Ulrich Herb
@scinoptica.bsky.social
⚡ Information Scientist | Library Scientist | Sociologist | Ambitious & Agile & Sarrois | Meritocrat | Freelance Consultant & working for Saarland University. Personal website: https://pulse49.com/
My new interview for Charleston Hub/ Against the Grain is live! Michael Upshall & I look back critically at 25 years of #OpenAccess: libraries, researchers’ incentives, Diamond OA, the limits of one-size-fits-all solutions—and how AI may reshape scholarly publishing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXew...
A Conversation with Ulrich Herb, Head, Publication and Research Support, Saarland University Library
YouTube video by Charleston Hub
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The programme for the Open Science Festival 2027 is taking shape. Join this event on 18–19 March 2027 at the University of Bamberg. The Call for Proposals is open for talks, workshops, posters, tools and project showcases. pulse49.com/2026/08/06/o...
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Open Science in a Changing World—The Open Science Festival 2027 Takes Shape: Discover the programme highlights
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Wissenschaftlich publizieren – offen, sichtbar und rechtssicher: Das Online-Zertifikat der Universität des Saarlandes vermittelt praxisnah Wissen zu #OpenAccess, Urheberrecht, Forschungsdaten, Forschungsbewertung, wissenschaftlicher Integrität und KI. Infos: www.uni-saarland.de/studieren/we...
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Want a sneak preview of my contribution to this year’s #BiblioCon? "Offenes Wissen unter Druck: Produktion, Einflussnahme, Access-Blocking und Integrität" pulse49.com/2026/05/19/o... #OpenAccess #OA #OpenKnowledge
Open Knowledge Under Pressure – Reflections from My Talk at BiblioCon - pulse49.com
Open Knowledge Under Pressure – Reflections from My Talk at BiblioCon. Is there a need to re-think Open Knowledge?
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New article by Joachim Schöpfel and me: The politics of #openknowledge: production, certification, and control. Our argument: the key issue is not ownership, but who can produce knowledge, certify it, use it, and make it count. #openscience pulse49.com/2026/04/14/t...
The politics of open knowledge: production, certification, and control - pulse49.com
Ulrich Herb & Joachim Schöpfel (2026). The politics of open knowledge: production, certification, and control. Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis,
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Diamond OA is normatively attractive — but structurally limited. Not an industrial-scale replacement for scholarly publishing, but a tailored solution for specific communities. That may be enough. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA pulse49.com/2026/03/23/d...
Diamond Open Access: A Boutique Model for Scholarly Publishing? - pulse49.com
Diamond Open Access: A Boutique Model for Scholarly Publishing? Can DOA transform scholarly publishing—or will it remain a niche model?
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Who owns scholarly publishing? 📅 25 March 2026, 17:00 CET 🎤 Vincent Larivière A talk in the Open Divide lecture series on corporate control in scholarly publishing. 👉 opendivide.hypotheses.org/866 #OpenAccess #OpenScience
Who owns scholarly publishing?
We warmly invite you to the twelth event in the lecture series Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access, taking place on March 25, 2026, at 5:00 PM (CET)We look forward to the lecture: 🎤 “Who own...
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In unserem Podcast sprechen wir mit @scinoptica.bsky.social von der @uni-saarland.de über ein Phänomen, das in vielen Debatten rund um #OpenScience mitschwingt: #OpenWashing. Was ist das eigentlich und woran erkenne ich es? Was sind die Folgen für Wissenschaft und Transparenz? zbw.to/CZFmZ
🎤 Kevin Elliott in the Open Divide Lecture Series! “The Promise and Perils of Transparency and Open Science” 📅 Feb 25, 2026 | 5:00 PM CET | online 👉 Register: unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi... 👉 Programme: opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-... #OpenScience #Transparency #OpenDivide
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🚀Join the Open Divide Lecture Series on Jan 28, 2026, at 5:00 PM (CET) for a lecture by Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri @c-bz.bsky.social & Guillaume Silhol: "Legitimizations and subversions of the Open: for an analysis of openwashing in scientific publishing" unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...
