Ulrich Herb

📢 Who owns scholarly publishing?

On March 25, 2026 (5:00 PM CET), Vincent Larivière (UNESCO Chair in Open Science) will speak in the lecture series Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access about corporate control of scholarly publishing, journal prestige, and the need for collective infrastructures.

👉 Details & registration:
https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/866

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenDivide

🎓 Open Divide Lecture Series 2025/26 — upcoming talk

🎤 Kevin Elliott: The Promise and Perils of Transparency and Open Science
📅 Feb 25, 2026 | 5:00 PM CET | online

The talk explores different notions of transparency in science, their promises, limitations, and how to promote more responsible open science practices.

📝 Register:
https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r9a762ba7cf870f0de2a2ead23d7a0d43

📚 Full programme:
https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-2025-2026-speakers-and-topics

#OpenScience #Transparency #ResearchIntegrity #OpenDivide

Delighted to announce the seventh lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series! 🎙️ @Samuelmoore@hcommons.social on 📷 Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons 📷
November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET)
https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/rf646bc66d043c4c0a873c066c4741910

Delighted to announce the sixth lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series!
🎙️ Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost & Behrooz Rasuli present:
🌍 The Global South’s Role in Shaping the #OpenScience Paradigm
📅 Oct 22, 2025 | 5 PM CEST
🔗 https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/563

💎 Diamond Open Access promises publishing without fees or paywalls. But: vague definition, hidden costs, unpaid labor & legal risks. Without prestige, DOA journals risk being ignored. Too good to be true?
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17190229

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

Who owns, produces & certifies open knowledge? I shared my reflections as keynote panelist at the OASPA Conference.
Read here 👉 https://pulse49.com/2025/09/22/who-owns-produces-and-certifies-open-knowledge/
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OASPA25 #OASPA2025

Travelling with Deutsche Bahn is a torture. Four hours of travel time quickly turn into seven (a 75% bonus at the same price — so why am I even complaining), so I unfortunately miss the first day of the #OpenAccess Days (@OATage@openbiblio.social). On the upside, I was able to prepare my contributions for the @oaspa@bird.makeup Annual Conference (‘Who owns Hashtag#openknowledge?’) & the @zbw_news@bird.makeup #OpenScience Retreat (#DiamondOpenAccess – too good to be true?’). Hopefully I’ll see you tomorrow at the Open Access Days…

📢 Online-Zertifikatskurs „Wissenschaftliches Publizieren & #OpenScience“ (10 CP, Uni-Zertifikat) 📢 Themen: #OpenAccess, Qualitätssicherung, #OpenScience, #Forschungsbewertung, #Forschungsdaten, #KI und vieles mehr.
https://www.uni-saarland.de/studieren/weiterbildung/zertifikate/wissenschaftliches-publizieren-1.html

📚 Erfolgreich publizieren in der Wissenschaft?
Strategie schlägt Zufall. 🧠
Einblicke aus meinem Workshop an der FH Münster
👉 https://pulse49.com/2025/06/27/erfolgreich-publizieren-in-der-wissenschaft-strategien-trends-und-tools
🧩 Themen:
• Wo & wie publizieren?
• Open Access verstehen
• Impact messen
• Rechte & Lizenzen
• Peer Review reflektieren

📣 Join us for the 3rd talk in the Open Divide Lecture Series
🎤 “The Sustainability and Stability of Open and Closed Access Publishing”
with @Lisalibrarian@hcommons.social
🗓️ June 25, 2025 | 🕔 5:00 PM CEST
https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/435
#OpenAccess #ScholComm #OpenDivide #OA

We are excited to announce the second lecture of the Open Divide Lecture Series 2025/2026. It will take place on May 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CEST).

We look forward to the lecture:
🎤 “Open Science and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights”
by Thomas Parisot and Yann Mahé.

https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/414

💶 Spending on #OpenAccess in Germany's universities has risen from €6.2M (2018) to over €100M (2024) – a 1500%+ increase.
🔐 Closed Access remains stable and still dominates budgets.
🔗 https://pulse49.com/2025/05/23/library-spending-in-transition-open-access-surges-closed-access-remains-steady/

#OA #Germany #ScholComm

A snapshot of Open Access uptake across domains in 2024 – based on OpenAlex data. Life and Health Sciences lead with the highest OA shares, while Social Sciences stand out with the highest proportion of hybrid and bronze OA. More insights here:
🔗 https://pulse49.com/2025/05/20/snapshot-2024-open-access-by-academic-discipline/
#OpenAccess #ScholComm

🔍 #OpenAccess #OA 2015–2024: A 10-Year Review
OA peaked at 59% in 2023, then dropped to 47% in 2024.
📌 Gold OA dominates (45% of OA output)
📌 Hybrid OA rising via transformative deals
📌 Bronze & Green OA declining
📌 Diamond OA stable
📊 Full post: https://pulse49.com/2025/05/15/open-access-trends-in-scholarly-publishing-2015-2024/

🔒 #OpenScience Backlash: U.S. Limits Data Access
New rules restrict foreign researchers—especially from China—from accessing databases. Meanwhile, Nature reports China has overtaken the U.S. in cancer research output.
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih-bans-researchers-china-russia-and-other-countries-multiple-databases
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01154-4

Not to criticize, just to document the development: Between December 2023 and February 2024, the fee for Fast Track Review at the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) increased from 450 to 950 USD. #peerreview #scholcomm

https://web.archive.org/web/20231217030147/https://support.jmir.org/hc/en-us/articles/115001310127-How-to-fast-track-expedite-a-paper-and-what-are-the-benefits-

https://web.archive.org/web/20240204111020/https://support.jmir.org/hc/en-us/articles/115001310127-How-to-fast-track-expedite-a-paper-and-what-are-the-benefits

🎙️ Kicking off the Open Divide Lecture Series 2025/26:

📅 April 23, 5PM CEST

🗣️ Rebecca Bryant (OCLC): Libraries Supporting Open Research – International Perspectives

✨ Abstract: https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/369

🌍 Join us & register here: https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r21e4a4713e93f01d98a9e4bc873f14c4

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicLibraries #OpenDivide

After 3 exciting years, scidecode as a company comes to an end. Huge thanks to Laura Rothfritz & Pablo de Castro for the great collaboration! The spirit lives on in new, independent projects. Archive & farewell note: https://pulse49.com/2025/04/06/closing-the-chapter-on-scidecode-a-look-back-and-ahead/ #OpenScience #ScienceConsulting