Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.

I am joining this action and have also resigned.

Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf

NEWS: a really exciting collaboration has just been announced between our metadata management and dissemination system, Thoth, and @Science_Open, creating enriched, OPEN book #metadata to close the gap between rich publication records - used by book vendors within their sales channels - and commonly available data.

Find out more via @Science_Open's blog post: https://blog.scienceopen.com/2023/04/scienceopen-and-thoth-join-forces-on-book-metadata/

#MetadataMatters #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OA

The listed authors of #StochasticParrots (@emilymbender Angelina McMillan-Major & @mmitchell_ai) which was referenced in a letter calling for a six-month pause on "training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4," have written a statement.

"The harms from so-called AI are real & present and follow from the acts of people & corporations deploying automated systems. Regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability & preventing exploitative labor practices."

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

ANNOUNCEMENT: the full programme for our end-of-project virtual conference, “Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books”, is now available.

Dates:
- 20 April at 3.30pm-8.15pm (BST)
- 21 April, 3pm-7pm (BST)

Sign up here! https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org

#OAbooks

Hot off the press! The final conference programme has been published for Open Repositories 2023 at Stellenbosch. Lots of lovely looking papers in the pipeline.... 😀

https://or2023.openrepositories.org/programme-2/ #OR2023 #OpenRepo2023 #repositories #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenData #DigitalLibraries