Will Diamond Open Access save the publishing system? Or will we find ourselves facing a second DEAL awakening?
ELENA DI ROSA (@ElenOA) asks what it needs to transform the publishing system – this time, seriously.
Will Diamond Open Access save the publishing system? Or will we find ourselves facing a second DEAL awakening?
ELENA DI ROSA (@ElenOA) asks what it needs to transform the publishing system – this time, seriously.
Some argue that Verfassungsblog is not sufficiently scholarly, others claim that charging neither authors nor readers legally prevents academic libraries from paying for Verfassungsblog.
In our editorial, EVIN DALKILIC (@evinale) explains why neither is correct.
https://verfassungsblog.de/this-academic-publication-comes-to-you-free-of-charge/
Evin Dalkilic und Elena Di Rosa haben bei den OpenAccess Tagen #oat25 unsere Arbeit zum fairen und inklusiven Zugang zu Wissen vorgestellt – ob und wie kann #DiamondOA aus öffentlichen Mitteln finanziert werden?
ℹ️ Alles zu unserer #OpenAccess-Arbeit: https://verfassungsblog.de/open-access-en/
⬇️ Infos zu den Vorträgen im🧵
This year Verfassungsblog was removed from the Directory of Open Access Journals (@DOAJ).
Matt Hodgkinson explains in his blogpost [https://blog.doaj.org/2025/07/09/what-is-a-scholarly-journal-a-case-study-of-applying-the-doaj-criteria/] why our Appeal to this decision was rejected.
In our response "Who is In, Who is Out?"[https://verfassungsblog.de/who-is-in-who-is-out/] ELENA DI ROSA (@ElenOA) argues that German law blogs should be a part of DOAJ.
We invite our members and the oa community to join the debate! 🗣️
Statement von #bmittermaier zu Transformationsverträgen: Die #DFG_public muss sich überlegen, warum sie die Policy bezüglich Open Choice für Transformationsverträge geändert hat, wenn Transformation hin zu OA nicht stattfinden.