If you want to learn more about the Planetary Research diamond open access journal that will launch in January 2026, we just wrote a FAQ that answers the most common questions we get:
Traditional publishing traps research in a slow, linear process. Republish redefines this as a continuous experience, not a product—creating books, micro-courses, video interviews—to engage wider audiences.
Take control, build your professional identity, & grow a subscriber community. Want to join us? https://www.republish.uk/waitlist
5 Years of GJSD – A Milestone Worth Celebrating - We’re turning 5!
The GILE Journal of Skills Development (@GJSD) has just released its 10th issue, marking 100 peer-reviewed articles published
https://gjsd.gile-edu.org/index.php/home/issue/view/2025-1
We've explored everything from workforce readiness & leadership in education to AI, resilience, & cross-cultural learning.
"We do not learn for school, but for life." – Seneca
These words still guide us today.
MDPI as a corruption indicator? A new preprint shows a striking trend across Europe 
: more MDPI papers → higher perceived corruption → lower innovation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06282v1
It’s not that MDPI = bad. But when it dominates, it signals a broken system chasing quantity over quality.
Ukraine? 
Not in the study, but we see the same rise of #MDPI. We could build better. Instead, we copy the worst.
"The biggest mystery is not why arXiv succeeded. Rather, it’s how it wasn’t killed by vested interests intent on protecting traditional academic publishing."
Very interesting interview profile of Paul Ginsparg in WIRED narrating the history of arXiv:
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/
Another #spotLights episode just aired! 
We’re launching our #biologists100 conference series with @richardsever, discussing:
The launch of openRxiv The role of preprints in supporting early-career researchers What’s ahead for scholarly publishing & peer review
Recorded live in Liverpool, March 2025 by Jonathan Townson & Reinier Prosee.
Yesterday, our Experimental Publishing reading group took as one of its chosen texts Tara McPherson’s ‘Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future of Scholarly Communication’, which appeared in the Journal of Electronic Publishing in 2010.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0013.208?view=text;rgn=main
It has lines such as: ‘While innovative publishing efforts have emerged from a variety of spaces … it is safe to say that change has not broadly swept through the humanities.’
And: ‘The impulse to conserve the status quo emerges largely from humanities scholars themselves. Faced with a variety of threats (both real and perceived) to the humanities, scholars tend to hold on to established modes of working.’
All raises the question, has much changed in the 15 years since these words were written? And if not, why not? Does anyone have any ideas?
#publishing
#oa
#radicalOA
#academicpublishing #experimentalpublishing #journals #humanities
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:
Have you ever asked or considered asking a journal to pay you for reviewing an article?
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
