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CRAFT-OA project, aiming for Diamond Open Access @craft-oa.bsky.social · 3d

📣The Diamond Discovery Hub has officially launched during the final confernce in #Göttingen. @eudch.bsky.social Join the #DDH today : ddh.diamas.org/en
First photo by Martin Liebetruth.

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 3d

Bring on the revolution 🤺 #OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess @oaaustralasia.bsky.social

Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social · 3d

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 3 👇
Vive la révolution! Taking our knowledge back
🗓️ Thursday October 23
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 3 | Open Access Australasia

oaaustralasia.org

Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social · 3d

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 3 👇
Vive la révolution! Taking our knowledge back
🗓️ Thursday October 23
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 3 | Open Access Australasia

oaaustralasia.org

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 7d

OERs offer a practical, impactful way to widen access and rethink inclusion ... It means embedding openness into strategy, not treating it as a side project or fringe benefit @lseimpactblog.bsky.social #OpenAccess blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social · 8d

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 2 👇
Community ownership: relation, reciprocity and responsibility
🗓️ Wednesday October 22
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 2 | Open Access Australasia

oaaustralasia.org

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Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social · 11d

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 1 👇
The politics of knowledge: Who controls the story and who has access to it?
🗓️ Tuesday October 21
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 1 | Open Access Australasia

oaaustralasia.org

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 13d

Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions | www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...

Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions - Internet Archive Europe

The global Our Future Memory campaign to secure digital rights for libraries, archives, and other memory institutions has gained another powerful ally. Wikimedia, one of the world’s leading champions ...

www.internetarchive.eu

Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 18d

🌏Looking forward to #OAWeek2025 - a diverse international and regional array of speakers this year @oaaustralasia.bsky.social

Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social · 18d

📢 Registration is now open for Open Access Australasia’s International Open Access Week 2025 webinars

🔶2025 Theme: Who owns our knowledge?

#OpenAccess #OAWeek2025 #OA2025

Details and registration:
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

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Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social · 18d

📢 Registration is now open for Open Access Australasia’s International Open Access Week 2025 webinars

🔶2025 Theme: Who owns our knowledge?

#OpenAccess #OAWeek2025 #OA2025

Details and registration:
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 20d

According to the new regulation:
a) The Editor-in-Chief of Journals linked to the university may devote up to 20 hours a week to editorial functions
b) The Deputy Editor of Journals linked to the university will have up to 5 hours a week
#DiamondOA

Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 20d

So - how can we sustain Diamond #OpenAccess journals?
Well, here's an idea 👇💡
In Brazil, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina published a 'Normative Ordinance' that officially regulates the workload for professors who work as editors of their journals. periodicos.bu.ufsc.br/portaria-nor...

Portal de Periódicos UFSC

periodicos.bu.ufsc.br

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 23d

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social Publishers increasingly require (and academics are increasingly willing) to acknowledge and credit the role played by AI in their research papers
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

What do researchers acknowledge ChatGPT for in their papers? - Impact of Social Sciences

A new study finds LLMs to be acknowledged for only a narrow set of academic tasks.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Sep 8

@beneltham.bsky.social and the closure of @meanjin.bsky.social

“If an institution this venerable and important can be killed off with the click of a mouse, few cultural organisations in the country can feel safe.”

theconversation.com/the-decision...

The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better

The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.

theconversation.com

Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Sep 8

@samuelmoore.org explores the "importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing" #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComms
Publishing Beyond the Market 📚https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market

Publishing Beyond the Market

Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...

press.umich.edu

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · Sep 8

STATEMENT: Time to stop the undermining of library rights: IFLA statement on contract override www.ifla.org/news/time-to...
The Statement ... calls on governments to protect limitations and exceptions ... & look at how to ensure libraries benefit from effective protections against unfair contracts

Time to stop the undermining of library rights: IFLA statement on contract override

IFLA’s Governing Board has approved a new statement prepared by IFLA’s Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters. This sets out the risk of licensing practices fo...

www.ifla.org

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excellent overview of the rise of scholarly publishing in the
#GlobalSouth 👇
"The future of scholarly publishing does not lie in reproducing the prestige-driven models of the past, but in building systems that reflect the world’s full intellectual diversity"
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Point of View: How the Global South is reshaping scholarly communication

Publishing initiatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are promoting diamond open access, multilingualism, and non-profit, scholarly-led governance structures.

doi.org

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is why it doesn't make sense to make decisions about culture on "purely financial grounds" (quote from a university administrator).

