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RE: https://mastodon.social/@waltcrawford/116223939720090295

I really like and appreciate how Walt Crawford steadfastly keeps analysing open access journals, year on year, reliably, manually. Thanks so much, Walt for doing this! Your work is an essential addition to @DOAJ data. #openaccess #journals #doaj

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Mar 12

petersuber Mar 12

Thanks to Sufyan bin Uzayr for enlarging and updating the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD) list of #advocacy organizations for #OpenAccess.

Like all OAD lists, this one is #crowdsourced. Here's how to help make any of the OAD lists more comprehensive and up to date.
http://bit.ly/oad-get-started

Getting started as an OAD contributor - Open Access Directory

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Mar 11

I wonder what the thinking about this is? https://www.nonlinearstudies.com/index.php/nonlinear/article/view/3832
OA license - and a USD 20 purchase price?

Martingale Hardy spaces and divergence of maximal operators associated with Walsh-Fej\'er means | Nonlinear Studies

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Feb 18

The Munin Conference Feb 18

🎓✨ Last year, Munin Conference celebrated its 20th edition! After two decades, we’re moving to a biennial schedule 🌱💡 Next Munin: spring 2027 in Tromsø 🌌 Still by the community, for the community – just sunnier ☀️ #Munin2027 #OpenScience #Tromsø https://site.uit.no/muninconf/munin-2027/

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Feb 11

Send in your manuscripts to Nordic Perspectives on Open Science!
After a successful thematic volume in 2025, our journal is returning to an open volume in 2026. NOPOS invites research article manuscripts that will undergo formal peer review, but also welcomes submissions describing case studies, practical experiences, viewpoints, and other contributions that aim to inform and develop the Open Science community.

Visit our website to read the full announcement
https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nopos/announcement/view/150

Send in your manuscripts to Nordic Perspectives on Open Science! | Nordic Perspectives on Open Science

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Dec 7

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Jeroen Bosman Dec 7

2/2 @crossref Wiley, IOP, Frontiers, @PLOS , AIP and even WoltersKluwer that had zero abstracts in Crossref in 2020 are now depositing these openly. But Elsevier, ACS, IEEE, Taylor & Francis. APA, ASCE and (most of) SpringerNature are still not doing this. Authors: ask editors about this, it will boost your paper's visibility. Libraries: demand this in negotiations. It will make scholarly communication for effective. (image from the 2025 Van Eck & Waltman paper)

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Dec 7

Jeroen Bosman Dec 7

1/2 Abstracts from scholarly papers need to be open information and thus deposited by publishers in Crossref @crossref for any other system to use. Many big publishers still do not do this (https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/smxe5_v2, page 10). But the situation is better than in 2020 (https://www.crossref.org/blog/open-abstracts-where-are-we/).

OSF

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Nov 24

COPIM Nov 24

The team are back from #Munin2025

The presentations delivered by @Thoth_metadata @PublicKnowledgeProject
@openbookcollect are now available to view and download from our Zenodo Community

👉 https://buff.ly/83LSXMu
👉 https://buff.ly/6IKKASS

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Nov 24

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Walt Crawford Nov 23

@petersuber Well after all, there were only 210,000 diamond OA humanities/social science articles in 2024, so maybe Katina just didn't notice?

Jan Erik Frantsvåg Nov 24

petersuber Nov 23

"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair

PS: This article objects to #APCs and "transformative" (#ReadAndPublish) agreements, especially in the humanities. So far, so good. But then it leaves the false impression that all or most #OpenAccess falls into those two categories, which is false and harmful. It never mentions #GreenOA. It mentions #DiamondOA once, for books, and never for articles. It's strong on problems and very weak and even misleading on solutions.

I share the objections to APCs and read-and-publish agreements. I wrote stronger versions of them, extended to all disciplines, for the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

I'm in the humanities and (with the exception of one 1999 book) have made all my books and articles OA. I've never paid an APC and never will. I boycott APC-based publishers both as an author and referee and encourage others to do so.

Scholars in the humanities need accurate info about their OA options, not one-sided criticism of OA as such.

#BOAI20 #Humanities

For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?

The open movement claims to include all disciplines. But it is profoundly shaped by the institution of science, leaving humanities researchers at risk.

Katina Magazine | Annual Reviews