by Ulrich Herb
Delighted to announce the sixth lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series!
🎙️ Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost & Behrooz Rasuli present:
🌍 The Global South’s Role in Shaping the #OpenScience Paradigm
📅 Oct 22, 2025 | 5 PM CEST
🔗 opendivide.hypotheses.org/563
🎙️ Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost & Behrooz Rasuli present:
🌍 The Global South’s Role in Shaping the #OpenScience Paradigm
📅 Oct 22, 2025 | 5 PM CEST
🔗 opendivide.hypotheses.org/563
The Global South’s Role in Shaping the Open Science Paradigm
In the sixth lecture of the Open Divide Series, Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost, and Behrooz Rasuli will present “The Global South’s Role in Shaping the Open Science Paradigm — an analysis of the Globa...
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by Ulrich Herb
💎 Diamond Open Access promises publishing without fees or paywalls. But: vague definition, hidden costs, unpaid labor & legal risks. Without prestige, DOA journals risk being ignored. Too good to be true?
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#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience
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#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience
Diamond Open Access - Too good to be true?
Is Diamond Open Access (DOA) the savior of stressed academic library budgets and OA advocates who are clueless about how to deal with the lack of transformation of subscription-based journals and never-ending prolongations of transformative agreements[1]? One might get that impression from the enthusiasm in current debates on reshaping the academic publishing system, a billion-dollar market that absorbs taxpayer money and serves as a ‘gatekeeper of progress’, with journals determining which research gets published, read, and cited. An ever-increasing volume of research is published openly: Anyone with an internet connection can read and work with such an article. For journal articles with OA, generally, two options have existed: Gold OA for journals that are entirely published without subscriptions and Hybrid OA for journals that continue to sell subscriptions but allow for OA to specific articles. So-called “transformative agreements” make every paper from participating institutions in such outlets OA, but the universities pay for it — instead of paying for subscriptions[2]. These contracts come with a plethora of problems[3] and Gold OA struggles with its distorted incentive for publishers to accept more papers to redeem higher APC revenue[4]. DOA is meant to tackle both: Following the common definition, it implies that there exists neither subscription nor publishing fees. Does that sound too good to be true? [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224 [2] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp8882 [3] http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224 [4] https://doi.org/10.1257/000282805774670112
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by Ulrich Herb
Who owns, produces & certifies open knowledge? I shared my reflections as keynote panelist at the OASPA Conference.
Read here 👉 pulse49.com/2025/09/22/w...
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OASPA25 #OASPA2025
Read here 👉 pulse49.com/2025/09/22/w...
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OASPA25 #OASPA2025
Who Owns, Produces and Certifies Open Knowledge? - pulse49.com
Who Owns, Produces & Certifies Open Knowledge? - my contribution as a Keynote panelist at the OASPA Conference (Sep 22, 2025)
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by Ulrich Herb
📢 Online-Zertifikatskurs „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren & #OpenScience“ (10 CP, Uni-Zertifikat) 📢 Themen: #OpenAccess, Qualitätssicherung, #OpenScience, Forschungsbewertung, Forschungsdaten, #KI und vieles mehr.
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Wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Open Science
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by Ulrich Herb
🚀 Neu erschienen: Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Wandel
Kompakter Leitfaden zu #OpenAccess, Peer #Review, Qualität, #Metrics, Forschungsbewertung, Standards – für alle, die ihre Publikationsstrategie gestalten wollen.
👉 pulse49.com/wissenschaft...
Kompakter Leitfaden zu #OpenAccess, Peer #Review, Qualität, #Metrics, Forschungsbewertung, Standards – für alle, die ihre Publikationsstrategie gestalten wollen.
👉 pulse49.com/wissenschaft...
Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Wandel - pulse49.com
„Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Wandel“ – ein praxisnahes Fachbuch zu Open Access, Impact Peer Review und Forschungsbewertung.
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by Ulrich Herb
🚀 My new book is out: Scholarly Publishing in Transition (2025).
It explores #OpenAccess models, peer #review, research #metrics, licensing, and the risks of predatory publishing — with practical tips for researchers and institutions.
