Johan Rooryck
@johanrooryck.bsky.social
Linguist | Editor | Co-coordinator, European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social, @eudch.bsky.social
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🎉 We’re proud to be members of the newly launched Open Journals Collective!
At OLH, we believe in community-led, non-profit diamond open access publishing. OJC is a big step toward a more equitable future for journals and the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem
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At OLH, we believe in community-led, non-profit diamond open access publishing. OJC is a big step toward a more equitable future for journals and the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem
Read more 👇
We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
🎉 We’re proud to be members of the newly launched Open Journals Collective!
At OLH, we believe in community-led, non-profit diamond open access publishing. OJC is a big step toward a more equitable future for journals and the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem
Read more 👇
At OLH, we believe in community-led, non-profit diamond open access publishing. OJC is a big step toward a more equitable future for journals and the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem
Read more 👇
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New resources to advance #DiamondOA in Africa, Europe, and Latin America!
✅Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems
✅Landscape Report on Diamond OA Publishing
✅Advocacy Materials: talking points, videoclips and organisation guide for online events.
Find resources: u2l.fr/9qt8bo
✅Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems
✅Landscape Report on Diamond OA Publishing
✅Advocacy Materials: talking points, videoclips and organisation guide for online events.
Find resources: u2l.fr/9qt8bo
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 AM
New resources to advance #DiamondOA in Africa, Europe, and Latin America!
✅Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems
✅Landscape Report on Diamond OA Publishing
✅Advocacy Materials: talking points, videoclips and organisation guide for online events.
Find resources: u2l.fr/9qt8bo
✅Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems
✅Landscape Report on Diamond OA Publishing
✅Advocacy Materials: talking points, videoclips and organisation guide for online events.
Find resources: u2l.fr/9qt8bo
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This is part of where your APCs go when you publish in MDPI and Frontiers. They use that money to buy more influence.
Until funders, WoS, take meaningful action, they will continue to use muzzle velocity to overcome criticisms.
Until funders, WoS, take meaningful action, they will continue to use muzzle velocity to overcome criticisms.
Plus, MDPI/Frontiers spend big money to convince governments they're not just legit, but leaders. Frontiers just sponsored WEF Davos, MDPI signed a deal with German national science agency.
🇩🇪+MDPI: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/germany...
Davos: sciencehouse.frontiersin.org/event/945d08...
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🇩🇪+MDPI: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/germany...
Davos: sciencehouse.frontiersin.org/event/945d08...
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Germany faces questions over publishing agreement with MDPI
Landmark deal should raise questions about publisher’s practices on peer review, citations and special issues, say research sleuths
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
This is part of where your APCs go when you publish in MDPI and Frontiers. They use that money to buy more influence.
Until funders, WoS, take meaningful action, they will continue to use muzzle velocity to overcome criticisms.
Until funders, WoS, take meaningful action, they will continue to use muzzle velocity to overcome criticisms.
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“We have to find significant non-pay budget savings so this was the obvious place to start,”
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal
Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:02 AM
“We have to find significant non-pay budget savings so this was the obvious place to start,”
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
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OLH has just released its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy!
After a year-long consultation with our journal editors, the policy sets out how generative AI can be used responsibly in academic publishing. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/885/
After a year-long consultation with our journal editors, the policy sets out how generative AI can be used responsibly in academic publishing. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/885/
New Artificial Intelligence Policy released by OLH
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is delighted to announce that it has published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy following more than a year-long consultation process with our journals' edit...
www.openlibhums.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:29 PM
OLH has just released its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy!
After a year-long consultation with our journal editors, the policy sets out how generative AI can be used responsibly in academic publishing. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/885/
After a year-long consultation with our journal editors, the policy sets out how generative AI can be used responsibly in academic publishing. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/885/
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"Affordable scaling options are then available as journals grow"
This 'freemium' model is clearly a ploy to get new journals on board in order to pressure them into publishing more articles, probably through special issues knowing MDPI.
This 'freemium' model is clearly a ploy to get new journals on board in order to pressure them into publishing more articles, probably through special issues knowing MDPI.
MDPI launches new 'freemium' model - Research Information
Initiative hopes to help smaller journals, particularly those in underserved markets and global south, with growth and impact
www.researchinformation.info
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM
"Affordable scaling options are then available as journals grow"
This 'freemium' model is clearly a ploy to get new journals on board in order to pressure them into publishing more articles, probably through special issues knowing MDPI.
This 'freemium' model is clearly a ploy to get new journals on board in order to pressure them into publishing more articles, probably through special issues knowing MDPI.
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How to do #RefereeCredit: Discussing 6 implementation ideas workshopped @coarassessment.bsky.social in Berlin with co-chairs @johanrooryck.bsky.social and TungTung Chan. cf. zenodo.org/records/1596.... Contact us to join pilots #ResearchAsessment
@embopress.org
@embopress.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM
How to do #RefereeCredit: Discussing 6 implementation ideas workshopped @coarassessment.bsky.social in Berlin with co-chairs @johanrooryck.bsky.social and TungTung Chan. cf. zenodo.org/records/1596.... Contact us to join pilots #ResearchAsessment
@embopress.org
@embopress.org
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Thanks to Jeffrey and the @science.org news team for this highlight!
Find the paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
Find the paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns
www.science.org
January 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Thanks to Jeffrey and the @science.org news team for this highlight!
