I launched the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) in 2009 and #TagTeam in 2011, and have run them ever since. In that time they've been widely used but seldom reviewed. This morning I was taken by surprise when I saw the lengthy review by Lilly Hoi Sze Ho.
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/living-archive-open-access-movement-next-chapter

I was surprised mostly because I had no idea it was coming. (It's a review, and I understand why she didn't contact me first.) But it's also surprisingly positive, surprisingly detailed, and surprisingly accurate. Recommended.

It's true (as she reports) that I'm trying to pass both projects on to new hands.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

I can add the update that I might soon succeed. I'm talking now with several nonprofits whose names you'd recognize as major players in the world of #OpenAccess.

Last week the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) turned 16 years old.

Here's the launch announcement from April 16, 2009…
https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/04/open-access-tracking-project-oatp.html

… and a longer account from my newsletter two weeks later.
https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/73120378-8868-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b

Remember that I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the OATP. See the details in this Google doc.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

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

@mpe
Thanks, Martin. Also see these tag libraries from the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp):

* items tagged with "oa.libgen" (today, 66)
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.libgen

* items tagged with "oa.sci-hub" (today, 81)
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.sci-hub

* items tagged with "oa.guerrilla" (today, 1138) (this captures items on libgen, sci-hub, and related initiatives)
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.guerrilla

All of these are crowdsourced and updated in real time.

4/ But #OATP can't be the only #crowdsourced component of this project.

First, many people who'd like to contribute would rather post to #SocialMedia or contribute to #Wikipedia than tag for a tagging project.

Second, the scope of OATP has is narrower than many contributors would like.

Third, OATP itself has an uncertain future.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

2/ I'm doing this work on three platforms — #Mastodon, the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp), and a wiki at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (@bkc).

On Mastodon, I have two large and growing threads on these topics:

* One thread focuses on the actions of the Trump admin and pushback against them.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113874200243958520

* The other thread focuses on outside efforts to capture and preserve government science data and web sites that the admin has taken down or might take down.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113929148334504422

Although I have a @bsky.brid.gy bridge account to #Bluesky, I'm sorry to say that it only forwards new Masto posts, not the replies that make up a thread. So even with the bridge, Bluesky users can't easily follow these threads.

I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any questions or any level of interest.

#Crowdsourced #OpenAccess #OpenSource #ScholComm #TagTeam

@kdnyhan @mike
Thanks, I hadn't seen this. Just tagged it retroactively for #OATP.

@kdnyhan @mike
Yes. I called this #openwashing because it used the halo of openness or transparency to block regulations that would protect the environment and climate. (Medical studies on the harms of airborne pollution could not fully open their data, for reasons of medical privacy.) Here are the #OATP items I tagged with that sort of openwashing during the first #Trump administration.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=(%23oa.trump+OR+%23oa.epa)+AND+%23oa.trump

But note that #Project2025 calls for both (1) this older kind of #EPA openwashing and (2) direct, unembargoed #OpenAccess (or #PublicAccess) to EPA-funded research, echoing the Biden-era #NelsonMemo. See p 439: "Add teeth to long-standing executive orders, memoranda, recommendations, and other policies to require that EPA regulations are based on transparent, reproducible science as well as that the data and publications resulting from taxpayer-funded activities are made immediately available to the public."
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

@toothFAIRy
I just tagged your archive for the Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp), which I hope will bring in more readers. Good luck in your next chapter.

@pascaliensis
Thanks. I hadn't seen it and just tagged it for the Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp).

@nsunami
The Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp) tracks these with the tag "oa.policies.journals.data". So far we've found 200 (examples and discussions), but there must be more.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.policies.journals.data

4+ years ago the #OpenAccessDirectory started a list of them. But it's still under development and needs volunteers to beef it up, for example, from the OATP.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_open-data_policies

@brembs
I haven't seen a site committed to posting updates. But see the items tagged with both "oa.sci-hub" and "oa.india" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp).
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.sci-hub+%23oa.india

#Romania has taken many steps toward #OpenAccess and #OpenScience (OA/OS) before this month. For example, see those tagged by the Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp, #oatp).
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.romania

It's an extreme oversimplification of OA/OS, and an insult to Romania, to say that Romania "officially joins the global open science movement" only now that it has signed a "transformative" or read-and-publish agreement with the Institute of Physics Publishing (#IOPP).
https://www.knowledgespeak.com/news/romania-joins-the-open-science-movement/

The Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp, #oatp) is back up again after a brief downtime.

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #ScholComm
@openscience

The Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp, #oatp) is down briefly while we work on #TagTeam, the software on which it runs. Apologies for the inconvenience.

One of the best pieces to appear since OATP went down, and one of the best to appear in a long time, is Arash Abizadeh's piece in The Guardian, "Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that." Highly recommended.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA

@benjamingeer @linguistics
Thanks and congratulations to all involved. I just tagged the good news for the @oatp (#oatp).

1/ Two days ago the Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp, #oatp) turned 15 years old.
http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p

#OpenAccess #ScholComm
@openscience

My computer died 11 days ago and I finally have a stable repair. Now to catch up.

Thanks to the IT people from Dell and MPOW for their time and expertise.

And thanks to the colleagues who continued to tag new developments for the Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp).

@toothFAIRy
The Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP) has tags for reproducibility and biology but not for ecology. For a start, see the boolean collection of items tagged with both "oa.biology" and "oa.reproducibility".
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.reproducibility+%23oa.biology