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  1. 1.) The University of Nottingham has divested from big deal packages with five major publishers researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    2.) The University of Nottingham also has an institutional rights retention policy nottingham.ac.uk/Governance/Do (PDF)

    I shall watch with great interest...

    HT @mpe

    #RightsRetention #GreenOA

  2. 1.) The University of Nottingham has divested from big deal packages with five major publishers researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    2.) The University of Nottingham also has an institutional rights retention policy nottingham.ac.uk/Governance/Do (PDF)

    I shall watch with great interest...

    HT @mpe

    #RightsRetention #GreenOA

  3. 1.) The University of Nottingham has divested from big deal packages with five major publishers researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    2.) The University of Nottingham also has an institutional rights retention policy nottingham.ac.uk/Governance/Do (PDF)

    I shall watch with great interest...

    HT @mpe

    #RightsRetention #GreenOA

  4. 1.) The University of Nottingham has divested from big deal packages with five major publishers researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    2.) The University of Nottingham also has an institutional rights retention policy nottingham.ac.uk/Governance/Do (PDF)

    I shall watch with great interest...

    HT @mpe

    #RightsRetention #GreenOA

  5. 1.) The University of Nottingham has divested from big deal packages with five major publishers researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    2.) The University of Nottingham also has an institutional rights retention policy nottingham.ac.uk/Governance/Do (PDF)

    I shall watch with great interest...

    HT @mpe

    #RightsRetention #GreenOA

  6. April issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! #ScholComm
    🔸 #OAForward initiative
    🔸 CAUL's 100,000th OA article
    🔸 National vision for archives in England
    🔸 British Academy's report on #greenOA for longform works
    🔸 List of #diamondOA initiatives and more
    mailchi.mp/a26423ef221e/britis

  7. April issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! #ScholComm
    🔸 #OAForward initiative
    🔸 CAUL's 100,000th OA article
    🔸 National vision for archives in England
    🔸 British Academy's report on #greenOA for longform works
    🔸 List of #diamondOA initiatives and more
    mailchi.mp/a26423ef221e/britis

  8. April issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! #ScholComm
    🔸 #OAForward initiative
    🔸 CAUL's 100,000th OA article
    🔸 National vision for archives in England
    🔸 British Academy's report on #greenOA for longform works
    🔸 List of #diamondOA initiatives and more
    mailchi.mp/a26423ef221e/britis

  9. April issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! #ScholComm
    🔸 #OAForward initiative
    🔸 CAUL's 100,000th OA article
    🔸 National vision for archives in England
    🔸 British Academy's report on #greenOA for longform works
    🔸 List of #diamondOA initiatives and more
    mailchi.mp/a26423ef221e/britis

  10. April issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! #ScholComm
    🔸 #OAForward initiative
    🔸 CAUL's 100,000th OA article
    🔸 National vision for archives in England
    🔸 British Academy's report on #greenOA for longform works
    🔸 List of #diamondOA initiatives and more
    mailchi.mp/a26423ef221e/britis

  11. The world’s leading cancer charity to stop funding open access publishing because of hybrid journals

    As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for free – is great in principle, but in practice has failed in important ways. That’s because traditional academic publishers have subverted the open access model to such an extent that the costs for research institutions of publishing in […]

    #cancer #cancerResearchUk #diamondOa #DORA #embargo #goldOa #greenOa #hybridJournals #openAccess #paywall #peterSuber #publishers #rcuk #research #researchCouncilsUk walledculture.org/the-worlds-l
  12. #CancerResearchUK will stop paying #APCs for funded researchers.
    news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026

    PS. So far, so good. There are strong reasons to move away from APCs. For a summary, see Recommendation 3 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement in 2022. (Disclosure: I was the lead author.)
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    Unfortunately the Cancer Research UK announcement is marred by several false assertions and assumptions about #OpenAccess.

    * Its narrow decision is to stop funding APCs, but its headline is that it will stop funding OA publishing as such. It leaves the distinct false impression that all OA journals charge APCs.

    * Deep in the text it says that OA "hasn't worked. At least not in its current form." That looks like a recognition that not all OA depends on APCs. But it isn't explicit and didn't prevent careless language elsewhere in the statement.

    * It never acknowledges that no-APC OA (#DiamondOA) journals exist, let alone that they constitute the majority of OA journals.

    * It does acknowledge the existence of no-APC OA through repositories, or #GreenOA. But it falsely suggests that green OA must be embargoed. Just to give one notable set of counter-examples, all the federal OA policies in the US require unembargoed green OA.