Find the paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
Find the paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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Pettenon, E., Sanfelici, E. & Mateu, V., (2026) “Featural Relativized Minimality in silence: the acquisition of sluicing in Italian”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
Featural Relativized Minimality in silence: the acquisition of sluicing in Italian
This paper investigates the acquisition of elliptical indirect wh-questions, i.e. sluicing, by Italian preschool children. The goal is to determine whether the locality principle of featural Relativiz...
doi.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Pettenon, E., Sanfelici, E. & Mateu, V., (2026) “Featural Relativized Minimality in silence: the acquisition of sluicing in Italian”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
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Muñoz Pérez, C., (2026) “Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative SE”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative <em>SE</em>
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This paper examines an understudied syntactic phenomenon in Chilean Spanish: stylistic applicatives. This construction inv...
doi.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Muñoz Pérez, C., (2026) “Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative SE”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
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Burukina, I., (2026) “Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction
The paper discusses mechanisms of clausal adjunction, that is, transforming a clause into a modifier with a specific interpretation (purpose, temporal, causal, etc.). It focuses on infinitival rationa...
doi.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Burukina, I., (2026) “Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1).
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
doi: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics
A walk in the park
January 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
A walk in the park
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Four new articles published in Syntactic Theory and Research / @starlinguistics.bsky.social. Check them out at: star-linguistics.org...
January 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Four new articles published in Syntactic Theory and Research / @starlinguistics.bsky.social. Check them out at: star-linguistics.org...
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It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.
December 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.
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🎄 Day 5 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas
On the fifth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC.
Learn about #diamondOA:
On the fifth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC.
Learn about #diamondOA:
Open access movement - Open Library of Humanities
We are part of a broader political movement. Read on to find out more about the visionary scholar-activists that made this political movement possible.
www.openlibhums.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎄 Day 5 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas
On the fifth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC.
Learn about #diamondOA:
On the fifth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC.
Learn about #diamondOA:
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"we need to conceive of these “publishing beyond the market” enterprises as immanent utopias, spaces that show possibility within a system that they cannot overthrow, but that they can nonetheless structure through critique"
Further thoughts on @samuelmoore.org's book
eve.gd/2025/12/28/p...
Further thoughts on @samuelmoore.org's book
eve.gd/2025/12/28/p...
Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Since I last wrote, I have had a few more thoughts on Samuel Moore’s book. Again, these are not necessarily things that he does not discuss or things that he...
eve.gd
December 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"we need to conceive of these “publishing beyond the market” enterprises as immanent utopias, spaces that show possibility within a system that they cannot overthrow, but that they can nonetheless structure through critique"
Further thoughts on @samuelmoore.org's book
eve.gd/2025/12/28/p...
Further thoughts on @samuelmoore.org's book
eve.gd/2025/12/28/p...
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3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers out in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchips.bsky.social, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.org
December 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers out in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchips.bsky.social, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.org
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🌍 Webinar Replay: Reclaiming knowledge: why Diamond Open Access matters
👉 u2l.fr/qd96dt
✅ Key topics:
Why APC-based systems limit participation and shape research assessment
Legal principles for public-good publishing
How community-owned models reduce financial barriers and empower researchers
👉 u2l.fr/qd96dt
✅ Key topics:
Why APC-based systems limit participation and shape research assessment
Legal principles for public-good publishing
How community-owned models reduce financial barriers and empower researchers
Reclaiming knowledge: why Diamond Open Access matters
YouTube video by ALMASI Project
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December 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🌍 Webinar Replay: Reclaiming knowledge: why Diamond Open Access matters
👉 u2l.fr/qd96dt
✅ Key topics:
Why APC-based systems limit participation and shape research assessment
Legal principles for public-good publishing
How community-owned models reduce financial barriers and empower researchers
👉 u2l.fr/qd96dt
✅ Key topics:
Why APC-based systems limit participation and shape research assessment
Legal principles for public-good publishing
How community-owned models reduce financial barriers and empower researchers
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🎉The inaugural webinar of the Discussion Series on Scholar-led Publishing was today and it was perfect!
🙏Thank you to the 3 speakers and participants.
👀To see an overview of the presentations, expand the thread.
🙏Thank you to the 3 speakers and participants.
👀To see an overview of the presentations, expand the thread.
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🎉The inaugural webinar of the Discussion Series on Scholar-led Publishing was today and it was perfect!
🙏Thank you to the 3 speakers and participants.
👀To see an overview of the presentations, expand the thread.
🙏Thank you to the 3 speakers and participants.
👀To see an overview of the presentations, expand the thread.
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"All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal, Philosophical Logic."
dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...
dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...
Editors at Springer’s Journal of Philosophical Logic Resign, Launch New Open Access Journal - Daily Nous
All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature's Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new "diamo...
dailynous.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal, Philosophical Logic."
dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...
dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...
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3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers out in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchips.bsky.social, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers out in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchips.bsky.social, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.org
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I know there are lots of people at fault here, but the fact that such an obviously unethical article got published is another illustration of how publishers have completely lost control of what they're publishing in the push for APCs.
Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I know there are lots of people at fault here, but the fact that such an obviously unethical article got published is another illustration of how publishers have completely lost control of what they're publishing in the push for APCs.
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We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:
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Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
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Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
openjournalscollective.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:
openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...
Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...
Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
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The Open Journals Collective is growing! If you're interested in helping shape the future and sustainability of Diamond Open Access publishing, then check out these roles at OJC.
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We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:
openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...
Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...
Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
openjournalscollective.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Open Journals Collective is growing! If you're interested in helping shape the future and sustainability of Diamond Open Access publishing, then check out these roles at OJC.
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