Thank you Maarten Zwart for sharing your experience of publishing in @J_Exp_Biol via our Read & Publish agreement with University of St Andrews.

Read & Publish participating institutions: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

https://research.adfoucart.be/adding-context

If, after publication of a scientific paper, you want to add, edit, remove, comment on something, provide more context, expand on an idea, link to some things that you've done after, etc... there is no easy way to do that. Even voluntarily retracting an incorrect paper can take years, so going through that kind of editorial process for just a small comment would be ridiculous.

Fortunately, I can use my own website for that purpose: in addition to the PDF preprint that I already hosted, I have now added a HTML "annotated version" of all my papers, where I keep the original text intact but add sidenotes wherever I think it's relevant.

It's a small experiment on hopefully improving a little bit the way that we communicate our scientific results. I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but I like the freedom that these sidenotes provide, just scribbling in the margins as I'm re-reading through the text.

Dear #AcademicBubble, it is my impression that raster images are only half-understood (if at all) in academic publishing. I frequently get queries from publishers asking for “high“ or “higher” resolution graphics without specifying the requirements in either dpi plus target size or absolute dimensions. Instead, I got plenty of very long email threads asking for an abstract 300 dpi. Once I explained the necessary pairing of resolution and size, another editor, copy editor, type setter will inadvertently restart the convo upon taking over in the production process.

Thanks to @AlainQueffelec our community-maintained list of diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) #archaeology journals now has more than 80 entries:

https://diamond.open-archaeo.info/

So if you're an archaeologist and you're still putting your work behind paywalls or paying outrageous APCs to corporate publishers, you can't say it's because you don't have options!

New CPDP book:

Data Protection, Privacy and AI – To Govern or To Be Governed, That Is the Question
Papers from the 2024 CPDP.ai conference.

45% off for CPDP.ai 2025 participants — available at the conference bookshop or online with a code included in your conference bag.

EU (hardback): https://www.groenewaterman.be/nl/boeken/9781509984015/data-protection-privacy-and-artificial-intelligence-volume-17-

Intl/ebook: https://www.bloomsbury.com/cpdp

The response options on the data sharing question for El$evier's "Safety Science" journal are just ridiculous. #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing

We are proud to inform that ACIG has been approved by Italy’s National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes and added to the list of classified scientific journals.

We are always glad when our effort to ensure the highest quality of scientific publishing is appreciated.

ACIG is already well known in Italy, with notable contributions from respected authors such as:
Marco Marcilu – Guerre à la Carte: Cyber, Information, Cognitive Warfare and the Metaverse (ACIG 2023/1) https://www.acigjournal.com/Guerre-a-la-Carte-Cyber-Information-Cognitive-Warfare-and-the-Metaverse,184299,0,2.html
Olesya Vinhas de Souza – Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and National Cyber Security Strategies: Quantitative Comparison (ACIG 2024/1)
https://www.acigjournal.com/Russia-s-Invasion-of-Ukraine-and-National-Cyber-Security-Strategies-Quantitative,190346,0,2.html

A big thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers for your continued support in making ACIG a leading platform for research on cyber and information warfare.

Applied Cybersecurity & Internet Governance (#ACIG) is published by #NASK – National Research Institute

I'm sure this has been proposed before, but I would really love it if, when I accepted a request to review a paper, that provided me with access to the cited papers. Especially when they are from the journal or publisher I'm reviewing for...
#proflife #AcademicPublishing #academicchat #peerreview

An eye-popping investigative story out today from the Harvard Crimson: "Harvard University Press Employees Say Director Drove Down Acquisitions and Morale" https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/2/harvard-university-press-investigation/ #publishing #academicpublishing #universitypresses

How can we make scientific publishing more equitable, accessible, and transparent?
Join the Young European Symposium 2025 on 3 May 2025 for their panel (including our own @mathijsvleugel):

“Breaking Barriers: Challenges & Opportunities in Open Science & Publishing in Europe”

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yesymposium_tickets-yes-young-european-symposium-activity-7321196454620913665-96n7/

#YES2025 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter (psm)

If you want to learn more about the Planetary Research diamond open access journal that will launch in January 2026, we just wrote a FAQ that answers the most common questions we get:

https://planetary-research.org/faq.html

Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).

Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.

Read it here: https://t1p.de/conf-rep-24

@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory

#Wiley no license agreement with #swissuniversities in 2025 https://www.unil.ch/news/1744106269223
#OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #NoDeal

Our latest #newsletter comes with some #breakingnews. On 31 March, the Swiss negotiations with Wiley were discontinued. We wrap up what happened, how the researchers at our institutes will be affected and provide some recommendations for action, as compiled by swissuniversities. Find more here: https://www.lib4ri.ch/lib4ri-update-39-no-deal-wiley #OpenScience #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

Imagine paying a $3,750 APC and then also choosing to pay an extra $5,000 to have someone (or some LLM?) write a plain language summary of your work for you.

I know this is April Fool's Day but this is actually real

source: https://becarispublishing.com/journal/cer/journal-information#Journal_pricing_information

!!! From "Big Deals" to #OpenScience !!!

The Université de Lorraine cancelled Springer (2017) & Wiley (2023) – and reinvests the savings in Open Science.

€500,000 is spent annually on infrastructures, support services and scholar-led Diamond OA – guided by a broad, representative committee.

Hear more in this #podcast with @fresseng and https://mastodon.social/@jflutz

#scholarled #DiamondOA #UniLorraine #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #scholcomm

https://doi.org/10.7557/19.8074

Interesting article on #arXiv - I wasn't aware of the early history. Quite a story!

"Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science"

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/

Latest title in Open Humanities Press's MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series:

Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

Open access
(= it can be downloaded for free)

If we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? It’s this question Gary Hall and his collaborators have been addressing for over 20 years with experimental projects such as OHP, Liquid and Living Books, and the Culture-Led Re-Commoning of Cities. Unsettling received ideas of the author and book, originality and copyright, real and artificial intelligence, these theorist-mediums test the ‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of creating and sharing knowledge enabled by media technologies, from writing and print, through photography and video, to computers and GenAI.

We perceive publishing as a journey that is not merely a straightforward, singular event. Why limit the dissemination of research and ideas to just a book when they can be shared through online courses, video interviews, and various other formats?

Our platform tackles two primary challenges researchers and organizations face today: the urgency of publishing research promptly and the creation of a fair revenue system.

https://www.republish.uk/insights/how-we-are-reimagining-academic-publishing