice Fleerackers (she/her)@fleerackers.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you have ever published in a journal, you know that peer review does not always deliver on the promise of "quality control" so many of us continue to expect of it. Yes, LLM's are being used in problematic ways with preprints. But they are also clearly being misused within peer review itself.

(You can read a sum up of this argument on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social — co-authored with @nataschachtena.bsky.social and @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca) blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Preprints at a crossroads – Are we compromising openness for credibility? - Impact of Social Sciences

Natascha Chtena, Juan Pablo Alperin & Alice Fleerackers argue the benefits of preprints risk being undermined by incorporation into traditional publishing workflows.

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Some key perspectives on this 🧵: I love the comment in Robert's article about the stakeholders "missing" from debates about #openscience. Beyond scholarly societies, journalists, #scicomm professionals, and the public need to be included in these conversations. f1000research.com/articles/12-...

F1000Research Article: Making science public: a review of journalists’ use of Open Access research.

Read the latest article version by Alice Fleerackers, Natascha Chtena, Stephen Pinfield, Juan Pablo Alperin, Germana Barata, Monique Oliveira, Isabella Peters, at F1000Research.

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🔊Four weeks to go until OpenFest 2025! 🥳Join us ONLINE for sessions on building diverse and inclusive research cultures, recognition practices, publishing ecosystems, open research communities, and libraries. Full programme and registration links below:

Open Research, University of Sheffield@openresshef.bsky.social · last yr.

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis. 2nd-5th September - all welcome. This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - in all the meanings of those terms. More details and registration:⬇️

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction. All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

(1/2) @maddipow.bsky.social draws an interesting comparison here regarding #PeerReview. I think this could really benefit bad reviews but probably not rogue reviews - the latter consisting of bias, rudeness & deliberate mishandling! One thing it underscores - Peer review training is essential!

Dr Madeleine Pownall@maddipow.bsky.social · last yr.

I can never understand why efforts to improve peer review don’t learn from the decades of educational research about how to do good, robust, constructive assessment and feedback. What would happen if we treated peer review as pedagogy? New in @wonkhe.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/peer-r...

Any suggestions/recommendations for a tool that would allow the audience at a conference to ask questions, but... a. Those could only be seen by a moderator, with the relevant app and permissions (so that the moderator would ask the question on the person's behalf) b. can be asked anonymously Thx!

A lot of people & organizations to thank for this shift! @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social @johninglis.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @jessicapolka.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @neurosarda.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org @embo.org @elife.bsky.social, etc., etc. etc.! 👏

Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social · last yr.

And by heated convos I am referring to the fact that when we launched Gates Open Research almost a decade ago researchers thought that preprinting and open peer review was wild. Now perceptions have really shifted. Authors that embraced a new model have made it much easier for others to follow