    #ScholComm

  13. [Science ouverte]
    Vous prévoyez de déposer dans HAL ? Il y a du nouveau depuis le 2 fév. : le choix obligatoire d'une licence pour votre fichier 📌
    💡 Le CCSD propose des ressources pour y voir clair : ccsd.cnrs.fr/2026/02/pas-de-de
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    #openscience #HAL #GreenOA #OpenAccess #licences #scienceouverte

  14. [Science ouverte]
    Vous prévoyez de déposer dans HAL ? Il y a du nouveau depuis le 2 fév. : le choix obligatoire d'une licence pour votre fichier 📌
    💡 Le CCSD propose des ressources pour y voir clair : ccsd.cnrs.fr/2026/02/pas-de-de
    👥 Besoin d'aide ? Contactez notre équipe Services aux Chercheurs 🆘 bibliotheque-diderot.fr/acces- qui vous accompagnera selon vos besoins !
    #openscience #HAL #GreenOA #OpenAccess #licences #scienceouverte

  15. [Science ouverte]
    Vous prévoyez de déposer dans HAL ? Il y a du nouveau depuis le 2 fév. : le choix obligatoire d'une licence pour votre fichier 📌
    💡 Le CCSD propose des ressources pour y voir clair : ccsd.cnrs.fr/2026/02/pas-de-de
    👥 Besoin d'aide ? Contactez notre équipe Services aux Chercheurs 🆘 bibliotheque-diderot.fr/acces- qui vous accompagnera selon vos besoins !
    #openscience #HAL #GreenOA #OpenAccess #licences #scienceouverte

  16. [Science ouverte]
    Vous prévoyez de déposer dans HAL ? Il y a du nouveau depuis le 2 fév. : le choix obligatoire d'une licence pour votre fichier 📌
    💡 Le CCSD propose des ressources pour y voir clair : ccsd.cnrs.fr/2026/02/pas-de-de
    👥 Besoin d'aide ? Contactez notre équipe Services aux Chercheurs 🆘 bibliotheque-diderot.fr/acces- qui vous accompagnera selon vos besoins !
    #openscience #HAL #GreenOA #OpenAccess #licences #scienceouverte

  17. [Science ouverte]
    Vous prévoyez de déposer dans HAL ? Il y a du nouveau depuis le 2 fév. : le choix obligatoire d'une licence pour votre fichier 📌
    💡 Le CCSD propose des ressources pour y voir clair : ccsd.cnrs.fr/2026/02/pas-de-de
    👥 Besoin d'aide ? Contactez notre équipe Services aux Chercheurs 🆘 bibliotheque-diderot.fr/acces- qui vous accompagnera selon vos besoins !
    #openscience #HAL #GreenOA #OpenAccess #licences #scienceouverte

  18. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.... (#paywalled) The article never mentions no-fee OA journals ( #DiamondOA ) or no-fee OA repositories ( #GreenOA ). #ScholComm

  19. Update. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
    dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0000000
    (#paywalled)

    General thesis: Paying APCs is a hardship (true) and the prices are going up (true). Therefore, to help medical students publish OA, medical schools should fund their APCs.

    The article never mentions no-fee OA journals (#DiamondOA) or no-fee OA repositories (#GreenOA).

    #ScholComm

  20. 🆔 Last week, the final Halathon of 2025 took place, with the second session held at the INPHYNI laboratory of Université Côte d’Azur. This second session, following the Halathon in November, once again made it possible to work on the quality of researcher profiles in order to improve the visibility of scientific outputs. The agenda therefore included creating accounts and idHALs, merging accounts (subsequently carried out by the CCSD - Centre for Direct Scientific Communication), as well as work on other identifiers, notably ORCid, arXiv, and IdRef.

    The Halathons will resume in January! 📅

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    🆔 La semaine dernière s'est tenu le dernier Halathon de 2025, avec la deuxième session organisée au laboratoire INPHYNI d'Université Côte d'Azur. Cette seconde intervention après le halathon de novembre a permis à nouveau de travailler sur la qualité des profils chercheurs afin d'améliorer la visibilité des productions scientifiques. Au menu donc : création de compte et d'idHAL, fusions de comptes (réalisées ensuite par le CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), mais aussi travaux sur d'autres identifiants, notamment ORCID, arXiv et IdRef !

    Les halathons reprendront en janvier ! 📅

    #openscience #greenOA #digitalid #orcid #arxiv #HAL

  21. 1/ I'm sympathetic to #NIH-funded authors who want to publish in certain #APC-based #OpenAccess journals and can't find the money to pay the APCs. But it's false to say that they must publish in those journals, in any other APC-based OA journals, or even in OA journals. Shame on _Inside Higher Ed_ for leaving this false impression..
    insidehighered.com/news/facult

    PS: I repeat: Compliance with the NIH OA policy is free of charge. Moreover, compliance is all about depositing in a certain repository, not publishing in a certain journal or kind of journal. The NIH has a #GreenOA policy, not a #GoldOA policy. The same is true for all the other federal agencies with OA policies, not just the NIH. When a journal charges NIH-funded authors an APC to publish, the fee is to publish in that particular journal, not to comply with the NIH policy. Don't be fooled by the widespread misunderstanding that compliance with these policies requires paying any kind of fee. Don't be fooled by journals and publishers that cynically spread this myth themselves or leave it uncorrected. You can help by correcting this falsehood wherever you see it. You can also help by working with hiring, promotion, tenure, and funding committees to care more about the quality of research than the journals in which it is published.

    🧵

    #APCs #NelsonMemo #NIH #OpenAccess #OAintheUSA #PublicAccess #Repositories

  22. "For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?"
    katinamagazine.org/content/art

    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.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    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