In a session about #diamondOA there still seems to be the question about its definition. Does DOA mean 'No APCs' or 'scholar-led/not-for-profit'?
#bibliocon25
#bibliocon2025
#bid25

An editorial in _Microbial Biotechnology_ argues that journals aiming to maximize the number of papers published, in part to maximize #APCs, are "promoting an insidious degradation of rigour and quality standards of reviewing–editing practices. Such predatory practices result in the systematic degradation of research quality and its “truthfulness”. Moreover, they undermine the science ethos and threaten to create a new generation of scientists that lack this ethos. These trends will inevitably progressively erode public trust in scientists and the research ecosystem."
https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1751-7915.70180

Since the authors don't mention it, I'll mention that non-APC #OpenAccess (#DiamondOA) journals don't create this problem or even carry the risk.

#ScholComm

Attending #BiblioCon25 in #Bremen for the rest of the week. Happy to discuss #openscience #opendata #fairdata #knowledgegraphs #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Scholia #NFDI #MaRDI #diamondOA #SeDOA #nanopublications and related matters there.

#bibliocon #libraries

The Royal Society of Chemistry (#RSC) just issued a vague and puzzling statement about its plans.
https://www.rsc.org/news/our-evolving-approach-to-open-access

It once planned to convert all its journals to #OpenAccess by 2028. By which it apparently meant #APC-based OA. But after talking with customers in different parts of the world, it learned that some regions "are not yet ready for fully OA." By which it means APC-based OA. "The resounding message we heard over and over is that one size cannot fit all." By which it means that not all can pay APCs.

"It became clear that we needed to adapt our vision for openness to account for a landscape that is increasing in complexity and no longer coalescing around a single direction for open research." As if the global landscape had ever coalesced around support for APCs.

But RSC is still committed to some kind of transition to OA. "We are now shaping our future OA approach to support authors in ways that suit them best in a local context."

If it plans to support no-APC forms of OA, it carefully avoids saying so. It never mentions #GreenOA and never endorses #DiamondOA. (It mentions one diamond OA initiative in Africa, but it's not an RSC initiative.)

I'm guessing that it plans to rely on locally customized #ReadAndPublish agreements. (I've argued that all such agreements use APCs in disguise.) But if so, why not say so? If it has other models in mind for regions "not ready" for APC-based OA, why not say what they are?

#APCs #South #ScholComm

Cadernos de Linguística is proud to be part of FJN — a global alliance of scholar-led, #DiamondOA journals.

We’re committed to a publishing model guided by academic values, editorial independence, transparency, and community governance.

https://freejournals.org

📢 Neue Publikation: Über Mauern blicken - 25 Jahre Forschen im Justizvollzug
Anlässlich der Pensionierung von Ueli Hostettler vereint diese Publikation Beiträge aus Forschung und Praxis zum #strafvollzug Themen sind u.a. Erwachsenen- und Jugendstrafrecht, Haftklima, Entwicklungen der Gefangenenzahlen, Restorative Justice und soziale Arbeit – mit Fokus auf Schweiz, Deutschland und mit internationalen Vergleichen.

https://books.unibe.ch/index.php/BB/catalog/book/42

#Kriminologie #sozialearbeit #openscience #diamondoa

Neue Beiträge! Die sukzessiv publizierte Festschrift für Sabine von Heusinger (hrsg. von Julia Bruch, Eva-Maria Cersovsky und Andreas Lehnertz) zu ihrem 60. Geburtstag wächst und wächst. Das Jubeljahr nährt sich schon bald dem Ende. Die heute publizierten Aufsätze stammen von Maria Magdalena Rückert, Elisheva Baumgarten und Victoria M. Morse. Hier geht's zur Übersicht: https://doi.org/10.58079/12j23 #histodons #medievodons #DiamondOA #dynamischePublikationen

🌞 The 2nd #CRAFT-OA Summer School kicks off next week in #Coimbra!
We’ll spend 5 days diving into tools, training & tech that strengthen #Diamond OA publishing.
Stay tuned for updates throughout the week!

🔗 Details: www.craft-oa.eu/2nd-craft-oa...

#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #CRAFT_OA #SummerSchool

There’s still time to join us for this Open 2.0 webinar exploring the practice of #DiamondOA publishing.

