OACIP and Weave Logos stacked.
New guest blog from Weave: Journal of Library User Experience editors highlights how OACIP support strengthens their open access model and deepens UX community engagement.
Read more: https://ow.ly/pr9T50YneUT
Michigan Publishing #OpenAccess #UserExperience #DiamondOA #OACIP
Blue background with geometric structure made of white sticks and black banner reading Environmental Humanities Volume 17 Issue 3 November 2025
We are pleased that our journal, Environmental Humanities, is part of the OACIP 2025-2026 cohort. This group of nine Diamond OA journals is accepting contributions through 7/31.
Learn more about OACIP: buff.ly/vTVZP1q @wearelyrasis.bsky.social
Access Environmental Humanities: buff.ly/kwx0PgI
"Diamond Open Access on the rise" above multicolored diamond.
Lyrasis, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Center for Library Programs and the California Digital Library have been awarded a grant to advance community-governed, open access scholarly publishing in the United States. Read more about the #DiamondOA mapping project here, https://ow.ly/QCKC50Xu6vU.
🧰The OA Journals Toolkit provides guidance for new and established #OpenAccess journals to navigate the rapidly changing #ScholarlyPublishing landscape
@oaspa.bsky.social
🆕New content on Accessibility Remediation Resources has just been released:
www.oajournals-toolkit.org/getting-star...
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Starting now: It’s Time to Rally: Stakeholder Engagement in the U.S. Diamond Open Access Landscape
“Diamond open access did not grow in spite of decentralization -- it grew because of it.” @lalair.bsky.social
#chsconf2025 #charleston2025
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"We're trying to get up to the standards of other parts of the globe."
"We're figuring out who we are"
#chsconf2025
Word cloud of diamond open access values, including public good, community-led- equitable,
"Diamond open access leads with its values, and as you can see, the values make a very pleasing word cloud." The value of diamond #openaccess, however, is much harder to put in a word cloud. @camitchell.bsky.social #chsconf2025 #charleston2025
"If we want to see diamond #openaccess flourish as more than just part of a patchwork... we will have to rally together. No one is coming to build this for us. The future of diamond open access in the United States will depend on the choices we make." @lalair.bsky.social #chsconf2025 #charleston2025
The new OACIP Journals are here!!!
Every new round reminds me how much community, trust, and shared commitment matter in building sustainable open access publishing.
Deep deep gratitude to all the editors, libraries, and partners who keep showing up for this work. You make this possible.
Lyrasis is hiring for 2 new (US-based preferred) remote roles on the CSCI team! Support open access and community-driven publishing. Apply by June 25:
Community Engagement Strategist, OACIP: tinyurl.com/2ebm2kse
Strategist, Content & Scholarly Communication Initiatives: tinyurl.com/3va9y3bs
Lyrasis invites institutions to support @leverpress.bsky.social, a library-led, Diamond open access monograph publishing program. By joining, libraries become part of a growing community dedicated to advancing open access book publishing! Learn more here, ow.ly/NssC50Vi95S.
#OpenAccess
And to instead spend our funds supporting non-profit and academy-based publishers who share our values and deliver value. But I don't blog anymore, so this will do.
I would suggest that maybe this budget crisis is the time to finally say NO to spending precious library dollars to fill the pockets of shareholders of for-profit publishers who routinely report stupid high profits margins ..
Book cover for "Our Little Life" by Jose Antonio Villareal, edited by Juan Velasco. The cover has an image of a line drawing of a bandido on a horse with some hills in the background. The drawing is from an early 1970s flyer for a local reading Velasco did in California.
Book cover for "Traditional Chinese Children's Primers: A Sourcebook" translated and edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo. The cover has an image of a Chinese painting: a mom holding a baby and handing it off to a nurse/maid.
The first books in @leverpress.bsky.social's Re-Editions series are out this year!
The first (May) is the archival manuscript of José Villarreal's groundbreaking Chicano novel Pocho, originally called Our Little Life!
The second (Nov) is a selection of Chinese children's primers.
Congratulations to @projectmuse.bsky.social on meeting its #sustainability goal for 2025! IReL is delighted to have played a small role in this achievement by providing our members with access to #ProjectMUSE and benefiting its #SubscribeToOpen initiative. #S2O
I love this idea so much.
If you have connections with universities, foundations, or other groups that might be interested in partnering reach out to @sciencewriters.org and @sciencewriting.bsky.social. We are committed to making this conference happen!
US Bioethics colleagues: I'm talking with Cdn bioethics colleagues about how we can support you, even if it's only by providing a space for free speech, such as the Canadian Journal of Bioethics (cjb-rcb.ca). And if you have to publish anonymously, we can do that as well.
Friends and colleagues: if you have work that has previously been made available via #PubMed or other federal infrastructure, please find other ways to share it. For instance: KC Works is a non-profit, community-governed repository (built on top of CERN's InvenioRDM). works.hcommons.org
As individuals it’s difficult to get things in motion, as a group we can...
Science is currently being attacked in multiple ways in the US right now.
Don’t let this happen. And we in Europe should not let this happen either.
Consider signing! Read further:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Dear President Zelensky,
As it is likely that our paths will never cross in person, I could not let this day go by without trying to reach you here.
I come to you humbly as an American citizen who is thoroughly and completely embarrassed of our leaders.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...
Subscribe to Open isn't perfect (IMO), but it is great to see no-fee diamond OA models succeeding and being praised. These are the future.
I am so excited by this achievement! Congratulations to @projectmuse.bsky.social and all the publishers that participated.
We're putting the finishing touches to a little one-day meeting at Cambridge on community-led publishing where we'll explore the diamond OA and community-led journal landscape at Cambridge. It's on May 13th at the West Hub in Cambridge -- more soon!
The number 40 on a white background with a blue 4 and a red 0. There are streamers around the numbers.
We've reached 40,000 #OAbooks in the OAPEN Library! 🥳
The transition to #openaccess for books is far from complete, but this milestone is proof great things are happening because of passionate people who want to see knowledge open to all 🙌
Browse the collection today: library.oapen.org
Coming later this year from @leverpress.bsky.social! First book in our film|minutes series: leverpress.org/filmminutes
New Roanoke College poll of Virginia out this morning finds Donald Trump at his highest level of disapproval in either term — 59%.
www.roanoke.edu/documents/rc...
Just 37% approve, he’s 22 points under water. Virginia elections including for Governor and Attorney General are just over 8 months away
Want to learn more about @standupforscience.bsky.social ? I spoke with three of the lead organizers for a Q&A you can read here: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
Psst! @scquarterly.bsky.social Volume 30, Issue 4, is available to read for FREE 📢
Thanks to enrollment in @projectmuse.bsky.social Subscribe to Open (S20) program, all of the journal's content in 2025 will be published Open Access 🔓
Read for free: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54280
I’m joining the Data Rescue Project to help preserve at risk federal data. They’re also on Bluesky @datarescueproject.org
Fight back on all fronts with whatever skills you bring. No fight is too small
