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Some changes to where to find and how to join the CoPs Information on the CoPs can now be accessed from the OAA homepage under ‘communities’. We are also happy to be able to provide information about the Aotearoa CoPs here as well. To join just sign up under the group of your choice. |
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Old invites to meetings have now been cancelled. Existing members have already received the link to sign up for 2025 meetings and new members will receive that information in the welcome email when they sign up. |
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AuSCCoP Conveners Bronwen Forster, Anna Du Chesne and Em Johnson remain at the helm in 2025 for the Australian Scholarly Communications Community of Practice (AuSCCoP). More information and how to join AuSCCoP Diamond Open Access Publishing group. The group welcomes Caitlin Savage as co-convener for 2025 joining Zachary Kendal and Tracy Creagh, and thanks outgoing convener for 2024 Lauren Halcombe-Smith. More information about the Diamond Publishing group and how to join AuSCCoP Repositories group The group thanks outgoing co-convener Paula Callan for her work in 2024. Conveners Sarah Brundrett and Liz Latham have stayed on for 2025. There is currently a convener position vacant for the group and a call for EOIs has been circulated. More information about the Repository group and how to join |
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What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally |
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Clarivate announces e-book subscription platform ProQuest EbooksClarivate announces a new business model for eBooks. The new model will end one-time perpetual purchases for eBooks for libraries by the end of October and discontinue support for demand-driven acquisition in favour of subscription-only access, requiring libraries to maintain subscriptions to preserve access to core content, mirroring ‘big deal’ journal packages. Read the news announcement from Clarivate, the news bulletin from UKSG pointing to reactions from libraries and the summary and response written by Siobhan Haimé of the University of London for more information. Supporting regional and international alternatives that use open book publishing models and platforms such as Oapen and the Open Book Collective is essential to keep the OA book publishing landscape diverse and accessible. CAUL’s Open Educational Resources Collective is an excellent example of a successful regional consortial initiative that has made 37 textbooks open access and has over 80 titles currently being written. |
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Responses to the U.S. Government’s censorship of researchThere has been a lot happening in the research space since in the US since the inauguration of the 47th President. Public data has been taken down or deleted, researchers have been instructed to retract papers published on specific topics, federal research agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) have seen very significant cuts to staff. Peter Suber, who has played a most pivotal role in shaping and advancing the cause of making scholarly works freely available online since the inception of the OA movement, is running a wiki to track developments . Lisa Schiff, Alice Meadows, Catherine Mitchell and Peter Suber have drafted the Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship, which now runs to 61 pages of signatures, mostly individuals. Journals have responded with public statements, fro example: British Journal of Medicine, the Lancet; PLOS and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). As yet it is unclear what implications these developments have for the Nelson Memo which requires free, immediate (without embargo), and equitable access to research that is federally funded, with agencies to be utilising new policies in accordance with this directive by the end of 2025. For implications for our region read US censorship, funding cuts stymie Australian science research |
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Serbia announces new national open science policy – the Open Science Platform 2.0“The policy emphasizes five key goals: (1) OA to scholarly publications; (2) availability of research data; (3) open and transparent access to research infrastructures; (4) transparency of scholarly communication and methodology, including the availability of software source code, design documentation of research hardware and other digital objects used in the analysis of research data, and (5) the development of the digital infrastructure and competencies that make it possible to achieve the goals of the policy.” This policy highlights two main shifts in OA – towards a nationally coordinated approach, and towards the opening of all parts of the research process from the methodology to the publication of results – in other words to full open science! |
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DOAJ Annual Highlights 2024The Directory of Open Access Journals releases its highlights from 2024, including statistics, initiatives and actions from across the year: “2024 has been a year of steady growth and progress, where we continued to champion equitable open access publishing, raise the profile of trustworthy OA journals, and strengthened our organisation.” |
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Vision: “A world where education, culture, and science are equitably shared as a means to benefit humanity.” Mission: “CC empowers individuals and communities around the world through technical, legal, and policy solutions that enable the sharing of education, culture, and science in the public interest.” |
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Detection of metadata manipulations: Finding sneaked references in the scholarly literature“We report evidence of a new set of sneaked references discovered in the scientific literature. Sneaked references are references registered in the metadata of publications without being listed in reference section or in the full text of the actual publications where they ought to be found…These sneaked references are registered with Crossref and all cite—thus benefit—this same journal.” Fascinating preprint from this group of European authors. |
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The Copim perspective on Bibliodiversity“Whilst biodiversity allows ecosystems to survive and thrive, bibliodiversity is necessary to ensure a healthy publishing ecosystem that serves writers and readers. At Copim, we believe that “critical diversity” in publishing’s methods and outputs must be enhanced, protected and celebrated.” |
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What we are reading: Keeping up with AI |
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New Horizons in Artificial Intelligence in Libraries“This publication provides an opportunity to explore developing new library AI paradigms, including present use case practical implementation and opportunities on the horizon as well as current large ethics questions and needs for transparency, scenario planning, considerations and implications of bias as library AI systems are developed and implemented presently and for our collective future.” |
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Fantastic Futures Conference, Canberra 2024.“Technology, language, history and creativity converged in Canberra for four days as cultural leaders gathered for Fantastic Futures: the world’s first in-depth exploration of the opportunities and challenges of AI for the cultural sector.” Some truly excellent conversations in this rich collection of topics and speakers. |
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Why Editors At Scientific Journals Are Resigning En Masse“Editors at scientific journals are quitting in droves. According to Retraction Watch, a watchdog publication, there have been at least 20 mass resignations since 2023. So, what’s going on?” Dr. Andrea Taylor, former co-editor in chief of the Journal of Human Evolution and Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch and editor in chief of The Transmitter explain. |
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Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing |
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