Scientific journals that feel straight out of 1665, prices that could come from a MrBeast meet-and-greet, privacy as lax as Facebook, and reliability as dubious as a TikTok lifehack: it was long past time for the EU to free science—if anyone would let it.
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige
🌻 Policy milestone for Ukrainian national scientific journals!
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted the Procedure for the competitive selection of #financial support for Ukrainian scholarly #OpenAccess journals!
Unlike many European countries that already have robust support systems for national journals, this is a new step for Ukraine.
Read more here: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1032-2025-%D0%BF#Text
🌻 Have you heard about the appropriation or misuse of #AcademicJournals by occupation authorities?
This poster presents a case of Ukrainian journals, originally launched and operated in Ukraine, that were unlawfully appropriated by the occupation authorities of the Russian Federation. As a result:
- Archives repurposed, records erased/rewritten
- ISSNs manipulated, causing disinformation in indexing systems
Making the Connection: An Examination of Institutional #Repositories and Scholarly Communication #Crosslinking Practices
#IRs remain a powerful tool for sharing and preserving scholarship. #Scholcom services and resources are essential to promoting and supporting IRs. #Linking SC services within an IR offers support to users at their point of need. This study investigates the prevalence of web linking between IR and SC services.
The “predatory publisher” category raises more questions than answers. Just like “academic fraud”, it tends to validate a black & white world in which rules and norms are clear-cut and universally shared through time, disciplines and countries. There is now an extensive literature presenting lists, criteria and even automatic detection for such publishers or their … Continue reading "Dealing with the grey zone of publishing or… how I will never be an editorial board member of MDPI Publications."
I'm all for a move away from a focus on for-profit and non-inclusive models, towards a publishing landscape that fully includes institute- and community-driven #OpenAccess.
I therefore signed this petition, and I hope you would consider doing the same if you're based at a Dutch institute :)
https://openscienceretreat.eu/call-to-commitment-future-proof-oa-publishing/
Björn Brembs
Open Science Network Ukraine
François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺
infoDOCKET
herbert
pol_eco_pub
Esther Plomp
Ubiquity