Meanjin is a critical part of Australian literary culture, an outrage it is being shuttered so unceremoniously.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Aug 23

katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Scholarly Publishing Won’t Be Saved by Incremental Change

We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.

katinamagazine.org

Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Aug 22

Who's noticed the new #DiamondOA icon on Scimago SJR Journal and Country Rankings? Identifying Diamond journals as a specific type of #OpenAccess ...

Sarah Brundrett @tomesandtech.bsky.social · Aug 15

Registration is open for the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference, organised by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library -
www.un.org/en/library/O...
It's online and in a friendlier-than-usual timezone!
When?
16-18 October, 2025
#scholcomms #skybrarians

Registration | United Nations

www.un.org

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Aug 11

🆕The release of the full special issue on diverse experiences and expectations in the #OpenAccess landscape over the last decade - Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/issue/1...

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication | Issue: Issue: 2(12) Special Issue: Open Access: Diverse Experiences and Expectations (2024-25) (2024)

iastatedigitalpress.com

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Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social · Aug 7

🌏Open Access Australasia now on @bsky.app
✔️A Membership supported and driven organisation
✔️Committed to advocating for and raising awareness of #OpenScholarship #OpenAccess in Australia & Aotearoa NZ
✔️Building capacity and expertise
✔️Collaborating nationally and internationally
🔗 oaaustralasia.org

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Wayne Bradshaw @nonwayne.bsky.social · Aug 5

Here it is! My first article in library and information science (i.e. my day job)! It was an absolute pleasure writing with @jaymam.bsky.social and Tove Lemberget, and I really do think green open access is a powerful way of making research accessible!
doi.org/10.1177/0340...

Unlocking the repository: A strategy for increasing the uptake of green open access - Jayshree Mamtora, Wayne Bradshaw, Tove Lemberget, 2025

This article uses a recent retroactive open access project undertaken by an Australian university library to reframe attitudes and approaches to author self-arc...

doi.org

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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · Jul 31

🔊 We want your feedback on new PKP + @sfupublishing.bsky.social #OpenPublishing courses!

Courses:

* Making Knowledge Public
* #JournalManagement and Editing
* Technologies and Infrastructure for #AcademicPublishing

Survey open 'till Aug 8 - please share!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/07/w...

#OpenAccess

We Want Your Feedback! New PKP + SFU Open Publishing Courses Coming Soon - Public Knowledge Project

PKP is pleased to announce collaborations with SFU and Lifelong Learning for new open publishing courses, and seeks community feedback.

pkp.sfu.ca

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Sarah Brundrett @tomesandtech.bsky.social · Jul 31

This looks amazing! Bravo #OAA for taking the lead to discuss the future of Institutional Repositories.
9.00am – 4pm Friday 17 October 2025, QUT
In-person, no registration fee, travel and accommodation at own cost.
#scholcomms #openaccess #skybrarians #academicsky
oaaustralasia.org/examining-op...

Examining options for enhancing repository infrastructure in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. | Open Access Australasia

oaaustralasia.org

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Jul 29

@tuwhera.bsky.social now hosts 21 peer-reviewed, Diamond #OpenAccess journals - a sustained an ongoing commitment to inclusive and equitable publishing practices 💎

DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social · Jul 29

The value of @tuwhera.bsky.social an #OpenAccess platform supported by Research Services and Digital Development teams at Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services at Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa #ScholComms #DiamondOA
blog.doaj.org/2025/07/29/t...

The Tuwhera Team (left to right): Donna Coventry, Tui Gordon, Craig Murdoch, Luqman Hayes, Rudy bin Mahli and Thais Azevedo

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DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social · Jul 29

The value of @tuwhera.bsky.social an #OpenAccess platform supported by Research Services and Digital Development teams at Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services at Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa #ScholComms #DiamondOA
blog.doaj.org/2025/07/29/t...

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Jul 9

Fortunate and timely to hear from @joannaball.bsky.social today - speaking to the #library community in Australasia
👉insights into DOAJ’s current work and the role libraries can play in advancing equitable scholarly publishing @doaj.bsky.social

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SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · Jun 25

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme

Theme — International Open Access Week

www.openaccessweek.org

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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · Jun 25

@dannykay68.bsky.social trying to make sense of it all: “the implications of current geopolitical, financial and technological volatility? What impact will all of this have on the relationship between libraries and publishers, and libraries and their users?”
upstream.force11.org/trying-to-ma...

Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this

How do we make sense of the implications of current geopolitical, financial and technological volatility? What impact will all of this have on the relationship between libraries and publishers, and li...

upstream.force11.org

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