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/
📢 OSMI Working Group 3 is looking for case studies from scholarly content providers on monitoring open science practices.
If your organization tracks open access, open data, software sharing, or other open science indicators, we'd love to hear from you.
The OSMI Working Group ‘Open science monitoring with scholarly content providers’ is seeking submissions of case studies from scholarly content providers (publishers, institutional, generalist, or specialist repositories, infrastructure providers, preprint servers, or other organizations that produce, aggregate or host scholarly content) showcasing the ways in which diverse scholarly content providers are implementing – or considering ...
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"We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-access-journal-fees-nature-wiley-elsevier-nih/
(#paywalled)
There's a lot going on in this confused and confusing article.
* The author and her co-authors were foolish to pay $12,850 for a Nature Medicine APC. They could have published the same article for a lower fee, or no fee, at many other respected journals. They didn't pay for quality. They paid for journal branding or prestige.
* The author says her team paid for the APC "to comply" with the NIH policy. Untrue. Complying with the NIH policy is free of charge. They paid the APC to publish in Nature Medicine.
* The author says that APCs "pose barriers to making NIH-funded research available to the public." Untrue. NIH makes funded research available to the public through #PubMedCentral (#GreenOA) no matter where the author chooses to publish and no matter whether the author chooses to pay an APC.
Paul Litvak wrote a thoughtful piece on the limitations of the scientific journal article and the advantages of a proposed new genre or structure.
https://www.paullitvak.com/p/the-future-of-academic-journals
The new structure he describes is similar to one I proposed in 2012: one that would disaggregate claims and connect each one to the current evidence. See my 2012 essay, "The idea of an open-access evidence rack."
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32988193
One difference is that his would use #AI. Mine would use #crowdsourcing. But his could also use crowdsourcing and mine could also use AI.
Another is that his seems meant to stand alone. Mine is meant to be a dynamic collection of "perpetually updated, public footnotes" that might stand alone or might be cited, as footnotes, by articles, books, and any other new genres that might come along.
🤝Join PKP & Crossref on June 17 for a step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading from OJS 3.x to OJS 3.5, the upcoming Long Term Support release.
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Update. @TranslateScience launched a community of interest on multilingual #OpenScience.
https://prereview.org/clubs/translate-science
Today I’m at the BRIC conference in #Edmonton https://bric-conference.ca/.
I heard a question about Twitter and altmetrics. What could we do to capture altmetrics in the #fediverse? I didn’t have an answer.
Is there an answer? @evan
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