Ulrich Herb

Who owns scholarly publishing? We warmly invite you to the twelth event in the lecture series Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access, taking place on March 25, 2026, at 5:00 PM (CET)We look forward to the lecture: 🎤 “Who own...

Who owns scholarly publishing?

📅 25 March 2026, 17:00 CET
🎤 Vincent Larivière

A talk in the Open Divide lecture series on corporate control in scholarly publishing.

👉 opendivide.hypotheses.org/866

#OpenAccess #OpenScience

In unserem Podcast sprechen wir mit @scinoptica.bsky.social von der @uni-saarland.de über ein Phänomen, das in vielen Debatten rund um #OpenScience mitschwingt: #OpenWashing. Was ist das eigentlich und woran erkenne ich es? Was sind die Folgen für Wissenschaft und Transparenz? zbw.to/CZFmZ

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🎤 Kevin Elliott in the Open Divide Lecture Series!

“The Promise and Perils of Transparency and Open Science”
📅 Feb 25, 2026 | 5:00 PM CET | online

👉 Register: unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...

👉 Programme: opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...

#OpenScience #Transparency #OpenDivide

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🚀Join the Open Divide Lecture Series on Jan 28, 2026, at 5:00 PM (CET) for a lecture by Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri @c-bz.bsky.social & Guillaume Silhol: "Legitimizations and subversions of the Open: for an analysis of openwashing in scientific publishing"

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ROR² – Open and Responsible Research × Research on Research analyzes changes in research practices & scholarly publishing, with a focus on openness, research integrity, platforms, research assessment.
www.informationswissenschaft.org/forschungsei...
by @c-bz.bsky.social & @freddie2310.bsky.social

📢 8th lecture in the Open Divide series!
🗓 Dec 17, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM CET
🎙 Zakayo Kjellström: “Beyond Institutional Boundaries: Shadow Libraries as Commons and the Future of Knowledge Preservation”

🔗https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r08cc897f355e4874f6cc5ce7298043ce

📊 Kurze Umfrage (3 Minuten)
Ich sammle derzeit Eindrücke dazu, wie Social Media beruflich genutzt wird: Welche Plattformen sind wichtig? Wie setzt ihr sie ein? Wo liegen Chancen oder Hürden?
👉 www.menti.com/alqpxa8sz52a
Ich freue mich über jede Teilnahme – und über Reposts. Danke euch! 🙌

My book Scholarly Publishing in Transition is now available #OpenAccess dx.doi.org/10.22028/D29...
More info: pulse49.com/scholarly-pu...

Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards

Barnstorming piece by @theblochian.bsky.social in @resprofnews.bsky.social today. @lsepress.bsky.social is v proud to be involved in @ojcollective.bsky.social & part of the change that is coming...

Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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Delighted to announce the seventh lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series! 🎙️ Samuel Moore on 📷 Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons 📷
November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET)
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The Global South’s Role in Shaping the Open Science Paradigm In the sixth lecture of the Open Divide Series, Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost, and Behrooz Rasuli will present “The Global South’s Role in Shaping the Open Science Paradigm — an analysis of the Globa...

Delighted to announce the sixth lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series!
🎙️ Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost & Behrooz Rasuli present:
🌍 The Global South’s Role in Shaping the #OpenScience Paradigm
📅 Oct 22, 2025 | 5 PM CEST
🔗 opendivide.hypotheses.org/563

Diamond Open Access - Too good to be true? Is Diamond Open Access (DOA) the savior of stressed academic library budgets and OA advocates who are clueless about how to deal with the lack of transformation of subscription-based journals and never-ending prolongations of transformative agreements[1]? One might get that impression from the enthusiasm in current debates on reshaping the academic publishing system, a billion-dollar market that absorbs taxpayer money and serves as a ‘gatekeeper of progress’, with journals determining which research gets published, read, and cited. An ever-increasing volume of research is published openly: Anyone with an internet connection can read and work with such an article. For journal articles with OA, generally, two options have existed: Gold OA for journals that are entirely published without subscriptions and Hybrid OA for journals that continue to sell subscriptions but allow for OA to specific articles. So-called “transformative agreements” make every paper from participating institutions in such outlets OA, but the universities pay for it — instead of paying for subscriptions[2]. These contracts come with a plethora of problems[3] and Gold OA struggles with its distorted incentive for publishers to accept more papers to redeem higher APC revenue[4]. DOA is meant to tackle both: Following the common definition, it implies that there exists neither subscription nor publishing fees. Does that sound too good to be true? [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224 [2] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp8882 [3] http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224 [4] https://doi.org/10.1257/000282805774670112

💎 Diamond Open Access promises publishing without fees or paywalls. But: vague definition, hidden costs, unpaid labor & legal risks. Without prestige, DOA journals risk being ignored. Too good to be true?
👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

Who Owns, Produces and Certifies Open Knowledge? - pulse49.com Who Owns, Produces & Certifies Open Knowledge? - my contribution as a Keynote panelist at the OASPA Conference (Sep 22, 2025)

Who owns, produces & certifies open knowledge? I shared my reflections as keynote panelist at the OASPA Conference.
Read here 👉 pulse49.com/2025/09/22/w...
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OASPA25 #OASPA2025

📢 Online-Zertifikatskurs „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren & #OpenScience“ (10 CP, Uni-Zertifikat) 📢 Themen: #OpenAccess, Qualitätssicherung, #OpenScience, Forschungsbewertung, Forschungsdaten, #KI und vieles mehr.
www.uni-saarland.de/studieren/we...

Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Wandel - pulse49.com „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Wandel“ – ein praxisnahes Fachbuch zu Open Access, Impact Peer Review und Forschungsbewertung.

🚀 Neu erschienen: Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Wandel
Kompakter Leitfaden zu #OpenAccess, Peer #Review, Qualität, #Metrics, Forschungsbewertung, Standards – für alle, die ihre Publikationsstrategie gestalten wollen.

👉 pulse49.com/wissenschaft...

Scholarly Publishing in Transition - pulse49.com "Scholarly Publishing in Transition" – a practice-oriented textbook on Open Access, Impact, Peer Review, and Research Evaluation

🚀 My new book is out: Scholarly Publishing in Transition (2025).

It explores #OpenAccess models, peer #review, research #metrics, licensing, and the risks of predatory publishing — with practical tips for researchers and institutions.

More here 👉 pulse49.com/scholarly-pu...

Honored to be invited as a keynote panelist at the #OASPA 2025 Conference in Leuven, Belgium (22–24 Sept). Looking forward to discussing the future of open access with global colleagues!
More info: www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa...
#OA #OpenAccess

Erfolgreich Publizieren in der Wissenschaft: Strategien, Trends und Tools - pulse49.com Erfolgreich Publizieren in der Wissenschaft: Strategien, Trends und Tools, Workshop an der Fachhochschule Münster

📚 Erfolgreich publizieren in der Wissenschaft?
Strategie schlägt Zufall. 🧠
Einblicke aus meinem Workshop an der FH Münster
pulse49.com/2025/06/27/erfolgreich-publizieren-in-der-wissenschaft-strategien-trends-und-tools

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

The Sustainability and Stability of Open and Closed Access Publishing We are delighted to welcome Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe as the third speaker in our Open Divide series. On June 25, 2025, 5 p.m. CEST, she will critically examine the long-term sustainability of both open...

📣 Join us for the 3rd talk in the Open Divide Lecture Series
🎤 “The Sustainability and Stability of Open and Closed Access Publishing”
with @lisalibrarian.bsky.social

🗓️ June 25, 2025 | 🕔 5:00 PM CEST
opendivide.hypotheses.org/435
#OpenAccess #ScholComm #OpenDivide #OA

Surely simple to manage for libraries and streamlined for authors, but again a move away from Gold or Diamond #OpenAccess #OA…

Open Science and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights We’re pleased to continue the 2025/2026 Open Divide Lecture Series with its second talk on May 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM CEST. The second lecture in the Open Divide Series will feature Thomas Parisot and Y...

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

Library Spending in Transition: Open Access Surges, Closed Access Remains Steady - pulse49.com German Library Statistics reveals a clear trend: spending on Closed Access has remained stable, Open Access expenditures have surged dramatically.

💶 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

Home - The University of Lorraine has been resolutely committed to Open Science since 2016 and the opening of its HAL-UL institutional archive

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/

Das Bild zeigt ein Fernglas, das als Metapher für die Notwendigkeit einer genauen und kritischen Betrachtung der aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Open-Access-Transformation dient. Es ist ein metallenes Fernglas, das Anzeichen von Abnutzung aufweist. Es steht auf einem schwarzen Sockel, auf dem in geschwungenen Buchstaben "Hi-sty Viewing Machines 10X" und darunter "hispyviewing.com" steht. Durch die zwei kleinen, blauen Linsen des Fernglas blickt man auf eine grüne Wiese, die sich bis zum Horizont erstreckt. Der Himmel ist blau und leicht bewölkt. Das Bild vermittelt einen Eindruck von Weite und die Möglichkeit, die Dinge aus einer neuen Perspektive zu betrachten.

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

Snapshot 2024: Open Access by Academic Discipline - pulse49.com Snapshot 2024: Open Access by Academic Discipline. Gold dominates in Life & Health Sciences, Social Sciences lead in Hybrid, Bronze & Diamond OA.

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

Open Access Trends in Scholarly Publishing 2015–2024 - pulse49.com Open Access rose to 59% of article output by 2023 before dropping to 47% in 2024. Gold OA dominates; Diamond remains stable but marginal.

🔍 #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...

Academic Databases and the Art of the Overcharge Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society are comfortable pursuing a strategy of pricing discrimination. But libraries don’t have to go along with it. This data can help.

📚 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...

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

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

NIH blocks researchers in China, Russia and other countries from multiple databases The Trump administration has blocked access to multiple data repositories maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for researchers in several countries, including a cancer statistics d | ...

🔒 #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...