Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.... (#paywalled) The article never mentions no-fee OA journals ( #DiamondOA ) or no-fee OA repositories ( #GreenOA ). #ScholComm

Update. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0000000000004612
(#paywalled)

General thesis: Paying APCs is a hardship (true) and the prices are going up (true). Therefore, to help medical students publish OA, medical schools should fund their APCs.

The article never mentions no-fee OA journals (#DiamondOA) or no-fee OA repositories (#GreenOA).

#ScholComm

Open Access Done Right

Important contribution of Elena Di Rosa @verfassungsblog on #diamondoa

If we want #ScholarLed publishing models in science, we need to think about long term transformations (shifting budgets!). @TimSchilderoth @elleneuler

Existing initiatives like @openrewi should prepare with full cost transparency around publication costs. We got nothing to hide.

https://verfassungsblog.de/diamond-oa-funding-scholar-led/

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Forschende, Verlage, Bibliotheken und Forschungsförderer sind die maßgeblichen Akteure im wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesen – und sie alle verfügen über Entscheidungsräume, um Diamond Open Access zu stärken.

JOSEPHINE HARTWIG (@slubdresden ) lotet diese Räume und ihre Grenzen aus.

https://verfassungsblog.de/marktdominanz-bibliotheken-diamond-open-access/

#DiamondOA

Will Diamond Open Access save the publishing system? Or will we find ourselves facing a second DEAL awakening?

ELENA DI ROSA (@ElenOA) asks what it needs to transform the publishing system – this time, seriously.

https://verfassungsblog.de/diamond-oa-funding-scholar-led/

#DiamondOA #scholarLed

Mit der Publikationsplattform Open Research Europe will Europa die Wissenschaft aus dem Würgegriff profitorientierter Großverlage befreien.

Ein Schritt, der längst überfällig ist, meint BJÖRN BREMBS (@brembs )

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA

https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/

🎅 The Researcher Services Unit of the Libraries of Université Côte d’Azur wishes you all happy holidays. We will be back from Monday, January 5, 2026. And if you would like to take advantage of the end-of-year holidays for some reading, you can immerse yourself in the work of Audre Lorde (American poet and librarian, feminist, civil rights activist, and engaged in the fight against discrimination), in the latest issue of the journal Loxias, a diamond open-access journal available on the Epi-Revel platform: https://epi-revel.univ-cotedazur.fr/collections/show/1977

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🎅La mission services aux chercheurs de la direction des bibliothèques et de la science ouverte d'Université Côte d'Azur vous souhaite de bonnes fêtes à tous ! Nous nous retrouverons à partir du lundi 5 janvier 2026. Et si vous voulez profiter des congés de fin d'année pour un peu de lecture, vous pouvez vous plonger dans l'oeuvre d'Audre Lorde (poétesse et bibliothécaire américaine, féministe, militante pour les droits civiques et engagée dans la lutte contre les discriminations), dans le dernier numéro de la revue Loxias, revue diamant disponible sur la plate forme Epi-Revel : https://epi-revel.univ-cotedazur.fr/collections/show/1977

#openscience #audrelorde #diamondOA #DiBSO #UniCA #openaccess

💎 ⭐ @TIBopenpub wishes everyone a happy holiday season and all the best for the new year!
Thank you to all our customers, collaborators and supporters for another year of #OpenByDefault #DiamondOA publishing. ⭐ 💎

💎 This year’s focus on Diamond open access has seen several of DOAJ’s collaborative efforts take shape, from new infrastructure in Europe to deeper support for community-led journals worldwide.

Full summary https://blog.doaj.org/2025/12/19/reflecting-on-a-diamond-year-for-doaj/

#OpenAcess #DOAJ #DiamondOA #ScholComms

📢 Registration is now open for the 3rd Global Summit on
Diamond Open Access, taking place in Bengaluru, India between 2-6 February 2026
📌 Details: https://www.diamondoasummit.org/
📌 Registration: https://www.diamondoasummit.org/registration/
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #DOAJ

Ist die „Open-Access-Revolution“ gescheitert? Nach über 20 Jahren scheinen profitorientierte Verlage fester im Sattel zu sitzen denn je. Aber die Geschichte zeigt: Noch ist nicht alles verloren.

Wieso wir dabei auf Amateure setzen sollten und was Sputnik 1 mit der Zeitschriftenkrise zu tun hat, beschreibt EVIN DALKILIC.

https://verfassungsblog.de/open-access-oeffentliche-gueter/

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA

RE: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@ouvrirlascience/115741587629523791

Parmi les lauréats du FNSO, Diamant'AIR, avec @univlorraine.bsky.social , #INRAE et #OPERAS, pour accompagner et interconnecter les revues diamant lorraines.

Un grand merci à toute l'équipe qui a préparé ce projet, avec une mention spéciale pour @AriciaBassinet qui a orchestré tout ça. Un très grand merci également au Fonds national pour la science ouverte et au Comité éponyme.

👏

#fnso
#scienceouverte
#diamondOA
#DiamondOpenAccess

🌐Sámi dieđalaš áigečála (Sámi Scientific Journal) publishes exclusively in Sámi

🌐Editor-in-chief, Harald Gaski provides some information about the journal and the value of supporting and amplifying Indigenous voices

#DOAJ #DiamondOA #IndigenousResearch #ScholComms #sámiallaskuvla #samiuniversity #samiuniversityofappliedsciences #SamiskForskning

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/12/18/amplifying-indigenous-voices-sami-scientific-journal-included-in-doaj/

"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding

PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities

@OpenScienceNL's largest funding round ever supports 45 projects strengthening #OpenScience infrastructure in the #Netherlands!

🥳 Our University of Groningen Press is involved in 2 projects:

➡️ Joint metadata system for better accessibility and discoverability of Diamond #OpenAccess #books (w/ Delft, Maastricht, Nijmegen & Tilburg presses)

➡️ A national #publication infrastructure for #DiamondOA

🔗 https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-projects-strengthen-dutch-open-science-infrastructure

CRAFT-OA ends on 31 Dec 2025. Do you follow us to stay informed about the #DiamondOpenAccess movement? If so, please follow the social media channels for European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) on BlueSky and LinkedIn. #CRAFT-OA helped build the EDCH, which is here to stay & to unite the European #DiamondOA community.

https://diamas.org/

#AcademicPublishing #NoFeePublishing

Am Freitag hatten wir ein Treffen der Press-Directors von @langscipress. Wir haben das Team, das aus @OliverCzulo, Sebastian Nordhoff und mir bestand um Alena Witzlack erweitert. Herzlich willkommen!

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA

Diethard Tautz and Paul Rainey propose criteria for journal quality entirely apart from citation impact and reputation. While you think over their proposal, don't overlook their case for some of the ways we'd benefit from having good criteria (no matter who first proposed them):
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00649-5

1. They could help us assess the justification for "public payments for journal services, such as #OpenAccess fees" or #APCs.

2. They could help "immunize against the predatory and fraudulent practices that are currently threatening the scientific publication system."

3. They could help funders "finance journals according to the Diamond open-access [#DiamondOA] standards as a basic infrastructure for science."

#ScholComm

Thanks to @c-bz.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy for naming me one of the notable contributors to the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 over the last 30 years. journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/... #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Thanks to @boukacemzeg for naming me one of the notable contributors to the (#DiamondOA) 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 over the last 30 years.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/8761/