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ROR² – Open and Responsible Research × Research on Research analyzes changes in research practices & scholarly publishing, with a focus on openness, research integrity, platforms, research assessment. www.informationswissenschaft.org/forschungsei... by @c-bz.bsky.social & @freddie2310.bsky.social
Forschungseinblicke: Das Projekt Open and Responsible Research × Research on Research (ROR²) – Informationswissenschaft.org
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📢 8th lecture in the Open Divide series! 🗓 Dec 17, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM CET 🎙 Zakayo Kjellström: “Beyond Institutional Boundaries: Shadow Libraries as Commons and the Future of Knowledge Preservation” 🔗https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r08cc897f355e4874f6cc5ce7298043ce
📊 Kurze Umfrage (3 Minuten) Ich sammle derzeit Eindrücke dazu, wie Social Media beruflich genutzt wird: Welche Plattformen sind wichtig? Wie setzt ihr sie ein? Wo liegen Chancen oder Hürden? 👉 www.menti.com/alqpxa8sz52a Ich freue mich über jede Teilnahme – und über Reposts. Danke euch! 🙌
My book Scholarly Publishing in Transition is now available #OpenAccess dx.doi.org/10.22028/D29... More info: pulse49.com/scholarly-pu...
Publikationen der UdS: Scholarly Publishing in Transition : Open Access, Peer Review, Quality, Research Evaluation, Standards
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Barnstorming piece by @theblochian.bsky.social in @resprofnews.bsky.social today. @lsepress.bsky.social is v proud to be involved in @ojcollective.bsky.social & part of the change that is coming... Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
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Delighted to announce the seventh lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series! 🎙️ Samuel Moore on 📷 Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons 📷 November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET) unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...
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Delighted to announce the sixth lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series! 🎙️ Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost & Behrooz Rasuli present: 🌍 The Global South’s Role in Shaping the #OpenScience Paradigm 📅 Oct 22, 2025 | 5 PM CEST 🔗 opendivide.hypotheses.org/563
The Global South’s Role in Shaping the Open Science Paradigm
In the sixth lecture of the Open Divide Series, Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost, and Behrooz Rasuli will present “The Global South’s Role in Shaping the Open Science Paradigm — an analysis of the Globa...
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💎 Diamond Open Access promises publishing without fees or paywalls. But: vague definition, hidden costs, unpaid labor & legal risks. Without prestige, DOA journals risk being ignored. Too good to be true? 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience
Diamond Open Access - Too good to be true?
Is Diamond Open Access (DOA) the savior of stressed academic library budgets and OA advocates who are clueless about how to deal with the lack of transformation of subscription-based journals and never-ending prolongations of transformative agreements[1]? One might get that impression from the enthusiasm in current debates on reshaping the academic publishing system, a billion-dollar market that absorbs taxpayer money and serves as a ‘gatekeeper of progress’, with journals determining which research gets published, read, and cited. An ever-increasing volume of research is published openly: Anyone with an internet connection can read and work with such an article. For journal articles with OA, generally, two options have existed: Gold OA for journals that are entirely published without subscriptions and Hybrid OA for journals that continue to sell subscriptions but allow for OA to specific articles. So-called “transformative agreements” make every paper from participating institutions in such outlets OA, but the universities pay for it — instead of paying for subscriptions[2]. These contracts come with a plethora of problems[3] and Gold OA struggles with its distorted incentive for publishers to accept more papers to redeem higher APC revenue[4]. DOA is meant to tackle both: Following the common definition, it implies that there exists neither subscription nor publishing fees. Does that sound too good to be true? [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224 [2] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp8882 [3] http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224 [4] https://doi.org/10.1257/000282805774670112
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Who owns, produces & certifies open knowledge? I shared my reflections as keynote panelist at the OASPA Conference. Read here 👉 pulse49.com/2025/09/22/w... #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OASPA25 #OASPA2025
Who Owns, Produces and Certifies Open Knowledge? - pulse49.com
Who Owns, Produces & Certifies Open Knowledge? - my contribution as a Keynote panelist at the OASPA Conference (Sep 22, 2025)
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📢 Online-Zertifikatskurs „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren & #OpenScience“ (10 CP, Uni-Zertifikat) 📢 Themen: #OpenAccess, Qualitätssicherung, #OpenScience, Forschungsbewertung, Forschungsdaten, #KI und vieles mehr. www.uni-saarland.de/studieren/we...
