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Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory. We now have 170. oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Univ... Spread the word. The world could use many more. #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #OAD #ScholComm

University rights-retention OA...

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory. We now have 170. oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Univ... Spread the word. The world could use many more. #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #OAD #ScholComm

University rights-retention OA...

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Spread the word. The world could use many more.

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Spread the word. The world could use many more.

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Sufyan bin Uzayr and I just created a list of major initiatives for #Diamond #OpenAccess in the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD).
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Major_initiatives_for_diamond_OA

#DiamondOA #ScholComm

Sufyan bin Uzayr and I just created a list of major initiatives for #Diamond #OpenAccess in the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD).
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Major_initiatives_for_diamond_OA

#DiamondOA #ScholComm

Thanks to Sufyan bin Uzayr for enlarging and updating the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD) list of Declarations in support of #OpenAccess.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Declarations_in_support_of_OA

All OAD lists are #crowdsourced. If you'd like to help make any of them more comprehensive and up to date, here's how to get started.
http://bit.ly/oad-get-started

Thanks to Sufyan bin Uzayr for enlarging and updating the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD) list of Declarations in support of #OpenAccess.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Declarations_in_support_of_OA

All OAD lists are #crowdsourced. If you'd like to help make any of them more comprehensive and up to date, here's how to get started.
http://bit.ly/oad-get-started

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

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

Kudos to the editors of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤, published by #SpringerNature, who just resigned to launch a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics, published by @openlibhums.
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf

Here's the new journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤.
https://www.philosophical-logic.org/

Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025

UPDATE: The announcement letter (first link above) was initially undated, but is now dated December 10, 2025.

#Editors #OpenAccess #Philosophy #Resignations

Kudos to the editors of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤, published by #SpringerNature, who just resigned to launch a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics, published by @openlibhums.
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf

Here's the new journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤.
https://www.philosophical-logic.org/

Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025

UPDATE: The announcement letter (first link above) was initially undated, but is now dated December 10, 2025.

#Editors #OpenAccess #Philosophy #Resignations

Today the editorial board of _Mathematical Logic Quarterly_ (pub'd by #Wiley) resigned and launched a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics.
https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/ruecktritt-des-mlq-editorial-teams

See the open letter announcing their resignations and plans for the new journal.
https://zml.international/files/zml-open-letter.pdf

The new journal has a German title but will publish in English, _Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik_.
https://zml.international/

I track these journal "declarations of independence" in the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD), and just added an entry for this one, at the bottom in chronological order.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025

I also track them — and discussions of them — in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.declarations_of_independence

#Logic #Mathematics #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Today the editorial board of _Mathematical Logic Quarterly_ (pub'd by #Wiley) resigned and launched a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics.
https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/ruecktritt-des-mlq-editorial-teams

See the open letter announcing their resignations and plans for the new journal.
https://zml.international/files/zml-open-letter.pdf

The new journal has a German title but will publish in English, _Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik_.
https://zml.international/

I track these journal "declarations of independence" in the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD), and just added an entry for this one, at the bottom in chronological order.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025

I also track them — and discussions of them — in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.declarations_of_independence

#Logic #Mathematics #OpenAccess #ScholComm

I just learned (late!) about the mass editorial resignations at the Journal of International Students (Nov 2023) to protest the unilateral decision by the founding editor to transfer the journal to an unnamed publisher and introduce #APCs. Six months later the editors who resigned launched a new #DiamondOA journal in the same niche.

I just added an entry about it to the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal declarations of independence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2023

I just learned (late!) about the mass editorial resignations at the Journal of International Students (Nov 2023) to protest the unilateral decision by the founding editor to transfer the journal to an unnamed publisher and introduce #APCs. Six months later the editors who resigned launched a new #DiamondOA journal in the same niche.

I just added an entry about it to the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal declarations of independence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2023

@scinoptica
I moved my #OpenAccess timeline to the #OpenAccessDirectory (a wiki) in 2009, where it remains open for public contributions.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline

The idea was to crowdsource the job of keeping it up to date. Unfortunately the crowd has been slow to help out. The OAD version is still the most comprehensive up to 2009. But it's very meager after that. I'd be happy to talk with anyone hoping to build on it or recruit the crowd.

