#bibliodiversity — Public Fediverse posts

With Babelica, A Network of Independent Publishers Looks to Increase Bibliodiversity

Nearly a quarter of a century old, an international alliance of independent publishers has become a global community and is increasingly developing methods to create networks of exchange.
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https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/09/with-babelica-a-network-of-independent-publishers-looks-to-increase-bibliodiversity/

#Babelica #bibliodiversity #Rights #TheInternationalAllianceofindependentpublishers

On 20260917 @utrechtuniversity Utrecht University published its new Open Access policy 2026-2030: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22793066. It widens and deepens the scope compared to the previous policy, with all publication types in scope and addressing topics like knowledge equity and governance & ownership, next to openness, timing, copyright/licenses and metadata. It works in tandem with R&R polices and publishing strategies. News item: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/new-open-access-policy-determined #OpenAccess #KnowledgeEquity #bibliodiversity

Our new paper in Scientometrics with @mikaellaakso & Zehra Taşkın: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05535-4

We map 19,000+ university journals worldwide and show a major blind spot in research evaluation: most are invisible in selective indexes. UJs sustain bibliodiversity, multilingualism, SSH, and Diamond OA — yet remain structurally undervalued.

#ScholarlyCommunication #Bibliodiversity #DiamondOA #UniversityPublishing

📚 Exploring fairer futures for Open Access books!
Joe Deville on collective, sustainable Diamond OA models and library collaboration.
🔗 Abstract: https://doi.org/10.7557/5.8331

#Munin2025 #OpenScience #DiamondOA #Bibliodiversity 🌍

📚 New Research Alert: Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers

By Simon van Bellen (Senior Research Advisor, Érudit), Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander (Scientific Director, PKP), and Vincent Larivière (Scientific Director, Érudit)

📖 Full article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0327015

#ScholComm #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #Bibliodiversity #Indexing #OpenInfrastructure #AcademicMastodon #IndependentPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #FediScholar

Heute mit @rmaust beim Leopoldina Symposium zur Zukunft der Finanzierung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen um das #doa Modell des @DHd und der @ZfdG vorzustellen. Danke für die Einladung und die interessante Diskussion. #bibliodiversity ##digitalhumanities #libraries #SciCom

"Variety Is the Spice of Life: Bibliodiversity, Scholarly Publishing and the Inexact Science of Making Ends Meet" @ DeGruyter Conversations: https://blog.degruyter.com/variety-is-the-spice-of-life-bibliodiversity-scholarly-publishing-and-the-inexact-science-of-making-ends-meet/
"What does bibliodiversity mean for libraries and academia today? Last month, an international panel explored how diverse voices, open access and local publishing initiatives can transform scholarly communication and advance equity worldwide." #publishing #academia #libraries #bibliodiversity

Researcher to Reader Conference — London — 25-26 February 2025

#Bibliodiversity and #OpenAccess #Book Platforms
Recording (complete video recording on YouTube) Slides (PDF)
#ScholComm

Evaluating #Multilingual #Metadata Quality in #Crossref / Dennis Donathan II, Mike Nason, Marco Tullney, Julie Shi, Juan Pablo Alperin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11853

#ScholComm #bibliodiversity #preprint

NEW Journal Article: “Thema and World Needs: Exploring #Bibliodiversity Through Open Access Book Subjects” https://www.infodocket.com/2025/01/15/journal-article-thema-and-world-needs-exploring-bibliodiversity-through-open-access-book-subjects/ #oa #books #libraries

Thema and world needs: exploring bibliodiversity through open access book subjects | Insights

I just published this article, exploring #bibliodiversity by analysing #OpenAccess #books usage across different regions and examines the subjects using the Thema classification. Through social network analysis the relation between countries and book classifications is examined, identifying clusters of shared interests.

