Sehr schöne Replik von Diethardt Tautz zum Diamond-OA Beitrag von Petra Gehring im #Merkur zum Jahresbeginn: https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/2026/01/30/diamond-ist-die-antwort-die-gegenwaertige-krise-des-wissenschaftlichen-publikationssystems-kann-ueberwunden-werden/ - lesenswert @sedoa #openaccess #diamondOA #openscience

Der Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) ist jetzt auf Deutsch verfügbar!
Die Übersetzung macht einen zentralen Qualitätsrahmen für faires, gemeinwohlorientiertes Publizieren im deutschsprachigen Raum besser zugänglich.

Der DOAS definiert erstmals gemeinsame Standards für Diamond-Open-Access-Zeitschriften – von Governance und Finanzierung bis zu Diversität und Sichtbarkeit.

🗞️ Mehr Infos: https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/diamond-open-access-standard-jetzt-auf-deutsch-verfuegbar

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #WissKomm #OpenScience #DiamondOA

From #FritzHolznagel: "When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes."
https://theconversation.com/when-science-discourages-correction-how-publishers-profit-from-mistakes-272657

Journals are slow to publish corrections -- slow as in years, even decades, allowing uncorrected articles to rack up citations. Corrections often appear behind paywalls, and conversely, paywalls make errors harder to detect.

"Science advances not by being right, but by discovering where it’s wrong – and fixing it. Systematic reform must reframe prompt correction as a hallmark of integrity, not a badge of failure…If publishers can profit from paywalled errors, they can afford open corrections…Journals should make corrections visible, prestigious, and citable, and expand #DiamondOA models. Wider access means more scrutiny and faster fixes."

#ScholComm

From #FritzHolznagel: "When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes."
https://theconversation.com/when-science-discourages-correction-how-publishers-profit-from-mistakes-272657

Journals are slow to publish corrections -- slow as in years, even decades, allowing uncorrected articles to rack up citations. Corrections often appear behind paywalls, and conversely, paywalls make errors harder to detect.

"Science advances not by being right, but by discovering where it’s wrong – and fixing it. Systematic reform must reframe prompt correction as a hallmark of integrity, not a badge of failure…If publishers can profit from paywalled errors, they can afford open corrections…Journals should make corrections visible, prestigious, and citable, and expand #DiamondOA models. Wider access means more scrutiny and faster fixes."

#ScholComm

#DiamondOpenAccess publishing at @TIBopenpub in #2025 included: two new journals, 10 new conference proceedings and about 350 articles. Many thanks to everyone involved!
#OpenByDefault #DiamondOA @tibhannover #publishing

Der Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) ist jetzt auf Deutsch verfügbar!
Die Übersetzung macht einen zentralen Qualitätsrahmen für faires, gemeinwohlorientiertes Publizieren im deutschsprachigen Raum besser zugänglich.

Der DOAS definiert erstmals gemeinsame Standards für Diamond-Open-Access-Zeitschriften – von Governance und Finanzierung bis zu Diversität und Sichtbarkeit.

🗞️ Mehr Infos: https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/diamond-open-access-standard-jetzt-auf-deutsch-verfuegbar

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #WissKomm #OpenScience #DiamondOA

Update. Here's another piece critical of #APCs (so far, so good), and reviewing other people's criticisms of APCs (even better). Yet it makes the wholly false assertion that all #OpenAccess journals charge APCs. ("In open access, instead of readers having to pay, the paper’s authors cover the expenses of publication.") It says this even though it also summarizes a position explicitly referring to #DiamondOA journals. It never mentions that most OA journals do not charge APCs.
https://undark.org/2026/01/07/apc-science-publishing/

_Environmental Health Perspectives_ was a #DiamondOA journal formerly published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ( #NIEHS, within the #NIH). When #Trump slashed the NIH and NIEHS budgets, the journal began the process of laying itself down. But now the American Chemical Society ( #ACS) will adopt it. Under the ACS, it will remain #OpenAccess but start charging #APCs.

See the ACS announcement.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/environmental-health-perspectives-joins-the-acs-publications-portfolio

See the coverage in Chemistry World.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/leading-environmental-health-journal-defunded-by-trump-administration-has-been-saved/4022745.article

#Chemistry #Funding #USPol #USPolitics

_Environmental Health Perspectives_ was a #DiamondOA journal formerly published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ( #NIEHS, within the #NIH). When #Trump slashed the NIH and NIEHS budgets, the journal began the process of laying itself down. But now the American Chemical Society ( #ACS) will adopt it. Under the ACS, it will remain #OpenAccess but start charging #APCs.

See the ACS announcement.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/environmental-health-perspectives-joins-the-acs-publications-portfolio

See the coverage in Chemistry World.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/leading-environmental-health-journal-defunded-by-trump-administration-has-been-saved/4022745.article

#Chemistry #Funding #USPol #USPolitics

RE: https://mastodon.online/@craftoa/115854111259587388

We're very excited to invite you to our webinar on @craftoa developments in #OpenJournalSystems for #metadata quality and #multilingualism in #ScholarlyPublishing!

Happening February 9th 2026 at 8 AM Pacific -- hope to meet you there!

Details and registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/craft-oa-developments-in-ojs-metadata-quality-and-multilingual-publishing-tickets-1977084302370

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA

RE: https://mastodon.online/@craftoa/115854111259587388

We're very excited to invite you to our webinar on @craftoa developments in #OpenJournalSystems for #metadata quality and #multilingualism in #ScholarlyPublishing!

Happening February 9th 2026 at 8 AM Pacific -- hope to meet you there!

Details and registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/craft-oa-developments-in-ojs-metadata-quality-and-multilingual-publishing-tickets-1977084302370

#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA

@TIBopenpub wishes everyone a happy New Year and all the best for 2026! We're looking forward to platforming many more #OpenByDefault publications in the coming year. 🎉 #DimondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience #OA 

Update. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0000000000004612
(#paywalled)

General thesis: Paying APCs is a hardship (true) and the prices are going up (true). Therefore, to help medical students publish OA, medical schools should fund their APCs.

The article never mentions no-fee OA journals (#DiamondOA) or no-fee OA repositories (#GreenOA).

#ScholComm

Update. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0000000000004612
(#paywalled)

General thesis: Paying APCs is a hardship (true) and the prices are going up (true). Therefore, to help medical students publish OA, medical schools should fund their APCs.

The article never mentions no-fee OA journals (#DiamondOA) or no-fee OA repositories (#GreenOA).

#ScholComm

Mit der Publikationsplattform Open Research Europe will Europa die Wissenschaft aus dem Würgegriff profitorientierter Großverlage befreien.

Ein Schritt, der längst überfällig ist, meint BJÖRN BREMBS ( @brembs )

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA

https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/

Mit der Publikationsplattform Open Research Europe will Europa die Wissenschaft aus dem Würgegriff profitorientierter Großverlage befreien.

Ein Schritt, der längst überfällig ist, meint BJÖRN BREMBS ( @brembs )

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA

https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/

Diethard Tautz and Paul Rainey propose criteria for journal quality entirely apart from citation impact and reputation. While you think over their proposal, don't overlook their case for some of the ways we'd benefit from having good criteria (no matter who first proposed them):
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00649-5

1. They could help us assess the justification for "public payments for journal services, such as #OpenAccess fees" or #APCs.

2. They could help "immunize against the predatory and fraudulent practices that are currently threatening the scientific publication system."

3. They could help funders "finance journals according to the Diamond open-access [#DiamondOA] standards as a basic infrastructure for science."

#ScholComm

Kudos to the editors of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤, published by #SpringerNature, who just resigned to launch a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics, published by @openlibhums.
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf

Here's the new journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤.
https://www.philosophical-logic.org/

Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025

UPDATE: The announcement letter (first link above) was initially undated, but is now dated December 10, 2025.

#Editors #OpenAccess #Philosophy #Resignations