Thank you, Rene Tanner, for the inspiring presentation on #OER from the US! 🇺🇸 📖 It's a great moment to ask: What do we know about #OpenEducation in Europe? Help us find out – take the #OESurvey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/29W993M #LIBER2026

📣 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧! The 2026 Conference of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, co-organized with @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de and @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social, invites presentations, lightning talks, and posters. 👇 See the next post for key dates and how to submit.

Join us 15 July, 2pm BST for our next webinar where we follow-on from Wayfinders#7 to unpack further library perspectives on supporting non-author-fee models for #openaccess. Full details & registration: bit.ly/4vbjqDJ With speakers: Robin Sinn, Sarah Thompson & Jack Hyland. #OASPA #Wayfinders #OA

EIFL, together with ALLEA, EIFL, IFLA, LIBER, OPERAS, and SPARC Europe, call on EU policymakers to remove persistent barriers and accelerate the transition to Open Science across Europe. Read our joint statement 👇 zurl.co/rN1Bq #OpenScience #OpenAccess #FAIRData

There is pressing need for more accurate climate models to be able to predict future climate change. Ilona Riipinen takes a new step toward refining climate models based on observations & experiments from recent decades. @kawresearch.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...

What are conflicts of interest, and why do they matter? When submitting a journal article, authors are often asked to declare any conflicts of interest (COIs). The term can feel unclear or even intimidating. Our resource explains in clear language. bit.ly/4syM29n

We are very pleased to be able to announce that OBC and @ojcollective.bsky.social have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, committing to work together to achieve a sustainable, open access future, for both books and journals obc.copim.pub/collaboratin...

Collaborating for a sustainable open access publishing future: Announcing a new MoU between OBC and OJC - Open Book Collective

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💰 The Price of “Free” in Open Access How well do we actually understand the real costs behind #DiamondOA? A discussion on the EDCH Forum highlights a new research initiative, exploring hidden costs in OA publishing in Poland. 🔷Join the discussion: bit.ly/4lDkZHm 🔷Join the Forum: forum.edch.eu

I'm representing Stockholm University and the Swedish Node for Diamond Open Access in this new and promising project. I'm looking forward to contributing, especially to developing more tools for #OAbooks . #DiamondOA

European Diamond Capacity Hub@eudch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

💎 Introducing AEGIS-OA: A New Shield for #DiamondOA in Europe AEGIS-OA, a new Horizon Europe project, brings together 24 partners from 16 countries to strengthen a sustainable, high-quality #DiamondOA publishing ecosystem. ➡️Read more: edch.eu/new-shield-d... #OpenAccess #OpenScience

🎉 We're absolutely thrilled to be welcoming our first member of staff at the Open Journals Collective today - Thomas Shaw joins us as Library Engagement Lead and will be designing and implementing our library engagement strategy. 🎉 Welcome Tom! 🎉

🌎 Real examples, global insights, practical guidance. The Open Access Books Toolkit helps practitioners apply open access book practices with confidence. 🔗 Discover: oabooks-toolkit.org #openscience #oabooks #openinfrastructure

OA Books Toolkit

This Toolkit is aimed at promoting and supporting open access (OA) to academic books. It consists of short articles covering a wide range of topics relating to OA books, each including a list of…

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Helping authors choose trusted journals matters — and publishers play a key role. Many researchers find Think. Check. Submit. thanks to the links and guidance shared by publishers. And if you’d like a TCS speaker for a webinar or content for your newsletter, we’re always happy to collaborate.

Over 9 weeks, we shared 7 policy actions to advance Diamond Open Access. They’re not just ideas — they’re actionable, interlinked, and built on real challenges. 👉 buff.ly/ZV9jF6i #DiamondOA, #DIAMASProject

If you'd like to catch up with the @oaaustralasia.bsky.social #OpenAccessWeek event on Community Ownership the recording is now available: youtu.be/bdNdkWG-uCg?... I was honoured to speak alongside Dr. Kiri West (Māori Data Sovereignty Network) & Dr. Alice McSherry (Waiheke Marine Project).

Community ownership: relation, reciprocity and responsibility

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Valuable overview shared by Dagmar Meyer. Spoiler alert: this is only the first elephant we see at #OASPA2025 today… (wait for Malavika’s session later!)

