1/ Today is the 17th birthday of the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p

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#OpenAccess #ScholComm

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#OATP is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project running on free software to capture news and comment on open access to research. Its mission is (1) to create real-time alerts for OA-related news and comment, and (2) to organize knowledge of the field, by tag or subtopic, for easy searching and sharing.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/OATP_tags

#TT TagTeam is an open-source tagging platform and feed aggregator developed for the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society under the direction of Peter Suber. https://tagteam.harvard.edu/

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software (#TagTeam) on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

Contact me <[email protected]> if you have any questions or any level of interest.

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm

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Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdf

This kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.

For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=oa.plan_u

#Medicine #ScholComm

I launched the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) in 2009 and #TagTeam in 2011, and have run them ever since. In that time they've been widely used but seldom reviewed. This morning I was taken by surprise when I saw the lengthy review by Lilly Hoi Sze Ho.
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/living-archive-open-access-movement-next-chapter

I was surprised mostly because I had no idea it was coming. (It's a review, and I understand why she didn't contact me first.) But it's also surprisingly positive, surprisingly detailed, and surprisingly accurate. Recommended.

It's true (as she reports) that I'm trying to pass both projects on to new hands.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

I can add the update that I might soon succeed. I'm talking now with several nonprofits whose names you'd recognize as major players in the world of #OpenAccess.

Last week the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) turned 16 years old.

Here's the launch announcement from April 16, 2009…
https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/04/open-access-tracking-project-oatp.html

… and a longer account from my newsletter two weeks later.
https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/73120378-8868-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b

Remember that I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the OATP. See the details in this Google doc.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

Today the editorial board of _Mathematical Logic Quarterly_ (pub'd by #Wiley) resigned and launched a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics.
https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/ruecktritt-des-mlq-editorial-teams

See the open letter announcing their resignations and plans for the new journal.
https://zml.international/files/zml-open-letter.pdf

The new journal has a German title but will publish in English, _Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik_.
https://zml.international/

I track these journal "declarations of independence" in the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD), and just added an entry for this one, at the bottom in chronological order.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025

I also track them — and discussions of them — in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.declarations_of_independence

#Logic #Mathematics #OpenAccess #ScholComm