Springer Nature Says It Has Reached 50 Percent Open Access

Frank Vrancken Peeters at Springer Nature goes over key points of progress behind a key milestone for the scholarly publisher.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/springer-nature-says-it-has-reached-50-percent-open-access/

#AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #PublishingResearch #ScholarlyPublishing #SpringerNature
@indieauthors

Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).

Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.

Read it here: https://t1p.de/conf-rep-24

@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory

#Wiley no license agreement with #swissuniversities in 2025 https://www.unil.ch/news/1744106269223
#OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #NoDeal

#OASPA is launching a collective project on new alternatives for #OpenAccess promotion, bringing together publishing, editing, and funding actors in scientific communication.

The goal: ensuring most academic publications are freely available without economic barriers.

More info and participation:

https://www.oaspa.org/news/announcing-oaspas-next-50-project-a-different-conversation-about-the-open-access-transition/

Have you ever asked or considered asking a journal to pay you for reviewing an article?

@academicchatter @academia #academicpublishing

EAZ Vol. 15, No. 4 (1974) is now available online! With contributions covering, among others, the archaeology and ethnography of the Caucasus, physical anthropology, along with reviews of a number of palynological publications and conference reports, including the II Symposion Byzantinon in Strasbourg, the volume is now added to our archives.
#Archaeology #Palynology #AcademicPublishing #EAZ #EAZArchives
Read here: https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/issue/view/103

Redaktion geschlossen zurückgetreten: Wegen Differenzen mit #Wiley verlässt das gesamte Editorial Board die Mathematical Logic Quarterly – und gründet ein neues Diamond Open Access Journal: ZML – Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik.

https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/ruecktritt-des-mlq-editorial-teams
https://zml.international
Offener Brief: https://zml.international/files/zml-open-letter.pdf

A Win in Ukraine’s Academic ‘Metadata War’

Preserving global trust in academic systems' is involved in some coordinated reacytions to illicit ISSN usage in Ukraine.
The post A Win in Ukraine’s Academic ‘Metadata War’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/a-win-in-ukraines-academic-metadata-war/

#AcademicPublishing #AmsterdamUniversityPress #CEUPress #Identifiers #InternationalPublishersAssociation
@indieauthors

UK IOPP Fosters Raises Requirement for Data Behind Articles

The suite of society journals in the UK named IOP Publishing is testing a requirement to have researchers publicly reveal their research data.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/iopp-trust-in-science/

#AcademicPublishing #ClimateCrisis #IOPPublishing #PublishingResearch #ScholarlyJournals
@indieauthors

"On improving the sustainability of peer review" - a good editorial from #PLOSBiology https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003127 #peerreview #academicchatter #academicpublishing

Not a great morning as woke up to very disappointing news about a paper, that I'll now have to submit to another publisher. Considering a) the extra work involved and b) many publishers now give all their content to AI companies, this thought does not fill me with enthusiasm. Another nail in the coffin of my academic life I think.

Our latest #newsletter comes with some #breakingnews. On 31 March, the Swiss negotiations with Wiley were discontinued. We wrap up what happened, how the researchers at our institutes will be affected and provide some recommendations for action, as compiled by swissuniversities. Find more here: https://www.lib4ri.ch/lib4ri-update-39-no-deal-wiley #OpenScience #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

Imagine paying a $3,750 APC and then also choosing to pay an extra $5,000 to have someone (or some LLM?) write a plain language summary of your work for you.

I know this is April Fool's Day but this is actually real

source: https://becarispublishing.com/journal/cer/journal-information#Journal_pricing_information

EAZ Vol. 15, No. 4 (1974) is now available online! With contributions covering, among others, the #archaeology and #ethnography of the #caucasus, #physicalanthropology along with reviews of a number of palynological publications and conference reports, including the II Symposion Byzantinon in Strasbourg, the volume is now added to our archives.
#Archaeology #Palynology #AcademicPublishing #EAZ #EAZArchives
Read here: https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/issue/view/103

For people who want to read academic articles behind a paywall, I have yet another success story for reaching out to the authors.

They don't get a cut of the money you would have paid the journal for a copy of a PDF and are happy to share/talk about their work.

"For scientists, imagining a world without arXiv is like the rest of us imagining one without public libraries or GPS. But a look at its inner workings reveals that it isn’t a frictionless utopia of open-access knowledge. Over the years, arXiv’s permanence has been threatened by everything from bureaucratic strife to outdated code to even, once, a spy scandal. In the words of Ginsparg, who usually redirects interview requests to an FAQ document—on arXiv, no less—and tried to talk me out of visiting him in person, arXiv is “a child I sent off to college but who keeps coming back to camp out in my living room, behaving badly.”

Ginsparg and I met over the course of several days last spring in Ithaca, New York, home of Cornell University. I’ll admit, I was apprehensive ahead of our time together. Geoffrey West, a former supervisor of Ginsparg’s at Los Alamos National Laboratory, once described him as “quite a character” who is “infamous in the community” for being “quite difficult.” He also said he was “extremely funny” and a “great guy.” In our early email exchanges, Ginsparg told me, upfront, that stories about arXiv never impress him: “So many articles, so few insights,” he wrote."

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/

!!! From "Big Deals" to #OpenScience !!!

The Université de Lorraine cancelled Springer (2017) & Wiley (2023) – and reinvests the savings in Open Science.

€500,000 is spent annually on infrastructures, support services and scholar-led Diamond OA – guided by a broad, representative committee.

Hear more in this #podcast with @fresseng and https://mastodon.social/@jflutz

#scholarled #DiamondOA #UniLorraine #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #scholcomm

https://doi.org/10.7557/19.8074

“Look to the Champions of Freedom for All” How #Libraries Can Advance #Democracy Through Opening Access - Watkinson, Charles; McCready, Kate
#OpenAccess #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/196712

Interesting article on #arXiv - I wasn't aware of the early history. Quite a story!

"Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science"

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/

ISSN International Centre has released a clarification regarding ISSN assignment for publications from #occupied or #disputed territories. These include:

Adding detailed publication history including earliest and current places of publications.

Split publications by closing original ISSN records and assigning a new one.

Ensure proper linking of related titles through bibliographic fields and public annotations.