#ScholComm #AcademicImpact

https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.679

@leibnizopenscience ich finde die Limitierung auf eine einzige "Blanket"-Lizenz nicht hilfreich, wenn man das breite Spektrum von Publikationskontexten jenseits von Journals nicht außer acht lassen will ... #bibliodiversity

Bzw. - etwas tongue-in-cheek - wenn schon eine einzige Lizenz, wieso dann nicht gleich CC0 bzw. Public Domain? 😉

Wieso insbesondere im Kontext Buchpublikationen #OAbooks ein Fokus auf CC BY allein nicht hilfreich scheint, hatten wir in der Handreichung "Creative Commons für Bücher" besprochen, bspw hier https://ccbooks.pubpub.org/pub/interview-tobias-steiner-copim/release/2

COAR launches task force on sustainable and interoperable PIDs models https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-launches-task-force-on-sustainable-pids-models/ #Bibliodiversity. This is *not* about competing with the existing, mainstream solutions. It is about ensuring local approaches that are being developed in some regions are widely discoverable and interoperable with the mainstream initiatives.

Interesting reading on #openscholarship and #bibliodiversity #openscience https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/18758789241296760

Does the African academy need its own citation index? by David Mills & Toluwase Asubiaro

"... journals published in the global peripheries, in small fields, or in languages other than English, struggle to get indexed. In 2023, if one excludes South Africa, only around 60 of the 30,000 plus journals indexed in Web of Science were published from Sub Saharan Africa."

https://www.globalafricasciences.org/issue-07/art-07-05-en

#OpenAccess #Bibliodiversity #WebOfScience #Indexing

New article alert:

Snijder, R. & Kingsley, D., (2024) “Research #Assessment Systems and the Effects of Publication Language: Manifestations in the Directory of Open Access Books”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.4847

#ScholComm #Academia #OpenAccess #BiblioDiversity

The oligopoly of academic publishers persists in exclusive database

👉 "The emergence of digital #publishing, the reduction of expenses for printing and distribution and #opensource journal management tools may have contributed to the emergence of small #publishers, while the development of inclusive #bibliometric databases has allowed for the effective #indexing of #journals & #articles."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17893

#ScholarlyPublishing #scholcomm #research #bibliodiversity #dimensions #openalex

Fascinating :OpenAccess: look at how journal indexes and lists (often, but not always slanted toward Anglo publications in the global North) shape research assessment for anthropologists in eight countries.

#bibliodiversity @DORAssessment

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aman.13981

My (5 minute) presentation on #BiblioDiversity and #OpenAccess #books in #OAPEN and #DOAB at the Researcher2Reader Conference.

#ScholComm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMWCNRKkOaI

🔎 New article at #UKSG by Huw Grange asks "to what extent are minority languages excluded from scholarly publishing infrastructure...?" and gives a nod to PKP's #OpenJournalSystems and #multilingualism efforts.

PKP's Alec Smecher gave an annotation on this article about what's new in #OJS 3.4.0-x to keep up the work on advancing #multilingualism. Check out the article to learn more!

#ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm #Bibliodiversity #OpenAccess

https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.640

Last Friday I had the extreme pleasure to welcome online colleages Magda Wnuk and Marta Świetlik from Operas PL at FH Potsdam. They shared valuable insights into their very important work to improve open scholarly communication in social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Poland! --> Check their website and publications https://operas.pl/
#openscience #openhumanities #openaccess #bibliodiversity #libraries #mastocampus #operas @operaseu @mmaryl

OPUS-CAT MT : à la découverte d’un logiciel de traduction automatique neuronale installé en local
#TraductionAutomatique #Multilinguisme #ScienceOuverte #Bibliodiversity #OpenScience #MachineTranslation par Jean Francois Nominé INIST-CNRS
https://lalist.inist.fr/?p=61931

Join us this Friday for a SciELO webinar in celebration of #SciELO25!

