Tracy Creagh

🌐 Strengthening Open Access Together: DOAJ and Libraries Supporting a Sustainable Australasian Publishing Ecosystem 📅 November 5 How @doaj.bsky.social is working with libraries to support a more open, equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem ▶️ caul.edu.au/event/?id=118

🔵 OAA's response to the 2026 NRI Roadmap consultation Submission calls for coordinated, sustained investment in open research infrastructure so that Australian research remains discoverable, appropriately accessible, connected, preserved and responsibly reusable ▶️ oaaustralasia.org/response-202...

We're at 77% of our fundraising target! - help us close the gap and get to 80% by Christmas! In #OAWeek become a Supporter and make a one-off investment in the Open Journals Collective at an amount of your choice!

🔶 Can Data Sovereignty and Open Access Co-exist? Perspectives from across the Asia Pacific on the cost of open knowledge #OAWeek2026 📅 29 October OAA and @oaspa.bsky.social webinar exploring the ethical governance of Indigenous data ▶️ www.oaspa.org/events/can-d...

💰 The Price is Right OA Week 2026 edition: Exploring the True Cost of Open Access #OAWeek2026 📅 22 October 🎤 Host: @dannykay68.bsky.social Director, Library Services (Information) at Deakin University 📺 Full details and registration oaaustralasia.org/events/oawee...

Join DOAJ and @dorassessment.bsky.social for an interactive community consultation (across two regions)📅📅📅October 27 🌏 For the Asia Pacific region: Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🌎 For the Americas, Africa and Europe region Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@janewayolh.bsky.social is pleased to announce a new collaboration with @plos.org to extend Janeway for parts of PLOS’s article submission process. PLOS will contribute code, expertise and ideas upstream, strengthening shared open-source publishing infrastructure. www.openlibhums.org/news/1025/

Webinar invitation: Can Data Sovereignty and Open Access Co-exist? October 29 OASPA and @oaaustralasia.bsky.social are delighted to be collaborating on a webinar bringing together perspectives from across the Asia Pacific. Full info: www.oaspa.org/events/can-d...

#OAWeek2026 Webinar Paying in Data - Surveillance, #AI and the Future of Open Access Throughout October, OAA brings together leading regional and international speakers for a month-long program 📅 14 October Co‑hosted by @sparcopen.bsky.social 🔗 oaaustralasia.org/events/oawee...

🔶 September Newsletter 📰 Look out for upcoming events including #OAWeek2026 🔸 What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand - and globally 🔸 Recent writing & resources on OA 🔸 Round-up of regional communities of practice oaaustralasia.org/september-20...

🌎Join librarians and library publishers from Canada, Australia and Aotearoa NZ for a conversation on library publishing, OJS and community-owned scholarly infrastructure @pkp.sfu.ca @carl-abrc.bsky.social Details and registration caul.edu.au/event/?id=117

Quality in Diamond Open Access Publishing: guidelines, policies and templates | Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/17404838

Throughout October, OAA brings together leading regional and international speakers for a month-long program that looks beyond the price tag #OAWeek2026 The Cost of Knowledge: Modelling the Future of Scholarly Publishing 🗓️1 October Details oaaustralasia.org/events/oawee...

Still looking for librarians to complete our survey on how your library actually makes the decision to support OA initiatives - any country, any initiative. 📚

Thanks to ISSN International "Scaling Equity from the Ground Up: Diamond Open Access and an Emerging Library Community of Practice in Australasia" 👉successful #OA publishing can begin with practical support and collaboration, rather than large-scale investment www.issn.org/rubrique/act...

See Tuwhera mentioned here on the ISSN International News site "Scaling Equity from the Ground Up: Diamond Open Access and an Emerging Library Community of Practice in Australasia" www.issn.org/rubrique/act... The Tuwhera team is part of the Australasian Diamond Journal Publishing CoP.

A timely discussion for #OpenAccess from OpenAlex Is it time to retire the OA colours? Tell us what you think blog.openalex.org/is-it-time-t...

💎 #DiamondOA is about more than removing fees. It’s also about who owns, governs and sustains #ScholarlyInfrastructure. @markhusk.bsky.social & @johanrooryck.bsky.social also explore how #DiamondOA can help build a more sovereign, resilient knowledge commons. 🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/5fu8hua2

"Genuinely sovereign, community-governed, open source scholarly communication infrastructure is not a pipe dream." @johanrooryck.bsky.social @markhusk.bsky.social katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

The program for #OAWeek2026 from @oaaustralasia.bsky.social is available A timely theme this year exploring what's at stake when knowledge is treated as a commodity and what becomes possible when it is recognised as a shared resource, governed by and for communities oaaustralasia.org/events/oawee...

As scholarly publishing volumes rise, the long-term challenge is no longer simply providing open access. It is building sustainable, community-led publishing systems that support quality, integrity, discoverability and equitable participation futurecampus.com.au/2026/09/07/p...

🔶 August Newsletter 📰 🔸 What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand 🔸 What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally 🔸 Recent writing & resources on OA 🔸 Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing ▶️ oaaustralasia.org/august-2026-...

We're delighted to share news in the attached press release that the Open Journals Collective has received a major award of $711,900 from the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! Want to know more about OJC? Visit www.openjournalscollective.org

WEBINAR | Distributing knowledge for equity: two new books and an evolving concept for Open Science WHEN: Monday 14 September, 2pm UTC (8am Mexico City, 3pm London and Abuja, 4pm Berlin, 5pm Kyiv) REGISTER (FREE): buff.ly/0LDJaey FIND OUT MORE: buff.ly/siHgezR

How do we preserve trust, judgment, and scholarly integrity in an AI-mediated information environment? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/01/g...

