Open science needs more than access.
It needs infrastructure, incentives, coordination and business models that make reuse practical and participation broader.

Read the full report: explore.plos.org/practical-pat…

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #ResearchInfrastructure

Interesting new study that shows huge knowledge gaps in spillover potential in endangered species which is bad news for us. It's also bad news for the endangered species themselves who are at risk of being wiped out completely if a new virus strikes, considering they are already facing serious extinction risks

Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wile…

#ecology #biodiversity
#science #onehealth
#openaccess

‼️ The deadline (December 1, 2025) for our Call for Abstracts on “THE IMAGINATIVE #LANDSCAPE OF #AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS” is approaching.

I am very happy to edit this thematic issue of @ijoc_usc with @ntnsndr as #openaccess.

For more information see:

comai.space/en/call-for-papers…

MIT dropped its contract with Elsevier, the huge scientific journal company. Their library instead arranged alternate access to journals and tools for researchers to get them. They’re saving $2 million/year:

sparcopen.org/our-work/big-dea…

#academicpublishing #OpenAccess #science #scientificpublishing

Congratulations to a Faculty Committee at the University of Rhode Island for calling for the closure of the university's #OpenAccess Fund which supports APCs. The Committee argues that "rather than covering APC expenses of a small number of URI faculty, OA Fund resources should be redirected toward efforts that will have greater impact."

These actions align with the #BOAI20 Recommendations to move away from APCs.

Full report: files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED6…

#NewSpecies!
New freshwater crab from #indonesia just pinched us:

Lepidothelphusa menneri

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE879…
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.…
#Zootaxa

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #crabs

New species concept just dropped ... no, wait, it actually seems useful. Wayne Maddison & Jeannette Whitton published in @SystBiol's #DiamondOA BSSB so it's free to read and free to authors. Even if the concept itself doesn't take off, I think lots of lectures are going to use the figures and ideas.

ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb…

#Systematics #SpeciesConcepts #Evolution #Conservation #OpenAccess

Very happy to share our new publication in PLOS ONE:

KIPEs3: Automatic annotation of biosynthesis pathways
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0…

Excellent work by Andreas Rempel (Bielefeld University) and Nancy Choudhary (@PuckerLab @tubraunschweig #Bioinformatics #OpenAccess

Psst -- look whose article made its way into the Communications of the @ACM...

@jlovato, PhD (🎉),
@amcasari,
and me!

Hope you enjoy our labor of love 💜🦦

#OpenSource #OpenAccess #BestPractices

cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/10…

New study: "We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their #code and that there has been no significant improvement over time, but we also find evidence that code sharing can considerably improve #citations, particularly when combined with #OpenAccess publication."
researchsquare.com/article/rs-…

#Impact #OACA #OpenSource #Reproducibility

Hi again #Mastodon!
I joined the fediverse when a lot of my community had not migrated from the bird site, so could only partially reconstruct it here using automated tools. If I followed you there and don’t here, say hi and let’s reconnect!

For those who don’t know me, I am a #virologist by training with almost 20 years of experience as a #science #editor, a passion for #microbiology and all science really, #OpenScience #openaccess & people

Have a lovely day everyone

#introduction #fediverse

This is how you do #openaccess:
"At an estimated cost of €30 (US$34) per publication, Psicológica can increase its output without incurring substantial extra costs."

nature.com/articles/d41586-023…

Why we think every scholarly organization, but in particular scholarly societies, should not just migrate to #Mastodon, but host their own instances - and what that has to do with the journals many scholarly societies use to generate revenue:

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi…

#fediverse #openscience #openaccess #infrastructure

The US National Science Foundation (#NSF) just released the draft update to its #OpenAccess policy, as requested by the #Biden #OSTP (#NelsonMemo).
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023…

I'm digesting it now but wanted it to share first.

Tho released today, it's dated Feb 23, 2023. (Why?)

Kudos to the Royal Astronomical Society (@royalastrosoc) for converting all its #journals to #OpenAccess, starting in 2024 — and for having a #Mastodon account.
ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/…

#astronomy #conversions #flipping #societies

Hello! 👋

We're Open Book Publishers: a non-profit, scholar-led, open access press publishing award-winning #OpenAccess books.

🌐 openbookpublishers.com/
📝 blogs.openbookpublishers.com/
📖 openbookpublishers.com/books

All our books are open access, and we don't charge authors a Book Processing Charge to publish with us. We pioneered a Library Membership model to support our work -- find out more:

📚 openbookpublishers.com/librari…

We're also building open, community-owned infrastructure to support #OAbooks with @copim.

We're looking forward to meeting people and getting to know hcommons.social! We might cross-post from Twitter for a bit while we find our feet, but we're excited to find out more about Mastodon as its own space.

Say hi if you're interested in our work!

#Introduction #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OA #OpenInfrastructure #LibraryTwitter

📄 Statistical code for #ClinicalResearch papers in a high-impact specialist #medical journal

Interesting #paper on the availability of #statistical #code in European Urology papers. And a checklist to get us all thinking about how good the code we share is.

thanks for finding and posting it first @MarkKelson

🔗 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…

#Science #OpenScience #Reproducibility #Research #OpenAccess

Hi Fediverse! 👋

We are very happy to be here! For those of us who don't know us, #PlosBiology is an #OpenAccess, #nonprofit scientific journal.

We are the PLOS flagship in the #LifeSciences. Our policies aim to depressurize de publication process & increase transparency. As all of PLOS, we're staunch promoters of #OpenScience.

Take a look at our current issue, with a gorgeous photo on the cover taken by one of our staff editors when she lived in #SouthAfrica

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/…

📄 An overview of open standards in scientific publishing in the context of #openscience and #openaccess #publishing

Overview of 102 standards and specifications, organized into ten categories. Essential ones were selected by defining an open standard for scholarly publishing as an uniformly documented, widely accepted and used, openly accessible / extensible specification that is applied to the creation, description, production, and dissemination […] #science

doi.org/10.14293/S2199-1006.1.…

Flawed Data

Apparently ... there are different #coping #strategy to deal with unreliable #data. 😂⏱️ 😭

#science #openscience #opendata #openaccess

xkcd.com/2494/