Thanks to Sufyan bin Uzayr for enlarging and updating the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD) list of #advocacy organizations for #OpenAccess.
Like all OAD lists, this one is #crowdsourced. Here's how to help make any of the OAD lists more comprehensive and up to date.
http://bit.ly/oad-get-started
Kudos to the editors of the ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค, published by #SpringerNature, who just resigned to launch a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics, published by @openlibhums.
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf
Here's the new journal, ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค.
https://www.philosophical-logic.org/
Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025
UPDATE: The announcement letter (first link above) was initially undated, but is now dated December 10, 2025.
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 fรผr 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 โ and discussions of them โ in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.declarations_of_independence
I just learned (late!) about the mass editorial resignations at the Journal of International Students (Nov 2023) to protest the unilateral decision by the founding editor to transfer the journal to an unnamed publisher and introduce #APCs. Six months later the editors who resigned launched a new #DiamondOA journal in the same niche.
I just added an entry about it to the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal declarations of independence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2023
@scinoptica
I moved my #OpenAccess timeline to the #OpenAccessDirectory (a wiki) in 2009, where it remains open for public contributions.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline
The idea was to crowdsource the job of keeping it up to date. Unfortunately the crowd has been slow to help out. The OAD version is still the most comprehensive up to 2009. But it's very meager after that. I'd be happy to talk with anyone hoping to build on it or recruit the crowd.
The OAD version also links to other OA timelines.
Kudos to the U of Essex (@uni_of_essex) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2024/09/18/author-rights-retention-policy
To follow progress on these policies, see the steadily growing list at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies
#Academia #Copyright #HigherEd #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience
@nsunami
The Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp) tracks these with the tag "oa.policies.journals.data". So far we've found 200 (examples and discussions), but there must be more.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.policies.journals.data
4+ years ago the #OpenAccessDirectory started a list of them. But it's still under development and needs volunteers to beef it up, for example, from the OATP.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_open-data_policies
Kudos to the U of Derby (@derbyuni) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy. The policy will take effect on October 1, 2024.
https://libguides.derby.ac.uk/openaccess/rrs
h/t @sallyrumsey
For a comprehensive and growing collection of similar policies, see the list at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies
#Academia #Copyright #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience
Kudos to the U of Essex for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://library.essex.ac.uk/open-research/author-rights-retention
h/t @sje
See the #OpenAccessDirectory's growing list of universities with rights-retention OA policies.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies
Kudos to all 38 editors of ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ณ๐ด (pub'd by #Wiley), who just resigned to launch a new #OpenAccess (#DiamondOA) journal with @openlibhums on the same topics.
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/22/editors-at-philosophy-will-launch-new-oa-journal/
Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2024
The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have resigned en masse. According to their statement (below), crucial aims of scholarly journals are "not well-served by commercial publishing." Philosophy & Public Affairs is published
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