Sofie Wennström

💎 Welcome to the EDCH National Capacity Centres network, DOACH! Building on an existing community of practice among Swiss universities, DOACH aims to strengthen and advance #DiamondOA through collaboration. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/3jmexxxb 🔷 Explore more: https://tinyurl.com/2zmchv9d

We are equally thrilled to explore opportunities for funding our #OAbooks production and to offer more equal opportunities for authors. Funding #diamondOA books isn't easy, and we'll need to explore several opportunities to keep our operations sustainable.

Supporting the @ojcollective.bsky.social initiative will also provide funding for journals from @stockholmunipress.bsky.social towards long-term sustainability and #diamondOA #OAWeek

**WE'RE HIRING!** The Open Journals Collective is recruiting for an Administrative Officer. This is a permanent, fully remote role and the postholder needs to be based in the UK. Full details and how to apply are on our website: www.openjournalscollective.org/news/were-hi...

And still time for this one too! (Though @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social is replacing @joedeville.bsky.social on behalf of the OBC)

Does AI make us stupid? Listen to a conversation with four researchers including Åsa Wikforss, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University, at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm in October, 2026. The event was part of Nobel Calling. open.spotify.com/episode/6YVD...

Lara Speicher of @uclpress.bsky.social discusses how BPCs reinforce academic hierarchies and why UCL made the choice to move from BPCs to collective funding via the OBC in July. #OAWeek2026 #OpenAccess blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

📢 Webinar: XML in practice – tools and workflows for journal editors Join us for a practical introduction to XML, the JATS XML Converter, and tools for working with XML in OJS. 📅 29 October 2026, 13:00 CET 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/bd9vt42s #AEGISOA #DiamondOA

We’ll be exploring open access publishing by following one of @openbookpublish.bsky.social’s titles on its journey from conception to publication and beyond - a new approach for us, so it should be a fun session! 📚

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

Open access and research integrity go hand in hand, but not every OA journal is trustworthy. How to find a trusted journal: youtu.be/kmHdR_hlG9Q?...

📚 Do you work with #DiamondOA books? AEGIS-OA is gathering community input on adapting the #DiamondOA Standard (DOAS) for OA book publishing. Your experience can help shape DOAS to reflect the diversity and needs of the OA books community. 📝 tinyurl.com/y9t7xsjs 📅 Deadline: 18/10/2026, 23:59 CET

Thank you, Rene Tanner, for the inspiring presentation on #OER from the US! 🇺🇸 📖 It's a great moment to ask: What do we know about #OpenEducation in Europe? Help us find out – take the #OESurvey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/29W993M #LIBER2026

📣 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧! The 2026 Conference of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, co-organized with @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de and @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social, invites presentations, lightning talks, and posters. 👇 See the next post for key dates and how to submit.

Join us 15 July, 2pm BST for our next webinar where we follow-on from Wayfinders#7 to unpack further library perspectives on supporting non-author-fee models for #openaccess. Full details & registration: bit.ly/4vbjqDJ With speakers: Robin Sinn, Sarah Thompson & Jack Hyland. #OASPA #Wayfinders #OA

EIFL, together with ALLEA, EIFL, IFLA, LIBER, OPERAS, and SPARC Europe, call on EU policymakers to remove persistent barriers and accelerate the transition to Open Science across Europe. Read our joint statement 👇 zurl.co/rN1Bq #OpenScience #OpenAccess #FAIRData

There is pressing need for more accurate climate models to be able to predict future climate change. Ilona Riipinen takes a new step toward refining climate models based on observations & experiments from recent decades. @kawresearch.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...

What are conflicts of interest, and why do they matter? When submitting a journal article, authors are often asked to declare any conflicts of interest (COIs). The term can feel unclear or even intimidating. Our resource explains in clear language. bit.ly/4syM29n

We are very pleased to be able to announce that OBC and @ojcollective.bsky.social have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, committing to work together to achieve a sustainable, open access future, for both books and journals obc.copim.pub/collaboratin...

💰 The Price of “Free” in Open Access How well do we actually understand the real costs behind #DiamondOA? A discussion on the EDCH Forum highlights a new research initiative, exploring hidden costs in OA publishing in Poland. 🔷Join the discussion: bit.ly/4lDkZHm 🔷Join the Forum: forum.edch.eu

I'm representing Stockholm University and the Swedish Node for Diamond Open Access in this new and promising project. I'm looking forward to contributing, especially to developing more tools for #OAbooks . #DiamondOA

🎉 We're absolutely thrilled to be welcoming our first member of staff at the Open Journals Collective today - Thomas Shaw joins us as Library Engagement Lead and will be designing and implementing our library engagement strategy. 🎉 Welcome Tom! 🎉

🌎 Real examples, global insights, practical guidance. The Open Access Books Toolkit helps practitioners apply open access book practices with confidence. 🔗 Discover: oabooks-toolkit.org #openscience #oabooks #openinfrastructure

Helping authors choose trusted journals matters — and publishers play a key role. Many researchers find Think. Check. Submit. thanks to the links and guidance shared by publishers. And if you’d like a TCS speaker for a webinar or content for your newsletter, we’re always happy to collaborate.