The OAD version also links to other OA timelines.

@scinoptica
I moved my #OpenAccess timeline to the #OpenAccessDirectory (a wiki) in 2009, where it remains open for public contributions.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline

The idea was to crowdsource the job of keeping it up to date. Unfortunately the crowd has been slow to help out. The OAD version is still the most comprehensive up to 2009. But it's very meager after that. I'd be happy to talk with anyone hoping to build on it or recruit the crowd.

The OAD version also links to other OA timelines.

Kudos to the U of Essex (@uni_of_essex) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2024/09/18/author-rights-retention-policy

To follow progress on these policies, see the steadily growing list at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

#Academia #Copyright #HigherEd #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience

Kudos to the U of Essex (@uni_of_essex) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2024/09/18/author-rights-retention-policy

To follow progress on these policies, see the steadily growing list at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

#Academia #Copyright #HigherEd #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience

@nsunami
The Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp) tracks these with the tag "oa.policies.journals.data". So far we've found 200 (examples and discussions), but there must be more.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.policies.journals.data

4+ years ago the #OpenAccessDirectory started a list of them. But it's still under development and needs volunteers to beef it up, for example, from the OATP.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_open-data_policies

@nsunami
The Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp) tracks these with the tag "oa.policies.journals.data". So far we've found 200 (examples and discussions), but there must be more.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.policies.journals.data

4+ years ago the #OpenAccessDirectory started a list of them. But it's still under development and needs volunteers to beef it up, for example, from the OATP.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_open-data_policies

Kudos to the U of Derby (@derbyuni) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy. The policy will take effect on October 1, 2024.
https://libguides.derby.ac.uk/openaccess/rrs

h/t @sallyrumsey

For a comprehensive and growing collection of similar policies, see the list at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

#Academia #Copyright #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience

Kudos to the U of Derby (@derbyuni) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy. The policy will take effect on October 1, 2024.
https://libguides.derby.ac.uk/openaccess/rrs

h/t @sallyrumsey

For a comprehensive and growing collection of similar policies, see the list at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

#Academia #Copyright #Universities
@academicchatter
@openscience

Kudos to the U of Essex for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://library.essex.ac.uk/open-research/author-rights-retention

h/t @sje

See the #OpenAccessDirectory's growing list of universities with rights-retention OA policies.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Kudos to the U of Essex for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://library.essex.ac.uk/open-research/author-rights-retention

h/t @sje

See the #OpenAccessDirectory's growing list of universities with rights-retention OA policies.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Kudos to all 38 editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 (pub'd by #Wiley), who just resigned to launch a new #OpenAccess (#DiamondOA) journal with @openlibhums on the same topics.
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/22/editors-at-philosophy-will-launch-new-oa-journal/

Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2024

#Editors #Philosophy
@academicchatter
@openscience

Kudos to all 38 editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 (pub'd by #Wiley), who just resigned to launch a new #OpenAccess (#DiamondOA) journal with @openlibhums on the same topics.
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/22/editors-at-philosophy-will-launch-new-oa-journal/

Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2024

#Editors #Philosophy
@academicchatter
@openscience

"On Feb. 6, Colorado State University Faculty Council passed a resolution to endorse the CSU Libraries’ licensing priorities."
https://source.colostate.edu/faculty-council-endorses-csu-libraries-licensing-priorities/

PS: I just added the CSU resolution to the crowd-sourced #OpenAccessDirectory list of institutional principles for negotiating with publishers.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Institutional_principles_for_negotiating_with_publishers

#Academia #Libraries #Negotiations #Publishers #Universities
@academicchatter

"On Feb. 6, Colorado State University Faculty Council passed a resolution to endorse the CSU Libraries’ licensing priorities."
https://source.colostate.edu/faculty-council-endorses-csu-libraries-licensing-priorities/

PS: I just added the CSU resolution to the crowd-sourced #OpenAccessDirectory list of institutional principles for negotiating with publishers.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Institutional_principles_for_negotiating_with_publishers

#Academia #Libraries #Negotiations #Publishers #Universities
@academicchatter

5/ Major update. The fired and resigning editors of the old #Wiley journal (Journal of Political Philosophy) just launched a new #OpenAccess journal (Political Philosophy) from the @openlibhums.

