From @OpenBookPublish: "Defending Academic Freedom in an Age of Censorship: Why Open Access Matters More Than Ever."
https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-academic-freedom-in-an-age-of-censorship-why-open-access-matters-more-than-ever/

"#OpenAccess is often perceived as a risk: can a publisher risk shifting to an OA model; can libraries have confidence that their OA investments are worthwhile or that an OA initiative is ‘sustainable’; can authors take the risk of publishing with a less well-known Diamond OA press? But in a world where old certainties are crumbling – where #censorship, platform instability and political interference pose real threats – OA offers something traditional publishing cannot: resilience. Once knowledge is openly available, it cannot easily be silenced. In this light, OA is not a gamble: it is a safeguard."

#DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

On my way to beautiful Vienna (a full 11h train ride from Hamburg) to attend this year's AEUP conference #AEUP25 🤗

Together with colleagues from @oapenbooks @openbookcollect and the Netherlands University Presses (https://nups.nl), we will be hosting a workshop on how the NUPs are collaborating with #openinfrastructures in the #OAbooks space to establish a collective catalogue for their presses - this is gonna be fun!

Come join us if you happen to be in Vienna these next few days 😉

https://www.aeup.eu/conferences/2025-4th-aeup-conference/

Do you have experience using the publishing platform Juncture?

Join our Experimental Publishing Group for a hybrid online session exploring markdown #writing & #publishing for deep mapping

🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏲️ 15:00-16:30 CET

Register now via KMeet 👉 https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/markdown-dive-deep/

New blog post from us here at Thoth on #PIDs in #OAbooks publishing - in which we highlight some of the problems being encountered with the implementation of PIDs, and particularly DOIs for books when created by multiple agents in the distribution channel

#MetadataMatters

van Gerven Oei, V. W. J., Steiner, T., Hillen, H., & Higman, R. (2025). Maybe Persistent but Certainly Not Unique: On the Proliferation of DOIs in Open Access Book Publishing. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.fb6181fd

@dltj @mike @infodocket I'm always flumoxxed at OCLC protecting its "data" - when the data is not the point, people don't pay for the data they pay for the services that use the data. OCLC seems to think every MARC record belongs to them but what OCLC has are copies that originated elsewhere. It's as if I had a database of stats and claimed rights on 0-9.

Just read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.

https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231176758

The 3rd installment of the Radical OA Conference is happening later this week! Come join us in person or online! Details on the @RadicalOA conference website 👇🏽 #radicalOA3
https://hcommons.social/@RadicalOA/113876805121390736

📢 We are really excited to announce the speakers, journals, and presses participating in this year's ROAC conference “Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism”, happening on 10 and 11 April 2025 online and at the Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library (UK).

Speakers: Élisabeth Arsenault, Sarah-Anne Arsenault, Lucy Barnes, Simon Batterbury, Marc Herbst, Rupert Gatti, Angela Okune, Charmaine Pereira, Jeff Pooley, Ela Przybyło, Magalí Rabasa, Ash Sharma, Stevphen Shukaitis, Lauren Smith, Alessandra Tosi, Vincent van Gerven Oei

Journals & Presses: darkmatter, ÉSBC, Feral Feminisms, Feminist Africa, Journal of Political Ecology, Journal of Radical Librarianship, mediastudies.press, Minor Compositions, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.

@journalofpoliticalecology @mediadotpress @OpenBookPublish

More details, and registration via https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/

@RadicalOA Looking forward to this!

Today the editorial board of _Mathematical Logic Quarterly_ (pub'd by #Wiley) resigned and launched a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics.
https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/ruecktritt-des-mlq-editorial-teams

See the open letter announcing their resignations and plans for the new journal.
https://zml.international/files/zml-open-letter.pdf

The new journal has a German title but will publish in English, _Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik_.
https://zml.international/

I track these journal "declarations of independence" in the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD), and just added an entry for this one, at the bottom in chronological order.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025

I also track them — and discussions of them — in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.declarations_of_independence

#Logic #Mathematics #OpenAccess #ScholComm

The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝

#dishwasher #parody #iot

Not long to go now until #UKSG2025 where we're exhibiting alongside the Directory of Open Access Books and OAPEN

Find out more about us

Copim ▶️ https://buff.ly/UsB8v2r
DOAB ▶️ https://www.doabooks.org/
OAPEN ▶️ https://www.oapen.org/

#OpenAccess #OAbooks #infrastructure #metadata #OApublishing

📢 New extended blog post by
@copim 's Archiving group, in which we identify a list of features that are deemed essential for archiving solutions to account for the specifics of #openacces content, including #OAbooks.

#MetadataMatters #archiving #transparency #openarchiving

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-open-archiving-network/release/1

Putting the 'Open' in 'Thoth Open Archiving Network' | Copim https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-open-archiving-network/release/1

Shadow Libraries: A collaborative bibliography | Zotero https://www.zotero.org/groups/2346073/open_research_open_science_open_scholarship/collections/R32R7QHN

New partnership between @Thoth_metadata and the University of London Press 🤝

Working together to create an even more #inclusive and connected #academic #publishing ecosystem 😍

🔗 https://buff.ly/rqssFLV

New blog post from us here at Thoth on #PIDs in #OAbooks publishing - in which we highlight some of the problems being encountered with the implementation of PIDs, and particularly DOIs for books when created by multiple agents in the distribution channel

#MetadataMatters

van Gerven Oei, V. W. J., Steiner, T., Hillen, H., & Higman, R. (2025). Maybe Persistent but Certainly Not Unique: On the Proliferation of DOIs in Open Access Book Publishing. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.fb6181fd

Consider joining us tomorrow for our 8th ScholarLed Salon (a check-in with the good people at @Thoth_metadata). Details at the link https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ind2503&L=RADICALOPENACCESS&O=D&X=680057257BEB161ACE&Y=pooley@muhlenberg.edu&P=1506

First DOAB newsletter of 2025 is out! 📰

Read what we've been up to since the start of the year and where to find us later this month: https://mailchi.mp/oapen.org/doab-newsletter-march-2025

Subscribe if you haven't already to keep up to date: https://doabooks.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=a362459f54