Back in 2023, PREreview partnered with the journal Current Research in Neurobiology to explore integrating our Live Reviews model into their workflow, to inform editorial decision-making.

This experience, led by Dr. Chris Petkov, showed that community Live Reviews can match the quality and time-efficiency of traditional #PeerReview while opening opportunities for dialogue and learning often missing from the process.

📑 The results of the pilot, run with five manuscripts submitted to CRNEUR in that year, are now published in Research Integrity and Peer Review. Read the open access paper here: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-026-00210-5

#ScholarlyPublishing #LiveReview

Carbon Brief: Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science. “Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos is a major collaborative effort to build the world’s largest and most complete database of climate change research. The Cosmos database – which features more than 1.8m individual publications linked by 40m citation relationships – captures the vast body of human […]

More than 58,000 journals across 156 countries are using #OpenJournalSystems!

About 2.5 M articles are published per year, and there is steady growth in OJS installation upgrades for better features, usability, #multilingualism, #metadata and #interoperability.

The latest #OJSBeaconData highlights the collective impact of our global communities and helps shape the future of #ScholarlyPublishing.

Here’s what the data tells us at https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/04/15/58000-journals-2025-ojs-beacon-data/

#OpenAccess #FOSS #ScholComm

Missed our webinar on Launch to Open (L2O)?

The recording is now available. Watch it to learn more about EMS Press’s community-driven model for open access publishing, and hear about the two pioneer journals: Foundations of Computational Mathematics and Archiv der Mathematik.

Watch the recording here: https://ems.press/open-access/launch-to-open/2026-06-15-webinar

Read more about L2O here: https://ems.press/open-access/launch-to-open

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Mathematics

AUPresses Inaugurates Its First African American President

Stephanie Williams, Director of the Wayne State University Press in Detroit, Michigan, took over as the new AUpresses’ president at the 2026 AUPresses Annual Meeting, which wrapped up on June 15 in Seattle.
The post AUPresses Inaugurates Its First African American President appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/aupresses-inaugurates-its-first-african-american-president/

#AUPresses #Diversity #ScholarlyPublishing #UniversityPresses

I think a lot about this question:

What would happen if, over the next 10 years, we exclusively published in, reviewed for, and served (e.g., as editors, editorial board members, and editorial staff) at Diamond Open Access journals?

Hope to get some responses!

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #ScienceCommunication #SciCom

Our colleague Madhura S. Amdekar, PhD is speaking at an Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) webinar this Monday.

The session covers how #metadata supports discoverability and transparency in scholarly publishing. Designed for editors, researchers, publishers, librarians, and reviewers.

📅 15 June 2026, 15:00-16:00 Dubai Time
🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/dUJj2rDv

#ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchMetadata #OpenInfrastructure #ACSE

Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?

I had the unpleasant experience recently of getting peer reviews directed to me for my (three years deceased) friend and mentor for whom I’m a literary executor. When I complained to the journal I discovered it’s a new automated database which Springer are using which I can opt of. When I went to opt out I discovered this is a frequent enough experience that it’s actually listed as one of the options in the drop down:

This is a bit grim, no? It would be such an easy exercise to clean the data by looking at prima facie inconsistencies between reviewer name and the contact details. Indeed it’s a textbook example of something Claude Code or Codex could do without any technical skill being required. It wouldn’t catch it all but it would be such an easy triage to perform in order to mark some records as needed verificaton. Yet they choose not to do it and instead rely on manual opt outs which does rather capture my worst feelings about commercial publishers. This is the system itself:

Springer Nature’s mission is to make publishing research a simple and rewarding experience. That’s why we introduced Snapp, the Springer Nature Article Processing Platform, to enable research to be published as efficiently as possible.

We created Snapp to be intuitive and simple to use, and it’s designed to better meet the needs of the research community – our authors, editors, and reviewers.

Snapp is built in-house by Springer Nature, so it continuously evolves to respond to researcher needs. We’re also using user feedback to guide its development and release regular updates and new features – visit the What’s new pages to find out more.

https://www.springernature.com/gp/snapp