Adding to the conversation at #OASPA2025 about what we can do to change the current research assessment system. We should collect good examples, like the University of Sorbonne, which is using open data for analysis and invest in open infrastructures, see www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

Sorbonne University unsubscribes from the Web of Science

Sorbonne University has been deeply committed to the promotion and the development of  open science for many years. According to its commitment to open research information, it has decided to disconti...

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AGREED the Mandy Hill at #OASPA2025 that we should design a publishing system we want rather than trying to adapt what we have. It would be open by default. Certainly the arguments publishers make for why we should pay for OA underpin how dysfunctional their traditional subscription model is.

POSTERS session at #OASPA2025 - a good set of work being described here. Posters are available www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...

URGENCY - from Stefano Bertuzzi at #OASPA2025 noting we are "living a terrible crisis where we have a breakdown in the shared methods that determine the truth". Again this invokes Merton's Norms of Science - Communism, Universalism, Disinterestedness & Organized Skepticism. We need re-evaluation

Enjoying being at #OASPA2025 listening to a strong panel on the topic of ownership of knowledge (wish you could all be here to hear it). While struck of the (probably inadvertent) matching of the @oaspa.bsky.social logo with the beautiful stained glass windows at the Irish College here in Leuven.

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

Yesterday was a whirlwind at #LIBER2025 but we managed to close the day with a workshop on monitoring of #openscience I’m privileged to be working with such great colleagues in the #openaccess working group as Andrea, Ivana, Alicia and @osiegert.bsky.social Thank you!

Hello #LIBER2025, Thanks for hosting @joannaball.bsky.social, @nielsstern.bsky.social, and me today to discuss collaboration for #diamondOA. If you want to learn more about the #EDCHForum and the #EDCHRegistry, join us for a webinar next week to learn about the potential of these new joint services.

European Diamond Capacity Hub@eudch.bsky.social · last yr.

Discover how the #EDCHForum & #EDCHRegistry can support your work in #DiamondOA! Join our webinar on 09 July to explore these new services, ask questions, and hear from community members already involved. All the informations here: buff.ly/4Xk9wTb

It's conference week!⭐ And we have great news for those who can't join us in-person in Lausanne - the #LIBER2025 livestream! We’ll broadcast several key moments, incl. keynotes & the opening and closing ceremonies. 📌View the full schedule & stream link: ow.ly/gUW650Whoog

Today at 11:15 CEST join @nielsstern.bsky.social @joannaball.bsky.social & @sofiewennstrom.bsky.social in session 4 'Sustainable Operation and Development I' as they present 'Collaborating to Support Sustainable Open Access across Europe' at #LIBER25

Parallel Session 4 – 54th LIBER Annual Conference

Date: Wednesday, 2 July 2025, from 11:15 to 12:45

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Want to catch up on some reading or find out about tools to support #DiamondOA Why not explore the financial sustainability toolsuite of @eudch.bsky.social Follow the link to find out about these 11 resources from #DIAMAS 🔗 toolsuite.diamas.org/toolsuite-su... 1/2

Many inspiring thoughts today at the DIAMAS final conference. Lots to do within @eudch.bsky.social and the Nordic Capacity Centre. One great output is these practical recommendations. Something that can be used when meeting stakeholders on a national and regional level zenodo.org/records/1551...

Part 1 of two articles on how we curate academic publishers for the Directory of Open Access Books based on our requirements doabooks.org/en/publisher... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/03/g...

Guest Post - Trust and Transparency in Open Access Book Publishing:  Part 1 - The Scholarly Kitchen

How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.

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Enabling collaboration across borders is essential to ensuring we can provide opportunities for scholar-led non-profit publishing with increased or preserved quality. #diamondoa We will ensure that the Nordic Capacity Centre, nordicdiamondoa.org, connects to resources and guidelines from the EDCH.

Nordic Capacity Centre for Diamond Open Access

We collaborate to create services and a sustainable foundation for non-profit scholar-led publications in the Nordic region.

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UKSG@uksg.bsky.social · last yr.

The latest from #UKSGInsights: Pierre Mounier and Johan Rooryck "Federating diamond OA in Europe and beyond: the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH)" dub.sh/hpNatCZ

We're delighted to introduce Graham Stone as our new Head of International Projects. Graham will have strategic oversight of our international project engagements & represent us in partnerships with other open infrastructures & relevant stakeholders. Welcome to the team @graham-stone.bsky.social!