"Open Book Futures: Working together to Build Community-owned Infrastructures for #OAbooks"

📅 July 14, 2023, 11:30am (BRT/UTC-3) / 3.30pm (BST)

@copim colleagues Joe Deville from @openbookcollect, @ScholTom from Opening the Future, and @rupertgatti & @flavoursofopen from Thoth will provide a brief overview of the three initiatives' recent work in the context of the Open Book Futures project, and we'd love to hear from publishing initiatives and libraries across all of #Latinamerica about how you would like us to engage with you in meaningful ways, to discuss all the fantastic work that has already been happening in SciELO, and see if SciELO members might benefit from a collaboration to make our shared goal of providing an alternative, community-led open publishing ecosystem for open access books become reality!

#openinfra #openacces #bibliodiversity

https://25.scielo.org/en/seminars/copim/

Tracking Global Access- the move to OpenAlex and inclusion of 2022 data
https://openknowledge.community/tracking-global-access-the-move-to-openalex-and-inclusion-of-2022-data/
#OpenAcces #bibliodiversity

Some personal news: I'm really excited to share that as of today, and after having served @copim as Project Manager for more than three years, I'm now joining @Thoth_metadata as COO (apparently that is a thing?) & Product Manager 👋

In the coming months and years, we'll be working to bring fully open, #CC0-licensed #metadata for #OAbooks to more publishers, including those involved with the lovely folks over at Open Book Collective (@[email protected], who will also soon be joining the #fediverse, I hear), while also expanding our range of open #metadata output formats, further developing the Thoth Archiving Network (#archiving & #preservation), and working to further improve #accessibility and #bibliodiversity aspects of Thoth via our participation in the Open Book Futures project (aka. our next phase of COPIM) ... it's definitely not going to be boring! 😄

An exciting milestone for my institutional repository team. I'm proud to be part of a uni library that recognises the strategic importance of green #OpenAccess & #bibliodiversity https://blogs.griffith.edu.au/library/2023/04/03/celebrating-30-million-downloads-of-griffith-research/

@openscij : 25671 revues scientifique, 5,8 millions articles, 136 pays, 60 langues, 60% en LL-SHS, 84% Diamond Open Access, -2% suspectées prédatrices
-8% indexées dans WoS et Scopus
Et nos BU, elles font quoi pour la #bibliodiversity ?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/02/07/beyond-web-of-science-and-scopus-there-is-already-an-open-bibliodiverse-world-of-research-we-ignore-it-at-our-peril/

Karlstrøm, H., Aksnes, D. W., & Piro, F. (2023, February 22). Benefits of open access (OA) to researchers from lower-income countries: Tracing evidence through an analysis of reference patterns.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ecgzh/ via @OSFramework
#openaccess #bibliodiversity

Thrilled to announce today's launch of the Open Book Collective! #OAbooks

Visit our site to see our members such as Open Book Publishers, the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB), OAPEN, punctum books, mediastudies.press, meson press, Mattering Press, African Minds, and Thoth.

Librarians can see Open Access initiatives, presses & open infrastructure projects, that can be supported via annual memberships that will help these groups to thrive & also contribute to a fund to assist these groups in further developing & bettering their operations. #openinfrastructure

Supporting members of the OBC contribute to a more durable ecosystem for the long-term sustainability of OA publishers & open infrastructure developers so critical to #bibliodiversity.

Open Book Collective has been developed by the COPIM project and ScholarLed, generously funded by the Research England Development Fund and Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

https://openbookcollective.org

Pleased to be interviewed for this piece in Times Higher Ed: “We need a diverse system [that supports] repositories, local publishers and fully open access journals with no fees… if we only focus on read and publish, we will knock out other types of OA.” #OpenAccess #bibliodiversity
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/australia-and-new-zealand-face-bumpy-road-open-access-research

#bibliodiversity (now spelled right)

Basically, the BPC model is favourable for the large publishers. In other words: less good for #bibliodiversity

Some random thoughts on the dominance of English as the language of science/scholarship.

While it is hard to see this changing anytime soon, up to the mid 18C people probably thought the same of Latin.

If we are serious about opening science to everyone, and promoting citizen science, then we do need to recognise that not everyone can read, let alone write, English.

AI may be the game-changer - should open science platforms have built-in language translation? #OpenScience #Bibliodiversity