More here 👉 pulse49.com/scholarly-pu...
It explores #OpenAccess models, peer #review, research #metrics, licensing, and the risks of predatory publishing — with practical tips for researchers and institutions.
More here 👉 pulse49.com/scholarly-pu...
Scholarly Publishing in Transition - pulse49.com
"Scholarly Publishing in Transition" – a practice-oriented textbook on Open Access, Impact, Peer Review, and Research Evaluation
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by Ulrich Herb
Honored to be invited as a keynote panelist at the #OASPA 2025 Conference in Leuven, Belgium (22–24 Sept). Looking forward to discussing the future of open access with global colleagues!
More info: www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa...
#OA #OpenAccess
More info: www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa...
#OA #OpenAccess
OASPA 2025 Conference Programme - OASPA
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by Ulrich Herb
📚 Erfolgreich publizieren in der Wissenschaft?
Strategie schlägt Zufall. 🧠
Einblicke aus meinem Workshop an der FH Münster
pulse49.com/2025/06/27/erfolgreich-publizieren-in-der-wissenschaft-strategien-trends-und-tools
Strategie schlägt Zufall. 🧠
Einblicke aus meinem Workshop an der FH Münster
pulse49.com/2025/06/27/erfolgreich-publizieren-in-der-wissenschaft-strategien-trends-und-tools
Erfolgreich Publizieren in der Wissenschaft: Strategien, Trends und Tools - pulse49.com
Erfolgreich Publizieren in der Wissenschaft: Strategien, Trends und Tools, Workshop an der Fachhochschule Münster
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by Paolo Crosetto — Reposted by: Ulrich Herb, Dan Brockington, Winnifred R. Louis , and 10 more Ulrich Herb, Dan Brockington, Winnifred R. Louis, John De Vos, Ingrid Piller, Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Schweiger, Matt N Williams, Kath Albury, Matti Vuorre, Frédéric Delsuc, Bartosz Bartkowski, Paolo Crosetto
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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by Ulrich Herb
Surely simple to manage for libraries and streamlined for authors, but again a move away from Gold or Diamond #OpenAccess #OA…
Reposted by: Ulrich Herb
BTAA: Big Ten Academic Alliance and Springer Nature Announce First-Ever Unlimited Open Access #Publishing Agreement in the Americas www.infodocket.com/2025/05/29/d... @bigtenacademic.bsky.social @springernature.com #oa
by Ulrich Herb
Excited to announce the second lecture of the Open Divide Series 2025/2026. on May 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CEST).
🎤 #OpenScience and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights
by Thomas Parisot and Yann Mahé.
#OpenAccess #OA
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🎤 #OpenScience and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights
by Thomas Parisot and Yann Mahé.
#OpenAccess #OA
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Open Science and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights
We’re pleased to continue the 2025/2026 Open Divide Lecture Series with its second talk on May 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM CEST. The second lecture in the Open Divide Series will feature Thomas Parisot and Y...
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by Ulrich Herb
💶 Spending on #OpenAccess in Germany's universities has risen from €6.2M (2018) to over €100M (2024) – a 1500%+ increase.
🔐 Closed Access remains stable and still dominates budgets.
🔗 pulse49.com/2025/05/23/l...
#OA #Germany #ScholComm
🔐 Closed Access remains stable and still dominates budgets.
🔗 pulse49.com/2025/05/23/l...
#OA #Germany #ScholComm
Library Spending in Transition: Open Access Surges, Closed Access Remains Steady - pulse49.com
German Library Statistics reveals a clear trend: spending on Closed Access has remained stable, Open Access expenditures have surged dramatically.
pulse49.com
by Ulrich Herb
A snapshot of Open Access uptake across domains in 2024 – based on OpenAlex data. Life and Health Sciences lead with the highest OA shares, while Social Sciences stand out with the highest proportion of hybrid and bronze OA. More insights here:
🔗 pulse49.com/2025/05/20/s...
#OpenAccess #ScholComm
🔗 pulse49.com/2025/05/20/s...
