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scinoptica.bsky.social
⚡ Information Scientist | Library Scientist | Sociologist | Ambitious & Agile & Sarrois | Meritocrat | Freelance Consultant & working for Saarland University. Personal website: https://pulse49.com/
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Surely simple to manage for libraries and streamlined for authors, but again a move away from Gold or Diamond #OpenAccess #OA…

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Excited to announce the second lecture of the Open Divide Series 2025/2026. on May 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CEST). 🎤 #OpenScience and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights by Thomas Parisot and Yann Mahé. #OpenAccess #OA opendivide.hypotheses.org/414

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💶 Spending on #OpenAccess in Germany's universities has risen from €6.2M (2018) to over €100M (2024) – a 1500%+ increase. 🔐 Closed Access remains stable and still dominates budgets. 🔗 pulse49.com/2025/05/23/l... #OA #Germany #ScholComm

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l'Université de Lorraine has reallocated the funds freed up when they stopped subscribing to Wiley's journals bundle, enabling univlorraine.bsky.social to increase its #scienceouvert contributions to €134,000 or 7% of the university’s subscriptions budget. scienceouverte.univ-lorraine.fr/en/home/

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Wie offen ist #OpenAccess wirklich? Ulrich Herb ‪ (@uni-saarland.de) gibt im oa_blog Einblicke in die neue Veranstaltungsreihe Open Divide 2025/2026, die die Schattenseiten der OA-Transformation beleuchtet. open-access.network/blog/ein-kri... #WissKomm #DiamondOpenAccess #Bibliothek

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A snapshot of Open Access uptake across domains in 2024 – based on OpenAlex data. Life and Health Sciences lead with the highest OA shares, while Social Sciences stand out with the highest proportion of hybrid and bronze OA. More insights here: 🔗 pulse49.com/2025/05/20/s... #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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🔍 #OpenAccess #OA 2015–2024: A 10-Year Review OA peaked at 59% in 2023, then dropped to 47% in 2024. 📌 Gold OA dominates (45% of OA output) 📌 Hybrid OA rising via transformative deals 📌 Bronze & Green OA declining 📌 Diamond OA stable 📊 Full post: pulse49.com/2025/05/15/o...

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📚 Academic libraries pay vastly different prices for the same databases Joel B. Thornton & Curtis Brundy expose how major vendors like Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society use pricing secrecy and NDAs to prevent cost comparisons. 🔗 Read more: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

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🔍 Dritjon Gruda proposes AI-powered ways to speed up peer review 🚀 Smarter reviews? Less burden! #AI #PeerReview 🔗 nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00526-0

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🔒 #OpenScience Backlash: U.S. Limits Data Access New rules restrict foreign researchers—especially from China—from accessing databases. Meanwhile, Nature reports China has overtaken the U.S. in cancer research output. www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

One of the best pieces I have ever read on #PeerReview, its history and origins, written by Melinda Baldwin. Gladly @ecologistgreen.bsky.social's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social posting directed me to it... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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even though e.g. Publish-Review-Curate combines preprints & reviewing @ecologistgreen.bsky.social is right: "The answer is to fix peer review (...), not to scrap it entirely or pretend it can work ad hoc in the comments section of a #preprint." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/17/g...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Another very insightful analysis from @deltathink.bsky.social: Hybrid #OpenAccess prices increased below the inflation rate, effectively making them cheaper in real terms – quite the opposite of Gold #OpenAccess, where prices rose above inflation. www.deltathink.com/news-views-t...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Not to criticize, just to document the development: Between December 2023 and February 2024, the fee for Fast Track Review at the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) increased from 450 to 950 USD. #peerreview #scholcomm web.archive.org/web/20231217... web.archive.org/web/20240204...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Not to criticize it (unless I'm mistaken), but is it possible that JMIR increased its Fast Track fee from 450 USD in 2022 to 950 USD in 2024? I am only seeking clarification... www.jmir.org/author-infor...

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🚨 Entire Mathematical Logic Quarterly editorial board resigns over conflicts with Wiley, citing threats to peer review independence. Announces new #DiamondOA journal: ZML – Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. #OpenAccess #OA zml.international/files/zml-op...

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🎙️ Kicking off the Open Divide Lecture Series 2025/26: 📅 April 23, 5PM CEST 🗣️ Rebecca Bryant @rebeccabryant.bsky.social (OCLC): Libraries Supporting Open Research – International Perspectives ✨ Abstract & registraion: opendivide.hypotheses.org/369 #OpenAccess #AcademicLibraries #OpenDivide

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After 3 exciting years, scidecode as a company comes to an end. Huge thanks to Laura Rothfritz & Pablo de Castro for the great collaboration! The spirit lives on in new, independent projects. Archive & farewell note: pulse49.com/2025/04/06/c... #OpenScience #ScienceConsulting

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🚀 Open Divide Lecture Series 🎤 Join us for a year-long exploration of the complexities of #OpenAccess. Leading experts will discuss key challenges, from commercialization, shadow libraries & commons. 📅 Start: April 23 📍 Free online event 🔗 More info opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...

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Open-science metrics are becoming more common in research evaluation. That risks recreating the problems caused by citation metrics, warns Ulrich Herb @scinoptica.bsky.social in this week's Research Europe @resprofnews.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

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