"This paper draws on history, sports studies, Indigenous studies, and autoethnography to explore the unnatural chronology that placed the gender binary at the centre of modern sports..."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2026.2640095#d1e297
#SportsStudies #sports #OpenAccess #Histodons #GenderStudies
#religion #theology #OpenAccess
'special concern of the journals is to support young theologians with their first publications. Articles on the history and current situation of the church and society in the East German federal states are also regularly included.'
Theology needs public debate. Today, the digital space is particularly suitable for this. That is why the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the university is now taking a new approach: Its journals "Theologie der Gegenwart" (ThG) are now available free of charge in open access.
#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.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Topological crystals and soliton lattices in a Gross-Neveu model with Hilbert-space fragmentation
Sergio Cerezo-Roquebrún, Simon Hands, Alejandro Bermudez
SciPost Phys. 20, 098 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.4.098
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
The UV sensitivity of axion monodromy inflation
Enrico Pajer, Dong-Gang Wang, Bowei Zhang
SciPost Phys. 20, 097 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.4.097
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core
Strongly interacting dark matter admixed neutron stars
Yannick Dengler, Suchita Kulkarni, Axel Maas, Kevin Radl
SciPost Phys. Core 9, 019 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.9.2.019
#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Turkey's Place in the New Architecture of Europe: An Updated Assessment" by Mehmet Ögücü
[Paris: Chatham House Discussion Papers, 1992]
http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/106075
#turkey #europe #economy #politics #religion #islam #christianity
Interesting take by Cancer Research UK:
"We need efficient scholarly communications to spread scientific ideas via a fair economic model. We currently don’t have that. The #openaccess movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…"
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/
"Ceasing to fund open access in the way we currently do will save us £5.2m of donors’ money over the next three years."
They're not wrong:
"Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has announced it will cease funding #openaccess (#OA) publishing costs, arguing that the current model is failing to deliver a fair and efficient system for disseminating research."
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/cancer-research-uk-to-stop-funding-open-access-publishing/
I wonder if the ORE announcement may have anything to do with that decision?
Are there any similar efforts going on in the UK?
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