How to flip your journal: A guide to more equitable publishing with Diamond Open Access

Diamond Open Access is a scholar-led publishing model in which content is made freely accessible to readers, under an open licence, at no cost to authors. In recent years this model has gained increased visibility and popularity as it is seen as an alternative to commercial publishing. This guide has been written for all journal editors (in the Netherlands and beyond) who find themselves uncomfortable with the hold of commercial publishers over their journals and would like to transition their journal to a Diamond Open Access publication model. It provides an overview of which steps to take while considering the flip to Diamond Open Access, which routes are possible (subscribe to open, university presses, publishing platforms and do-it-yourself publishing)  and which are the costs and possibility of funding the journal under the new model.  

Transformative Agreements Are a Blind Alley

Combining Big Deals with open access publishing quotas erects new barriers across the pathway to open access. Instead, researchers, academic libraries, research institutions, and their funders should choose publishing models that are in line with their overarching goals and missions.

Doing Open Science in Resource-Limited Research Settings: Insights and Tools From Two Projects in Serbia

Slides from a 20-minute talk given at the 6th EIFL Open Science Trainers Meet-up on September 18, 2024. The meet-up focused on reproducible research and open data as training topics. The talk presented insights and useful resources from two projects: (1) the REPOPSI project, about the creation and improvement of a repository for Open Access psychological instruments in Serbian, and (2) the ABRIR project, with a focus on a hackathon on Open Science and Big Team Science with participants from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ticket of the month - May 2023 - DOI error reports and unregistered DOIs

Hello again, For this month’s ticket of the month post, I’m going to touch on DOI error reports. I was reminded with a few support tickets this month that these reports initiated at doi.org do cause confusion. I’m here to clear that up. What is this DOI error report? The DOI error report passes along complaints from users about DOIs our members may have published or distributed but not yet registered with Crossref. When a user clicks on a DOI that has not been registered they are sent to a f...

What Happens When Someone Crochets Stuffed Animals Using Instructions from ChatGPT

Alex Woolner knows how to put a degree in English to good use.

How Q&A systems based on large language models (eg GPT4) will change things if they become the dominant search paradigm - 9 implications for libraries

A blog about academic librarianship. Covers discovery, open access and other hot trends by a librarian in Singapore.

Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books

A Guided Tour Through All of Vermeer’s Famous Paintings, Narrated by Stephen Fry

It doesn't take particularly long to be impressed by the paintings of Johannes Vermeer even today, three and a half centuries after he painted him.