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🚀 Neu erschienen: Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Wandel Kompakter Leitfaden zu #OpenAccess, Peer #Review, Qualität, #Metrics, Forschungsbewertung, Standards – für alle, die ihre Publikationsstrategie gestalten wollen. 👉 pulse49.com/wissenschaft...
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„Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Wandel“ – ein praxisnahes Fachbuch zu Open Access, Impact Peer Review und Forschungsbewertung.
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🚀 My new book is out: Scholarly Publishing in Transition (2025). It explores #OpenAccess models, peer #review, research #metrics, licensing, and the risks of predatory publishing — with practical tips for researchers and institutions. More here 👉 pulse49.com/scholarly-pu...
Scholarly Publishing in Transition - pulse49.com
"Scholarly Publishing in Transition" – a practice-oriented textbook on Open Access, Impact, Peer Review, and Research Evaluation
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Honored to be invited as a keynote panelist at the #OASPA 2025 Conference in Leuven, Belgium (22–24 Sept). Looking forward to discussing the future of open access with global colleagues! More info: www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa... #OA #OpenAccess
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📚 Erfolgreich publizieren in der Wissenschaft? Strategie schlägt Zufall. 🧠 Einblicke aus meinem Workshop an der FH Münster pulse49.com/2025/06/27/erfolgreich-publizieren-in-der-wissenschaft-strategien-trends-und-tools
Erfolgreich Publizieren in der Wissenschaft: Strategien, Trends und Tools - pulse49.com
Erfolgreich Publizieren in der Wissenschaft: Strategien, Trends und Tools, Workshop an der Fachhochschule Münster
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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📣 Join us for the 3rd talk in the Open Divide Lecture Series 🎤 “The Sustainability and Stability of Open and Closed Access Publishing” with @lisalibrarian.bsky.social 🗓️ June 25, 2025 | 🕔 5:00 PM CEST opendivide.hypotheses.org/435 #OpenAccess #ScholComm #OpenDivide #OA
The Sustainability and Stability of Open and Closed Access Publishing
We are delighted to welcome Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe as the third speaker in our Open Divide series. On June 25, 2025, 5 p.m. CEST, she will critically examine the long-term sustainability of both open...
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Surely simple to manage for libraries and streamlined for authors, but again a move away from Gold or Diamond #OpenAccess #OA…
infoDOCKET@infodocket.bsky.social · last yr.BTAA: Big Ten Academic Alliance and Springer Nature Announce First-Ever Unlimited Open Access #Publishing Agreement in the Americas www.infodocket.com/2025/05/29/d... @bigtenacademic.bsky.social @springernature.com #oa
Excited to announce the second lecture of the Open Divide Series 2025/2026. on May 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CEST). 🎤 #OpenScience and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights by Thomas Parisot and Yann Mahé. #OpenAccess #OA opendivide.hypotheses.org/414
Open Science and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights
We’re pleased to continue the 2025/2026 Open Divide Lecture Series with its second talk on May 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM CEST. The second lecture in the Open Divide Series will feature Thomas Parisot and Y...
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💶 Spending on #OpenAccess in Germany's universities has risen from €6.2M (2018) to over €100M (2024) – a 1500%+ increase. 🔐 Closed Access remains stable and still dominates budgets. 🔗 pulse49.com/2025/05/23/l... #OA #Germany #ScholComm
Library Spending in Transition: Open Access Surges, Closed Access Remains Steady - pulse49.com
German Library Statistics reveals a clear trend: spending on Closed Access has remained stable, Open Access expenditures have surged dramatically.
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l'Université de Lorraine has reallocated the funds freed up when they stopped subscribing to Wiley's journals bundle, enabling univlorraine.bsky.social to increase its #scienceouvert contributions to €134,000 or 7% of the university’s subscriptions budget. scienceouverte.univ-lorraine.fr/en/home/
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The University of Lorraine has been resolutely committed to Open Science since 2016 and the opening of its HAL-UL institutional archive
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