www.freeourknowledge.org

Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...

New low-stake commitment to invest in open scholarly publication. Review once per year for a Diamond Journal: Sign up here: forrt.org/diamond-revi... Now also cross-posted on: freeourknowledge.org

Laurens Kemp: Still receiving signatures. One diamond open access article in five years, only if 500 signed! This is NOTHING, many great journals out there already as we have seen during the conference freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c... #horizondiamond2026

The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website. First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy tilburguniversity.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

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Thats a wrap! Our conference in reform in scholarly publishing is done #horizondiamond2026 horizondiamond.nl Recorded keynotes will be posted soon. Thanks to all involved!

Laurens Kemp: Still receiving signatures. One diamond open access article in five years, only if 500 signed! This is NOTHING, many great journals out there already as we have seen during the conference freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c... #horizondiamond2026

Our current chair at free our knowledge Laurens Kemp telling the story of founder @coopersmout.bsky.social and how we are carrying on the torch! #horizondiamond2026

Maria Constantin - Check out the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center's guide "How to flip your journal" research-portal.uu.nl/ws/portalfil...

Prof. Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University press) about how to flip a journal to Diamond Open Access. The story of Lingua (Elsevier) to Glossa www.glossa-journal.org

diamas.org provides a quality assessment tool for diamond open access journals to drive professionalization in scholar-led non-profit publishing. diamas.fecyt.es

Really lovely, energetic and funny talk by Prof. Gibson @openmindjournal.bsky.social "The value that copy editing from the journals provide? Well they change the thats to whiches, and they mess up the math. A lot of correction is needed AFTER copy-editing. "

@openmindjournal.bsky.social Ted Gibson from MIT discussing the successful case of Diamond Open Access Journal OpenMind in the field of cognitive science. Starting to outcompete paywalled and APC-based journals like cognition (Elsevier) and cognitive science (Wiley). #horizondiamond2026

Jan-Willem Wijnen introducing @openjournalsnl.bsky.social "openjournals.nl provides a platform that manages the editorial process, sets them up with a website, and the publication of articles (indexed, archived, findable). All Diamond Open Access." #horizondiamond2026

Jan-Willem Wijnen introducing @openjournalsnl.bsky.social "openjournals.nl provides a platform that manages the editorial process, sets them up with a website, and the publication of articles (indexed, archived, findable). All Diamond Open Access." #horizondiamond2026

Ending slide from Mark Hanson's @hansonmark.bsky.social excellent talk at #horizondiamond2026 with qr to the main papers strain, drain, and PISS paper. He also concludes "Funders can make diamond competitive". #horizondiamond2026

@markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy really good overview of the drain, strain, and 'special-issuefication' of publishing "Special issue is like a fast food menu with relaxed editor control" "MDPI has a massive impact inflation, more than anything else" #horizondiamond2026 Check out the app!

Lift off! Mihaela Cimpian has started the conferenceon reform in scholarly publishin. "We are at an impasse in scholarly publishing" "We are here to build a network" #horizondiamond2026 @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy will be the first keynote! horizonriamond.nl

This is a very much needed meeting on scholarly publishing. Sadly, I'll not be able to attend it in person but encourage all who can to do so.

The conference on reform in scholarly publishing happening this Thursday and Friday in Nijmegen! For those on Bluesky lets use this tag: #horizondiamond2026 www.horizondiamond.nl Were approaching a full house, but last-minute sign ups are welcomed. #publishing #science #research

Could not find all organisers on here, but thanks to @wimpouw.bsky.social @bregtlameris.bsky.social Laurens Kemp, Jos Baeten, Elisabeth Elbers, and Mihaela Cimpian!

Over 100 confirmed visitors to this conference, and there is still room to join for next week! Nijmegen, NL, 5-6 Feb

#cognitivescience Don't forget our pledge to publish one article in a scholar-led diamond open access journal in five years is still live. Were half way through! After another 250 sign ups the pledge will activate! freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Keynote announcement! Editor in chief of Diamond Open Access journal OpenMind direct.mit.edu/opmi will tell their story. 5-6th of February Nijmegen - one can still sign up at www.horizondiamond.nl

New keynote announcement! You can still sign up for this event in Nijmegen, NL in February! www.horizondiamond.nl

And another keynote! www.horizondiamond.nl

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

Agenda draft for the Netherlands Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre Year 2025. Open for comments and additions: zenodo.org/records/1493...

More diamond open access awareness happening!

Researchers, please consider filling in this Survey for the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center "exploring the motivations and challenges that early-career researchers face when engaging with DOA publishing." erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

who says that science doesn't generate profit?

Please consider signing up for change in scientific publishing

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Remarkable long thread by @jeremymberg.bsky.social , ex-editor of Science, explaining how the sausage is made at AAAS . I hope he'll post this somewhere as a blog or article as these long threads are a bit tedious to scroll through and all too transitory.

Were still collecting pledges to make room for community-led academic publishing! Please sign, and publish one of your articles in 5 years with a diamond open access journal. A baby step! And you only need to do it when we have a critical mass of 500!

Commercial publishers have been happily corrupting the scientific process for profits. It is really time to organize ourselves differently

Nu ook op VOXweb www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/bezui...

Concerns are growing about the reliance on a small group of commercial publishers and the high costs involved, which threaten accessibility for less well-funded regions in the world. NWO is therefore advocating for a more equitable and diverse publishing landscape.

Several Dutch academic stakeholders take an important step towards the sustainability of Openjournals.nl as a national platform offering (technical) publishing solutions for diamond #openaccess journals. Read more about it here: openjournals.nl/index.php/20...

Now also English translation (author copy): wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa... Dutch: wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa... Online copy: archive.ph/bfn1n