New publication!

'Protecting Workers?' offers an exploration of how the South Asian region has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, an ensuing debt crisis, and their profound impact on workers’ lives across the region. The volume is edited by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Wilfried Swenden. It's freely available in #openaccess at: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-36

#work #SouthAsia #economics #pandemic #sociology #anthropology #developmentstudies #areastudies #politicalscience #humangeography #scholarlypublishing

⏰ Not long to go now until our #ExperimentalPublishing group’s online conference!

🗓️ 8-9 April 2026

Register now 👉 https://buff.ly/3RVC2Lc

Full programme 👉 Online Conference: Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots

#OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing

📰 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

Diverse roles of twitter in research evaluation: original tweets and retweets capture different types of engagements with scholarly articles

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/31/diverse-roles-of-twitter-in-research-evaluation-original-tweets-and-retweets-capture-different-types-of-engagements-with-scholarly-articles/

#Altmetrics #AshrafMaleki #KimHolmberg #PLOS #ResearchImpact #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #SocialMedia #twitter

Evaluating Multilingual Metadata Quality in Crossref

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/20/evaluating-multilingual-metadata-quality-in-crossref/

#Crossref #DennisDonathan #JuanPabloAlperin #JulieShi #MarcoTullney #Metadata #MikeNason #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication

[CONFERENCE] Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots

The programme is organised around themed sessions:

1️⃣ Infrastructuring
2️⃣ Open Peer Reviewing
3️⃣ Binding

Kenotes: Simon Dumas Primbault (CNRS), Amanda Wyatt Visconti (Scholars’ Lab UVA Library), & Bob Stein (Founder of Tapestry)

Get your ticket now! FYI one ticket covers both days 🎫

More info on our website 👉 https://buff.ly/zX0kSlC

#OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing

#scienceouverte #ScholarlyPublishing
[BLOG] Participation de Episciences au Global Summit on #DiamondOA (Bengalore, Inde)
📌 Raphaël Tournoy a présenté @episciences lors du workshop "Repositories & Preprints as Diamond OA"
📌 Delphine Crubellier a commenté le poster "Episciences: Bridging Open Repositories for Diamond OA Publishing Workflows and Enhanced Metadata Interoperability"

Lire le billet ▶️ https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/2026/03/participation-de-episciences-au-3rd-global-summit-diamond-open-access-a-bangalore-en-inde/

Publishing Service in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Academic Library’s Contribution to the New Knowledge Dissemination

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/15/publishing-service-in-times-of-crisis-a-case-study-of-the-academic-librarys-contribution-to-the-new-knowledge-dissemination/

#AllaMalshakova #LibraryPublishing #OlenaSkachenko #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #Ukraine #ValentynaMamedova #ValeriiKushnarov

"I prefer the publish-review-curate model over the traditional submit-get rejected-submit somewhere else-get rejected-submit somewhere else model."

Found myself writing the above when a journal editor asked me to weigh in on accept/reject for a manuscript I reviewed.

Stay tuned as additional advocacy is in the works for the publish-review-curate model! #scholarlyPublishing

The evolution of Baltic scientific journals

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/12/the-evolution-of-baltic-scientific-journals/

#ArnasGudinaviius #Estonia #GergelyFerencLendvai #Latvia #Lithuania #PterSasvri #ScholarlyJournals #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication