The 2025 edition of the proceedings of the Young Researchers’ Day of the Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine (CMMC) is now available on Epi-Revel.

epi-revel.univ-cotedazur.fr/collections/show/2040

It brings together a selection of contributions from the CMMC Young Researchers’ Day held in February 2025. It includes in-depth doctoral and postdoctoral research based on the presentations given during the event.

In line with previous editions, this third edition adopted a more structured organization into thematic panels, focusing in particular on the environment, circulation, and war. Three articles, drawn from these panels, make up this issue.

#diamondOA #DiBSO #openaccess #history #mediterranee

#CancerResearchUK will stop paying #APCs for funded researchers.
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/

PS. So far, so good. There are strong reasons to move away from APCs. For a summary, see Recommendation 3 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement in 2022. (Disclosure: I was the lead author.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/#rec-3

Unfortunately the Cancer Research UK announcement is marred by several false assertions and assumptions about #OpenAccess.

* Its narrow decision is to stop funding APCs, but its headline is that it will stop funding OA publishing as such. It leaves the distinct false impression that all OA journals charge APCs.

* Deep in the text it says that OA "hasn't worked. At least not in its current form." That looks like a recognition that not all OA depends on APCs. But it isn't explicit and didn't prevent careless language elsewhere in the statement.

* It never acknowledges that no-APC OA (#DiamondOA) journals exist, let alone that they constitute the majority of OA journals.

* It does acknowledge the existence of no-APC OA through repositories, or #GreenOA. But it falsely suggests that green OA must be embargoed. Just to give one notable set of counter-examples, all the federal OA policies in the US require unembargoed green OA.

#ScholComm

📰 Inside PKP's community newsletter, "Archipelago"!

Interview with PKP's new Managing Director, Teresa Lee

Demystifying #FOSS with Alec Smecher @asmecher

Reflections - 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA with Mark Huskisson @markhusk

#OpenJournalSystems OJS 3.6 task history / improved notifications with Magnus Lu

Publication Facts Label #PFLabel with PKP Founder John Willinsky

And more to access all in one place: https://lists.publicknowledgeproject.org/archive/archipelago-issue-10-march-2026-5878

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter

I just learned about ORE, thanks to Khrys'presso.

I'm really curious about open peer review and more generally about their publishing model.

[ I also wish such a platform was built around a distributed model like ActivityPub. ]

#DiamondOA #PeerReview

#JohanRooryck (@johanrooryck) just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
https://thd.hypotheses.org/560

#APCs #OpenAccess #ScholComm

RE: https://masto.ai/@DOAJ/116252414114699210

⏰Survey closes April 7
Are you involved in running or supporting a DFG-funded #DiamondOA journal or another Diamond journal in Germany that is not (yet) indexed in DOAJ?
In collaboration with @dfg_public we want to understand challenges for 💎 journals applying to #DOAJ
https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/

Wir haben uns in der Task Force Finanzierung von SeDOA mit dem Konzept "Deutschlandfonds Diamond Open Access (DeFDOA)" beschäftigt und im neuen Blog ein paar Gedanken dazu festgehalten: https://diamond-open-access.de/sedoa-task-force-finanzierung-kommentar-zum-konzept-deutschland-fonds-fuer-diamond-open-access-defdoa/.

Wir beschäftigen uns in der Task Force weiter mit dem Thema und schauen uns auch andere Konzepte genauer an.

#OpenAccess #SeDOA #DiamondOA