📅 June 20, 2:30 PM CEST
📝 Register: plos.io/4kPjcND
🤝 Panelists: @jeroenson.bsky.social (@OpenScienceNL), Iva Melinscak Zlodi (DIAMAS Project), and @h2 (Global Young Academy)

#DOAJ Managing Editor and MENA Ambassador, Mahmoud Khalifa will present a paper at BiblioCon in Bremen, Germany

Mahmoud will present on “Business Models in German Open Access Journals and the Impact on #DiamondOA Movement” (June 24) #ScholComms

https://2025.bid-kongress.de/?lang=en

Trump’s war on knowledge requires re-inventing academic publishing as diamond open access

A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about a growing risk that we will lose access to the world’s knowledge, because of a failure by traditional academic publishers to place copies of the articles they publish in key backup archives. Although unacceptable, that oversight is more a matter of laziness and cost cutting on the part of publishers, rather than a result of outright animosity to the […]

#academicPublishing #archives #climateCrisis #diamondOa #donaldTrump #fair #nasa #ncbi #nih #noaa #nsf #pangaea #pubmed #samizdat #zbMed

https://walledculture.org/trumps-war-on-knowledge-requires-re-inventing-academic-publishing-as-diamond-open-access/

Die Diamond-Open-Access Zeitschrift apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania] wird von der Stabi Hamburg gehostet.
Mit dem Erscheinen der neuen Ausgabe wurde die Webseite grundlegend aktualisiert und erstrahlt in neuem Glanz. 💎
https://doi.org/10.15460/apropos.14
#openaccess #diamondOA #romanistik

@petersuber @DOAJ But the opposite is also true: Many people whose employers do not pay for them avoid #OA publishing, and this is especially a challenge among early career scholars who often lack funding but also want to reach the largest communities possible. Unfortunately, well-reputed non-OA journals are often more visible than OA journals. I think #DiamondOA is picking up --- but many diamond OA journals are arguably very niche and only known to absolute experts in a certain field.

Update. Here's a published article making a cluster of false claims about #OpenAccess journals: "In the OA model…costs are…covered by Article Processing Charges (#APCs) paid by the authors (#GoldOA); in relatively rare cases, some funders cover the full costs of a journal (#DiamondOA) to make it free for readers and authors alike."
https://www.ssph-journal.org/journals/international-journal-of-public-health/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608614/full

1. It claims that most OA journals charge APCs and that diamond OA journals are rare. But most OA journals do NOT charge APCs and diamond OA journals predominate.

Today the #DOAJ (@DOAJ) lists 21,597 OA journals, of which 13,735 or 63.5% are diamond.
https://doaj.org/

2. It claims that at APC-based OA journals, APCs are (always) paid by authors. But while this tends to be true in the global south, even there it's only a tendency, not a universal truth. In the north, APCs are usually NOT paid by authors but by their funders or employers.
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9

3. There are many ways to fund a diamond or non-APC OA journals, not just by having funders cover their costs.

BTW, this piece is called a "commentary" and might not have been peer-reviewed.

In the rest of the piece, the authors complain about misunderstandings of their journal.

And suddenly you’re in the #OpenScience talk podcast, discussing national approaches for funding diamond #openaccess with Jessica Dallaire-Clark & @samisyrjamaki.bsky.social. Hosted by @aspaasper.bsky.social. #engagements #diamondOA septentrio.uit.no/index.php/OS...

Diamond open access and the view from Finland, Canada, and the Netherlands!

National Diamond Funding - Open Science podcast, episode 60
https://soundcloud.com/opensciencetalk/60_national-diamond-funding #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenResearch #DiamondOA #scholcomm #Finland #Canada #Netherlands

#DIAMAS project final ouput before next week's conference:
DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS RECOMMENDATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR INSTITUTIONS, FUNDERS, SPONSORS, DONORS, AND POLICYMAKERS. #DiamondOA
https://zenodo.org/records/15518745

📢#DiamondOA community: Deadline extension! Submit your contribution to the CRAFT-OA conference by June 15th! We are bringing Diamond💎#OpenAccess stakeholders together for meaningful discussions and sharing. We look forward to your contribution!

5th June 2025, 2 PM (CET), our platform manager #XeniavanEdig will give an introduction to self-archiving policies and how they're implemented at TIB Open Publishing at the @craftoa coffee lecture series: https://www.craft-oa.eu/5-june-2025-2pm-cest-craft-oa-coffee-lecture-self-archiving-policy-benefits-implementation-at-tib-open-publishing-english/. Registrations are open and there will be a Q&A session at the end. 💫

#DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #craftoa #OpenByDefault

📢 Inaugural issue alert / Erste Ausgabe: Language Policy in #Africa (LPIA) is a new journal, supporting the idea that #AfricanLanguages are key to Africa's development, also in the context of #decolonisation
We are very pleased to have LPIA on Bern Open Publishing 🥳 Take a look at the the very first issue here:
https://bop.unibe.ch/LPIA/issue/view/1362
#linguistics #languagepolicy #diamondoa