Over 9 weeks, we shared 7 policy actions to advance Diamond Open Access. They’re not just ideas — they’re actionable, interlinked, and built on real challenges. 👉 buff.ly/ZV9jF6i #DiamondOA, #DIAMASProject

If you'd like to catch up with the @oaaustralasia.bsky.social #OpenAccessWeek event on Community Ownership the recording is now available: youtu.be/bdNdkWG-uCg?... I was honoured to speak alongside Dr. Kiri West (Māori Data Sovereignty Network) & Dr. Alice McSherry (Waiheke Marine Project).

Valuable overview shared by Dagmar Meyer. Spoiler alert: this is only the first elephant we see at #OASPA2025 today… (wait for Malavika’s session later!)

Adding to the conversation at #OASPA2025 about what we can do to change the current research assessment system. We should collect good examples, like the University of Sorbonne, which is using open data for analysis and invest in open infrastructures, see www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

AGREED the Mandy Hill at #OASPA2025 that we should design a publishing system we want rather than trying to adapt what we have. It would be open by default. Certainly the arguments publishers make for why we should pay for OA underpin how dysfunctional their traditional subscription model is.

POSTERS session at #OASPA2025 - a good set of work being described here. Posters are available www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...

URGENCY - from Stefano Bertuzzi at #OASPA2025 noting we are "living a terrible crisis where we have a breakdown in the shared methods that determine the truth". Again this invokes Merton's Norms of Science - Communism, Universalism, Disinterestedness & Organized Skepticism. We need re-evaluation

Enjoying being at #OASPA2025 listening to a strong panel on the topic of ownership of knowledge (wish you could all be here to hear it). While struck of the (probably inadvertent) matching of the @oaspa.bsky.social logo with the beautiful stained glass windows at the Irish College here in Leuven.

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

Yesterday was a whirlwind at #LIBER2025 but we managed to close the day with a workshop on monitoring of #openscience I’m privileged to be working with such great colleagues in the #openaccess working group as Andrea, Ivana, Alicia and @osiegert.bsky.social Thank you!

Hello #LIBER2025, Thanks for hosting @joannaball.bsky.social, @nielsstern.bsky.social, and me today to discuss collaboration for #diamondOA. If you want to learn more about the #EDCHForum and the #EDCHRegistry, join us for a webinar next week to learn about the potential of these new joint services.

It's conference week!⭐ And we have great news for those who can't join us in-person in Lausanne - the #LIBER2025 livestream! We’ll broadcast several key moments, incl. keynotes & the opening and closing ceremonies. 📌View the full schedule & stream link: ow.ly/gUW650Whoog

Today at 11:15 CEST join @nielsstern.bsky.social @joannaball.bsky.social & @sofiewennstrom.bsky.social in session 4 'Sustainable Operation and Development I' as they present 'Collaborating to Support Sustainable Open Access across Europe' at #LIBER25

Want to catch up on some reading or find out about tools to support #DiamondOA Why not explore the financial sustainability toolsuite of @eudch.bsky.social Follow the link to find out about these 11 resources from #DIAMAS 🔗 toolsuite.diamas.org/toolsuite-su... 1/2

Many inspiring thoughts today at the DIAMAS final conference. Lots to do within @eudch.bsky.social and the Nordic Capacity Centre. One great output is these practical recommendations. Something that can be used when meeting stakeholders on a national and regional level zenodo.org/records/1551...

Part 1 of two articles on how we curate academic publishers for the Directory of Open Access Books based on our requirements doabooks.org/en/publisher... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/03/g...

Enabling collaboration across borders is essential to ensuring we can provide opportunities for scholar-led non-profit publishing with increased or preserved quality. #diamondoa We will ensure that the Nordic Capacity Centre, nordicdiamondoa.org, connects to resources and guidelines from the EDCH.

We're delighted to introduce Graham Stone as our new Head of International Projects. Graham will have strategic oversight of our international project engagements & represent us in partnerships with other open infrastructures & relevant stakeholders. Welcome to the team @graham-stone.bsky.social!

Science is under attack. In this post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and I detail events around 5 types of threats, and we propose a resilience model to safeguard scientific communities and open infrastructures. upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...

Have you registered yet? Next Thurs, we'll address concerns about the quality of #DiamondOA #publishing and how technical and editorial standards ensure credibility. Learn more: graspos.eu/training-mat...

Had the privilege to represent @thinkchecksub.bsky.social to skilled editors at the @easeeditors.bsky.social conference today. Framing how independent learning tools like TCS can be used for quality assurance of journals by flipping the questions. More tools: thinkchecksubmit.org/resources/ad...

#OPERASProjects #DiamondOA | The DIAMAS project invites poster submissions from the scholarly community for the DIAMAS conference "The Future of Diamond OA Publishing in Europe and beyond", which will be held in Brussels on June 3rd. Learn more about submissions: The deadline is April 6.

Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements | Impact of Social Sciences https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/03/31/academic-libraries-cannot-afford-to-carry-on-with-transformative-agreements/

Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.

Webinar on the work that is done to allow Norwegian researchers to read and publish - this Thursday, 12-13 CET. What do libraries and publishers negotiate about on behalf of researchers and journals – and should researchers care? #openaccess #publishing#research uit.no/tavla/artikk...

Join us on January 23 4 pm GMT for our virtual seminar - Open access funders and enablers outside the library: fresh perspectives and lesser-heard voices www.oaspa.org/events/open-... Hear from organisations about engaging with OA to bolster innovation and help society through open scholarship.