#OpenAccess #ScholComm
Snapshot 2024: Open Access by Academic Discipline - pulse49.com
Snapshot 2024: Open Access by Academic Discipline. Gold dominates in Life & Health Sciences, Social Sciences lead in Hybrid, Bronze & Diamond OA.
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Reposted by: Ulrich Herb
Wie offen ist #OpenAccess wirklich? Ulrich Herb
(@uni-saarland.de) gibt im oa_blog Einblicke in die neue Veranstaltungsreihe Open Divide 2025/2026, die die Schattenseiten der OA-Transformation beleuchtet.
open-access.network/blog/ein-kri...
#WissKomm #DiamondOpenAccess #Bibliothek
(@uni-saarland.de) gibt im oa_blog Einblicke in die neue Veranstaltungsreihe Open Divide 2025/2026, die die Schattenseiten der OA-Transformation beleuchtet.
open-access.network/blog/ein-kri...
#WissKomm #DiamondOpenAccess #Bibliothek
by Ulrich Herb
🔍 #OpenAccess #OA 2015–2024: A 10-Year Review
OA peaked at 59% in 2023, then dropped to 47% in 2024.
📌 Gold OA dominates (45% of OA output)
📌 Hybrid OA rising via transformative deals
📌 Bronze & Green OA declining
📌 Diamond OA stable
📊 Full post: pulse49.com/2025/05/15/o...
OA peaked at 59% in 2023, then dropped to 47% in 2024.
📌 Gold OA dominates (45% of OA output)
📌 Hybrid OA rising via transformative deals
📌 Bronze & Green OA declining
📌 Diamond OA stable
📊 Full post: pulse49.com/2025/05/15/o...
Open Access Trends in Scholarly Publishing 2015–2024 - pulse49.com
Open Access rose to 59% of article output by 2023 before dropping to 47% in 2024. Gold OA dominates; Diamond remains stable but marginal.
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Reposted by: Ulrich Herb
l'Université de Lorraine has reallocated the funds freed up when they stopped subscribing to Wiley's journals bundle, enabling univlorraine.bsky.social to increase its #scienceouvert contributions to €134,000 or 7% of the university’s subscriptions budget. scienceouverte.univ-lorraine.fr/en/home/
Home -
The University of Lorraine has been resolutely committed to Open Science since 2016 and the opening of its HAL-UL institutional archive
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by Ulrich Herb
📚 Academic libraries pay vastly different prices for the same databases
Joel B. Thornton & Curtis Brundy expose how major vendors like Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society use pricing secrecy and NDAs to prevent cost comparisons.
🔗 Read more: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Joel B. Thornton & Curtis Brundy expose how major vendors like Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society use pricing secrecy and NDAs to prevent cost comparisons.
🔗 Read more: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Academic Databases and the Art of the Overcharge
Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society are comfortable pursuing a strategy of pricing discrimination. But libraries don’t have to go along with it. This data can help.
katinamagazine.org
by Ulrich Herb
🔍 Dritjon Gruda proposes AI-powered ways to speed up peer review
🚀 Smarter reviews? Less burden!
#AI #PeerReview
🔗 nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00526-0
🚀 Smarter reviews? Less burden!
#AI #PeerReview
🔗 nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00526-0
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
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by Ulrich Herb
🔒 #OpenScience Backlash: U.S. Limits Data Access
New rules restrict foreign researchers—especially from China—from accessing databases. Meanwhile, Nature reports China has overtaken the U.S. in cancer research output.
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New rules restrict foreign researchers—especially from China—from accessing databases. Meanwhile, Nature reports China has overtaken the U.S. in cancer research output.
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH blocks researchers in China, Russia and other countries from multiple databases
The Trump administration has blocked access to multiple data repositories maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for researchers in several countries, including a cancer statistics d | ...
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by Ulrich Herb
One of the best pieces I have ever read on #PeerReview, its history and origins, written by Melinda Baldwin. Gladly @ecologistgreen.bsky.social's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social posting directed me to it...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Scientific Autonomy, Public Accountability, and the Rise of “Peer Review” in the Cold War United States | Isis: Vol 109, No 3
Abstract This essay traces the history of refereeing at specialist scientific journals and at funding bodies and shows that it was only in the late twentieth century that peer review came to be seen a...
