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Further updates to the Open Access Directory listing of journals that are open access thanks to the 'Subscribe to Open' model:

* added 4 De Gruyter journals
* added 1 Mohr Siebeck journal (Religion in the Roman Empire)

oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Subscr

Now 119 journals in total & growing by the day

#SubscribeToOpen #S2O #OpenAccess

EU research ministers make fresh call for a full transition to free open access publishing
sciencebusiness.net/news/Open-
Open science advocates see room for ‘game changing measures’ in ministers’ stance, while publishers warn against ‘knee jerk policy interventions’

BIG preprint has just dropped:
"Wikipedia and open access"

"We find that open-access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia. What is more, they show a 15% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to closed-access articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open-access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with low citation counts, including recently published
ones."

HT @oatp
#OpenAccess #Wikipedia

Joint statement: Council conclusions on not-for-profit scholarly communication ecosystem - We welcome the adoption by the Council of the European Union (EU) of the conclusions on high-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy, and equitable scholarly publishing. As key public research and innovation actors in Europe, we are committed to supporting the development of a publicly owned, not-for-profit scholarly communication ecosystem in collaboration with policymakers in Europe and beyond. scienceeurope.org/our-resource

Meta reçoit une amende record d’1,2 milliard d’euros pour avoir transféré des données personnelles d'utilisateurs de Facebook nouvelobs.com/justice/20230522
«Meta a sciemment enfreint la loi pour générer des profits pendant dix ans », souligne le fondateur de NOYB, @maxschrems

Please contribute to this survey on practices that support scaling of research reproducibility reproducibility.limesurvey.net

Data is not available upon request psyarxiv.com/jbu9r/ "Only 25% of articles’ authors actually shared data upon request. Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request."

Au Canada, les incendies continuent de progresser, 30 000 personnes évacuées
L’état d’urgence a été déclaré samedi dans l’Alberta, où le feu continuait dimanche de ravager forêts et zones habitées, notamment dans le nord de la province.

lemonde.fr/international/artic]

RT @CoNOSC_Council
News from Spain: The Council of Ministers just approved the Spain's National Open Science Strategy. CoNOSC congratulates Spain on this important milestone. News in Spanish @FECYT_Ciencia ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/2023/m.

RT @ouvrirlascience
French Monitor 2022
👉67% of scientific publications and 71% of doctoral theses published in 2021 are open access
👉New indicators on research data, codes and software in beta version
@sup_recherche @Inria @Univ_Lorraine
frenchopensciencemonitor.esr.g

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