Good luck to all the small businesses, researchers and consultants out there. I am just a tiny cog in research and publishing but have lost two contracts and unpaid contracts due to US economic and research policy actions. These are difficult times with terrible tides to navigate

"Eight NZ universities spend $67m annually on journal subscriptions and read and publish agreements ... A small portion of it redirected towards diamond journals would enable sustainable, equitable open infrastructure and service." #openaccess AUT University doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.…

"As the old aphorism puts it, Americans do the right thing only once we have exhausted every other possibility."

"True open access, managed by academics for academics, it follows our mass resignation from JES (Journal of Economic Surveys) ... [we] envision REL as part of a movement to restore scholarly publishing to the priorities & values of the academic community.” pkp.sfu.ca/2025/04/25/sup…

l'Université de Lorraine has reallocated the funds freed up when they stopped subscribing to Wiley's journals bundle, enabling univlorraine.bsky.social to increase its #scienceouvert contributions to €134,000 or 7% of the university’s subscriptions budget. scienceouverte.univ-lorraine.fr/en/home/

"Multilingualism and discoverability of scientific content: the challenge of machine translation" assesses the promise of machine translation and how it could contribute to improving the discoverability of science in French. The tools struggle with nuance. acfas.ca/publications/m…

The impending acquisition of Amsterdam Univ Press by Taylor & Francis reminds us that, amidst all the difficult decisions universities need to make in the HE environment, almost everything within a commodified publishing industry is susceptible to growth & the commercially imperative

An interesting new preprint, "shows that the oligopoly narrative ... overlooks extensive local publishing ecosystems sustained by academic communities. The landscape of academic journals ... is diverse and grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives." osf.io/preprints/soca…

This is deeply sad news, especially for all the staff who have been immediately laid off. Please get in contact, and we'll do our best to share your stories and try to help get you placed. PubPub had many exciting ideas and... funding. It's always funding. knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025-0…

The PubPub news means it's time to roll out the much-used infrastructure image. A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded

On his way to the Boston Celtics, from Not-Ing-Hamm, England. Number 46 overall in the NBA Draft, 7-foot centre Amari Williams.

Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published PLOS One) reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater scholarly plurality. doi.org/10.1371/journa… #OpenAccess #Bibliodiversity

Extractive AI. Findings from Cloudflare 's latest Radar data blog post, "The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers", show that AI bots crawl sites as many as 70,000 times for every single referral click. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-craw…

This #Wimbledon2025 Final is reminding me of the 2019 FA Cup final, 6-0 6-0 #Wimbledon

Probably the best role in scholarly publishing and open infrastructure. pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/hir…

2025 is 75% complete.