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by Ulrich Herb
even though e.g. Publish-Review-Curate combines preprints & reviewing @ecologistgreen.bsky.social is right: "The answer is to fix peer review (...), not to scrap it entirely or pretend it can work ad hoc in the comments section of a #preprint." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/17/g...
Guest Post: Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen
Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.
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by Ulrich Herb
Another very insightful analysis from @deltathink.bsky.social: Hybrid #OpenAccess prices increased below the inflation rate, effectively making them cheaper in real terms – quite the opposite of Gold #OpenAccess, where prices rose above inflation. www.deltathink.com/news-views-t...
News & Views: The Impact of Inflation on APC Costs
www.deltathink.com
by Ulrich Herb
Not to criticize, just to document the development: Between December 2023 and February 2024, the fee for Fast Track Review at the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) increased from 450 to 950 USD. #peerreview #scholcomm
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How to fast-track (expedite) a paper and what are the benefits?
What is Fast Track?
Authors sometimes have to meet publication deadlines, e.g. for promotion & tenure, thesis defense, grant proposals, spending of research funds before a certain deadline, pub...
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by Ulrich Herb
Not to criticize it (unless I'm mistaken), but is it possible that JMIR increased its Fast Track fee from 450 USD in 2022 to 950 USD in 2024? I am only seeking clarification...
www.jmir.org/author-infor...
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Journal of Medical Internet Research - Author Information
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by Ulrich Herb
🚨 Entire Mathematical Logic Quarterly editorial board resigns over conflicts with Wiley, citing threats to peer review independence. Announces new #DiamondOA journal: ZML – Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. #OpenAccess #OA
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by Ulrich Herb
🎙️ Kicking off the Open Divide Lecture Series 2025/26:
📅 April 23, 5PM CEST
🗣️ Rebecca Bryant @rebeccabryant.bsky.social (OCLC): Libraries Supporting Open Research – International Perspectives
✨ Abstract & registraion: opendivide.hypotheses.org/369
#OpenAccess #AcademicLibraries #OpenDivide
📅 April 23, 5PM CEST
🗣️ Rebecca Bryant @rebeccabryant.bsky.social (OCLC): Libraries Supporting Open Research – International Perspectives
✨ Abstract & registraion: opendivide.hypotheses.org/369
#OpenAccess #AcademicLibraries #OpenDivide
Libraries Supporting Open Research: International Perspectives
We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Divide Lecture Series 2025/2026, beginning on April 23, 2025, at 5:00 PM CEST. We will kick off the series with the talk:“Libraries Supporting Open Re...
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by Ulrich Herb
After 3 exciting years, scidecode as a company comes to an end. Huge thanks to Laura Rothfritz & Pablo de Castro for the great collaboration! The spirit lives on in new, independent projects. Archive & farewell note: pulse49.com/2025/04/06/c... #OpenScience #ScienceConsulting
Closing the chapter on scidecode – a look back and ahead - pulse49.com
Closing the chapter on scidecode – a look back and ahead. After three exciting years, scidecode as a formal company will be discontinued.
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by Ulrich Herb
🚀 Open Divide Lecture Series 🎤
Join us for a year-long exploration of the complexities of #OpenAccess. Leading experts will discuss key challenges, from commercialization, shadow libraries & commons.
📅 Start: April 23
📍 Free online event
🔗 More info opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...
Join us for a year-long exploration of the complexities of #OpenAccess. Leading experts will discuss key challenges, from commercialization, shadow libraries & commons.
📅 Start: April 23
📍 Free online event
🔗 More info opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...
Reposted by: Ulrich Herb
Open-science metrics are becoming more common in research evaluation. That risks recreating the problems caused by citation metrics, warns Ulrich Herb @scinoptica.bsky.social in this week's Research Europe @resprofnews.bsky.social
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Open science has spawned a new wave of metric-driven evaluation - Research Professional News
Measures intended to encourage openness are clashing with efforts to reform assessment, says Ulrich Herb
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