💬 A busy September ahead for research assessment & scholarly publishing reforms! Join the conversation: CoARA Conference (8 Sept), STI Session (11 Sept), OECD Blue Sky (14 Sept) & OASPA Fishbowl (22 Sept). Let's connect the reform movements! @asapbio.bsky.social @sciencecouncil.bsky.social @cwts.nl

"The next chapter is about accepting collective responsibility for the infrastructures that make openness sustainable over the long term" Kamran Naim katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

📢 Vacancy – Library Engagement Manager Do you enjoy building relationships and advocating for open access? Join DOAJ as our Library Engagement Manager and support our efforts to build a sustainable future for DOAJ #DOAJVacancy #OpenAccess #DOAJTeam #Libraries Details: blog.doaj.org/2026/08/31/v...

We often take these open infrastructures for granted in our university libraries. Awareness of what infrastructures are most aligned with your institution’s mission and values is crucial @scossfunding.bsky.social

We need to talk honestly about the impact of LLMs and academic publishing At @lawtechhum.bsky.social the editorial team have been drowning in Slop. Welcome to the ‘Slop-verse’. AI and Writing about Law and Technology #ScholarlyComms #AcademicPublishing #AI #ResearchIntegrity doi.org/10.5204/lthj...

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🧰Putting the OA Journals Toolkit to work in #LibraryPublishing Jules highlights the Toolkit’s accessibility remediation section and the importance of collaborative efforts to build such community-driven open scholarship resources @oaspa.bsky.social #LibraryPublishing blog.doaj.org/2026/08/17/p...

1/ NEW Preprint on an important question for the #DiamondOA community: Who Owns, Publishes, and Governs Diamond Open Access? based on a survey of journals using OJS. osf.io/preprints/me... cc. @nataschachtena.bsky.social @mikaellaakso.bsky.social

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

📢 Upcoming Webinar: CORE: COnnecting REpositories - An Open Scholarly Infrastructure Supporting Repositories 🗓️ September 14th, 2pm AEST 4pm NZST #OpenScience #metadata #OpenAccess #Libraries 🍎 Details and registration: oaaustralasia.org/events/core-...

OLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages Our Editorial Officer, @maddiesinclair.bsky.social, speaks with the SNL editors about their move to #diamondOA, community-led publishing, and leaving Springer Nature to launch SNL with OLH. Read full interview: www.openlibhums.org/news/977/

🌱As alternative models such as #DiamondOA gain support, the future of scholarly publishing may depend on whether researchers collectively decide to shift toward sustainable, community-driven forms of knowledge dissemination @camthomas.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/16/g...

Scientific research publishing is a lucrative industry and unfortunately ... "an institution or a country’s wealth still partly dictates access to scientific knowledge" Frédéric Schmidt @camthomas.bsky.social and Romain Vaucher #DiamondOA #OpenScience theconversation.com/making-scien...

This represents an opportunity for universities and institutional publishers across Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand to elevate the profile of their #DiamondOA journals 💎We invite institutions to participate and help shape a stronger, more visible future for Diamond publishing in our region

Exploring the diversity of multilingual and non-English #DiamondOA publications - @johanrooryck.bsky.social and @jpolonen.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

@johanrooryck.bsky.social and the importance of an equitable, resilient scholarly publishing ➡️recognition of all contributions, support for multilingual & diverse knowledge systems, transparent standards for publication quality (rather than citations and metrics) katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

The ARC has published its Commitment to Responsible Research Assessment and signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). This marks an important step in ensuring our assessment processes are fair, meaningful, and support a diverse research culture. More: shorturl.at/xPtbr

🌐 Going far together in Singapore: Open Access Australasia at FORCE2026 #OA #ScholarlyComms @dorassessment.bsky.social @coarassessment.bsky.social @ginnybarbour.bsky.social 🔗 oaaustralasia.org/oaa-at-force...

DOAJ as a global open knowledge infrastructure, centring on the inherent tensions between establishing global standards and fostering inclusivity in scholarly publishing #OpenAccess #GlobalSouth #EpistemicJustice

📣We're excited to share the beginnings of OAA's Resources on Rights Retention This is a growing and open resource for the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand research community 📚Details, definitions, resources, case studies - and more: 🔗 oaaustralasia.org/resources-on...

🔸Open Access Australasia Strategy 2026-2028 We remain committed to advocating for and raising awareness of open scholarship in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, building capacity and expertise within our region, collaborating regionally, nationally and internationally. 🔗 oaaustralasia.org/about/

🌟 What a close to #FORCE2026! DORA Co-Chair @ginnybarbour.bsky.social gave a powerful keynote on rebuilding trust in publishing. Responsible #ResearchAssessment is the core of an interconnected system. Thank you to @force11.bsky.social organizers and all participants! "To Go Far, Go Together."

Comprehensive overview of the Open Access Policy update from the Australian Research Council (ARC) @arc-gov-au.bsky.social ensuring publicly-funded Australian research is open and accessible (active for ARC-funded projects from July 2026) #OpenAccess #OpenScience www.arc.gov.au/about-arc/st...

🔊The release of the Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan on Diamond Open Access reflects the deliberations of participants from 36 countries involved in the 2026 Summit in India (including representation from the Australasian Diamond Journal Community of Practice) 🗺️ oaaustralasia.org/bengaluru-ro...