Did you know that in the UK, at Elsevier, women earn 66p for every £1 that men earn when comparing median hourly pay. Their median hourly pay is 34.1% lower than men’s. 🙃

Source: official UK government data gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/EmployerReport…

Happy #WorkInPublishing Week! 😉

A real pleasure to have this out in preprint: Practical guidelines for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Comments very welcome, as this is pre-review

open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-204…

I sent this message to the JIS editorial team today:

Dear Senior Editor, Section Editors, Associate Editors, and Assistant Editors, as well as the Digital Storytelling Team:

I am writing to share that I have resigned from my role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of…

Strange framing of non-APC models as 'emerging' when they were in fact figured out long ago by humanities and social science presses, scholar-led publishers, high-energy physicists, Latin American institutions and many others.
nature.com/articles/d4158…

It is scandalous that, despite decades of warning, funding agencies & universities have allowed the primary output of billions of dollars of public investment to be privatized and made available only to those wealthy enough to pay Elsevier for them.
elsevier.com/about/press-re…

Para los amantes de los números.

Sabéis cuánto ha pagado España entre 2015 y 2018 en Gold #OpenAccess ( #APC 's = por encima de los gastos de suscripciones que pagan las bibliotecas)?

💲20,6 millones 💰

#accesoabierto

Aquí desglosado para cada una de las 5 grandes editoriales:

Aquí las el documento de Conclusiones de la Cumbre Global sobre 💎Acceso Abierto Diamante💎: 👇👇
globaldiamantoa.org/wp-content/upl…
La ciencia *y la evaluación de su calidad* son bienes públicos. A favor de recuperar el concepto de calidad científica y su aval como servicio público.

This is an exciting announcement! Can't wait to see this work unfold. #Preprints creativecommons.org/2023/10/04/cha…

We’ve done a guest blog post on the Open Book Collective website, about our first book that will be published #OpenAccess through OBC funding support. OBC is such a great initiative; ‘Entire of Itself?’ is a marvellous book; check it out here: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/the-white-… #envhist

Zenodo launched on next generation platform - InvenioRDM ift.tt/RsnOLxV

The seed of a global federation for Diamond Open Access has been planted - SPARC Europe ift.tt/QJ9Nc41

If this was published in a PLoS, MDPI, or Frontiers journal, we'd surely see a half-dozen thinkpieces by tradpub boosters complaining about low quality OA publishing.

But this was a Springer journal, so it's merely an accident, not a systemic indictment of a publishing model.

Wow (but also totally unsurprising when you think about it), open access research “used on average 42% more in patents”. Great for SMEs, helping the unlock the benefits of academic research 👍

This @morebrains analysis of the cost of administrative inefficiencies caused by academics retyping research management information unnecessarily is interesting and shows the significant value that scholarly infrastructures can deliver if they were properly supported.

We’re experiencing a major technology outage as a result of a cyber incident. This is affecting our website, online systems and services, and some onsite services including public Wi-Fi. We’re currently investigating the incident with NCSC UK and other specialists.

The Library’s…

Wonderful to see Latin America's pioneering work on Diamond #OA , highlighted in cOAlition S's proposal 'Researchers, such as in Latin America, have championed “diamond” publishing, that offer scholar-led publishing services free to authors & readers.' coalition-s.org/towards-respon…

R⓪ss Mounce @[email protected] OpenAlex No apologies needed. The Greek #openaccess monitoring system intends to use OpenAlex, for the reasons your have already mentioned. HEAL-Link ΒΚΠ

📢Big News! A team at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries (The Penn Libraries) has successfully completed the migration of Scholarly Commons. This migration involved transitioning from BePress Digital Commons to an Atmire repository. 📚🎉 #OpenAccess #Atmire #DSpace DSpace Community

As relevant as ever. Use networking site as well as, not instead of an OA repository. Even better, put a link to your item in the repository in your social networking site post

Huge kudos to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for being only the second Dutch university to adopt the #MoreThanOurRank initiative. This is a simple, risk-free way of signalling your recognition of the limitations of the global university rankings.

Learn more: inorms.net/more-than-our-…