I track these journal "declarations of independence" in the #OpenAccessDirectory, and just added an entry for this one, near the bottom in chronological order.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence

#DeclarationsOfIndependence #OpenLibraryOfHumanities #Philosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy

5/ Major update. The fired and resigning editors of the old #Wiley journal (Journal of Political Philosophy) just launched a new #OpenAccess journal (Political Philosophy) from the @openlibhums.

I track these journal "declarations of independence" in the #OpenAccessDirectory, and just added an entry for this one, near the bottom in chronological order.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence

#DeclarationsOfIndependence #OpenLibraryOfHumanities #Philosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy

Kudos to UColorado Boulder for its new Resolution in Support of #Libraries #Licensing Priorities. Among other things it supports author #RightsRetention.
https://www.colorado.edu/bfa/sites/default/files/attached-files/bfa-r-1-083023_libraries_licensing_priorities.2_approved.pdf

Also see the announcement and summary.
https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/2023/10/11/cu-boulder-faculty-and-university-libraries-call-equitable-access-information

I've added it to the #OpenAccessDirectory list of institutional principles for negotiating with #publishers.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Institutional_principles_for_negotiating_with_publishers

#Academia
@academicchatter

Kudos to UColorado Boulder for its new Resolution in Support of #Libraries #Licensing Priorities. Among other things it supports author #RightsRetention.
https://www.colorado.edu/bfa/sites/default/files/attached-files/bfa-r-1-083023_libraries_licensing_priorities.2_approved.pdf

Also see the announcement and summary.
https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/2023/10/11/cu-boulder-faculty-and-university-libraries-call-equitable-access-information

I've added it to the #OpenAccessDirectory list of institutional principles for negotiating with #publishers.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Institutional_principles_for_negotiating_with_publishers

#Academia
@academicchatter

Kudos to Queen's University Belfast (@qubelfast) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/CustomerService/PoliciesandRegulations/ResearchPublicationsandCopyrightPolicy/

h/t @sallyrumsey

See the steadily growing worldwide list of these polices at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

#Academia
@academicchatter

Kudos to Queen's University Belfast (@qubelfast) for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/CustomerService/PoliciesandRegulations/ResearchPublicationsandCopyrightPolicy/

h/t @sallyrumsey

See the steadily growing worldwide list of these polices at the #OpenAccessDirectory.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

#Academia
@academicchatter

All 47 editors of #TaylorAndFrancis' _Critical Public Health_ just resigned to protest the journal's high #APC and launch a new, more affordable #OpenAccess journal.
https://cphn.net/breaking-news/

T&F required an APC of £2700, "an unsustainable cost for…funders and…libraries in high income countries and an impossible cost for many in less advantaged countries."

See the #OpenAccessDirectory list of similar journal Declarations of Independence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence

#ScholComm

🧵

All 47 editors of #TaylorAndFrancis' _Critical Public Health_ just resigned to protest the journal's high #APC and launch a new, more affordable #OpenAccess journal.
https://cphn.net/breaking-news/

T&F required an APC of £2700, "an unsustainable cost for…funders and…libraries in high income countries and an impossible cost for many in less advantaged countries."

See the #OpenAccessDirectory list of similar journal Declarations of Independence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence

#ScholComm

🧵

All 40+ editors of #Elsevier's _NeuroImage_ just resigned to protest the journal's high #APC and launch a new, more affordable #OpenAccess journal.
https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf

"Elsevier…set the NeuroImage APC…at $3,450 USD. Compared against this, estimates of direct article costs at relevant journals are generally around $1,000 or lower.…It is wrong for publishers to make such high profits."

See the #OpenAccessDirectory list of similar journal Declarations of Independence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence

All 40+ editors of #Elsevier's _NeuroImage_ just resigned to protest the journal's high #APC and launch a new, more affordable #OpenAccess journal.
https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf

"Elsevier…set the NeuroImage APC…at $3,450 USD. Compared against this, estimates of direct article costs at relevant journals are generally around $1,000 or lower.…It is wrong for publishers to make such high profits."

See the #OpenAccessDirectory list of similar journal Declarations of Independence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence