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Public Knowledge Project

📚 New Research Alert: Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers

By Simon van Bellen (Senior Research Advisor, Érudit), Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander (Scientific Director, PKP), and Vincent Larivière (Scientific Director, Érudit)

📖 Full article: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

journals.plos.orgScholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishersGlobal scholarly publishing has been dominated by a small number of publishers for several decades. This paper revisits the data on corporate control of scholarly publishing by analyzing the relative shares of scholarly journals and articles published by the major publishers and the “long tail” of smaller, independent publishers, using Dimensions and Web of Science (WoS). The reduction of expenses for printing and distribution and the availability of open-source journal management tools may have contributed to the emergence of small publishers, while recently developed inclusive databases may allow for the study of these. Dimensions’ inclusive indexing revealed the number of scholarly journals and articles published by smaller publishers has been growing rapidly, especially since the onset of large-scale online publishing around 2000, resulting in a higher share of articles from smaller publishers. In parallel, WoS shows increasing concentration within a few corporate publishers. For the 1980–2021 period, we retrieved 32% more articles from Dimensions compared to the more selective WoS. Dimensions’ data showed the expansion of small publishers was most pronounced in the Social Sciences and the Arts and Humanities, but a similar trend is observed in the Natural Sciences and Engineering, and the Health Sciences. A major geographical divergence is also revealed, with English-speaking countries and/or those located in northwestern Europe relying heavily on major publishers for the dissemination of their research, while the rest of the world being relatively independent of the oligopoly. Finally, independent journals publish more often in open access in general, and in Diamond open access in particular. We conclude that enhanced indexing and visibility of recently created, independent journals may favour their growth and stimulate global scholarly bibliodiversity.
#ScholComm#OpenAccess#DiamondOA
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Public Knowledge Project

▶️ New video out! OJS 3.5 Redesigned Submission Navigation and Dashboard

In 8 minutes learn about:

✨ Submission Dashboard Overview
✨ Navigation Menus and Views
✨ User Specific Views
✨ Filters
✨ Incomplete Submissions
✨ Submission Table
✨ Submission Window
✨ Submission Language
✨ Additional Menu
✨ Suggested Reviewers
✨ Log Reviewer Responses
✨ Contributor Preview
✨ JATS XML

Check it out on YouTube: youtu.be/c9d28VxO7VM

youtu.be- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
#OpenJournalSystems#OpenInfrastructure#ScholComm
OSTrails

As #LIBER2025 continues, we were glad to present an #OSTrails poster (#22), exploring how the Plan – Track – Assess framework helps libraries strengthen interoperability & sustainable research data management.

🗣️ Pedro Príncipe (UMinho):
“Libraries are key partners in building open infrastructures & supporting responsible data practices.”

Stay tuned!

#OpenScience#FAIRdata#DMPs
Public Knowledge Project

🚨 PKP Development Alert – Article Production 🚨

New PKP News Blog post:
“Article production in PKP Software: Directions and plans”

🔍 Inside

🌱 Updates for 3.5 & 3.6
🌱 Benefits for cost, accessibility, models
🌱 Key insights for devs, editors & managers

💡 Why it matters

🌱 Easier contributions
🌱 Smoother publishing
🌱 Community-driven

🔗 Access: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/30/producti

Public Knowledge Project · Article Production in PKP Software: Directions and Plans - Public Knowledge ProjectThis post highlights production changes and plans for PKP software versions 3.5 and 3.6 that will lower the cost of publishing, increase accessibility, and support new publishing models.
#OpenJournalSystems#OJS#OpenMonographPress
Public Knowledge Project

📢 Join PKP Open Monograph Press (OMP) Community Calls!

Following completion of a review of OMP, PKP is running a series of community calls from May through to September 2025 with OMP Coordinator Zoe Wake Hyde @zwhnz

Join us to hear updates, contribute to feature planning and funding priorities, and ensure the platform continues to meet your needs.

Sign up for OMP Community Calls: airtable.com/appDTVyaIiYboTccf

#OpenMonographPress#OpenAccess#OpenInfrastructure
Public Knowledge Project

🎥 Now Available: PKP 2025 Annual General Meeting Recording and resources!

* Advisory Committee
* PKP as research-driven
* Impact in Indonesia
* #OpenMonographPress (OMP)
* #OpenJournalSystems (OJS)
* #OpenResearchEurope (ORE)
* Annual Report and more

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/20/pkp-2025

We're grateful for your continued support and collaboration!

#OpenInfrastructure is the backbone of #OpenAccess, #OpenResearch, #OpenScience, and #OpenKnowledge for the global public good. Let’s keep building together.

Public Knowledge Project · PKP AGM Recap and Recording now Available - Public Knowledge ProjectThis post features the 2025 PKP AGM recap and recording from June 17th, with loads of extra resources.
Invest in Open Infrastructure

🎧 So grateful to the @chaoss team for inviting our Product Lead Chrys Wu to discuss our latest research on CHAOSScast Episode 112!

Key finding: while formal frameworks aren't widely familiar, there's real hunger for clearer signals about project governance, user base, etc in #OpenInfrastructure

People want transparency & better communication to make values-aligned decisions - which is exactly what many projects need help with too 🤝

Listen to the episode today!

investinopen.org/blog/building

Invest in Open Infrastructure · Building bridges: How trust and community health frameworks can strengthen open infrastructure decision-makingNew research from IOI reveals that while trust remains the cornerstone of open infrastructure decisions, there's significant opportunity to amplify impact by increasing awareness and adoption of proven community health frameworks like CHAOSS metrics and POSI among practitioners and funders.
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Steffi Genderjahn

RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) is a global system to uniquely identify research projects and serves as a registry

In May 2025, @Lyrasis, GO #FAIR Foundation US and @ardc_au hosted a first call for participation in the US RAiD pilot. 22 organizations represented different stakeholder perspectives and explored the benefits of using RAiD.

Submission of initial ideas for participation in the RAiD pilot is still possible

ℹ️ lyrasisnow.org/us-raid-pilot-i

#OpenScience#OpenInfrastructure#PIDs
DataCite

We’re proud to honor John Chodacki with DataCite’s Distinguished Service Award! 🎉
His visionary leadership as the President of the DataCite Executive Board from 2018–2025 transformed our community & advanced open research worldwide.
Thank you, John! 👏
Read more on our blog: doi.org/10.5438/z1wx-dj46
Please boost to celebrate
@chodacki !🚀 👏

#OpenScience
#LeadershipInResearch
#PersistentIdentifiers
#OpenInfrastructure
#ResearchMetadata
#OpenResearch
#ScholarlyCommunication

ZB MED

Deutschlands Plan für ein offenes und unabhängiges PubMed-Sicherheitsnetz: In einem Gastbeitrag in unserem Blog beschreibt @hildabast, wie ZB MED mit #OLSPub eine resiliente Infrastruktur für biomed. Literatur aufbaut: blog.zbmed.de/deutschlands-pla

Im engl. Original erschienen bei Absolutely Maybe – PLOS Blogs ogy.de/agno
Dankeschön an Hilda Bastian, dass wir die deutsche Übersetzung veröffentlichen dürfen!

ZB MED-Blog · Deutschlands Plan für ein offenes und unabhängiges PubMed-SicherheitsnetzPubMed ist eine wichtige Literaturdatenbank. Könnte PubMed häufiger und für längere Zeit ausfallen? ZB MED stellt sich dieser Herausforderung.
#OpenScience#PubMed#OpenInfrastructure
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petersuber

Invest in Open Infrastructure (#IOI, @investinopen) makes an important point in its new report:
investinopen.org/state-of-open

"Imagine just a few of the major open infrastructures serving scholarship today: #arXiv, #PubMed, #DSpace, #OpenJournalSystems, or perhaps #CreativeCommons…Consider how many of these have been created on a cycle of grants and sustained on a combination of donations, membership fees, service hosting, and/or specialized development…Most scholars, teachers, and researchers…accept them as a given and depend on them…But these infrastructures are not, on the whole, sustainable businesses with robust fiscal models and diversified revenues. Many do not turn profits; most operate at steady losses that are absorbed by philanthropic and government funders and a variety of research institutions including labs, universities, and colleges. They operate on systems rife with technical debt, and they depend upon volunteer labour to cover much of their human costs from governance to editorial review to code development."

Invest in Open Infrastructure · ForewordThe open tools and systems we rely upon need our immediate attention and action. We continue to reaffirm our commitment to a vision where every place of higher learning has access to the tools and infrastructure neccesary to access and participate in research. What a time to be writing a
#OpenInfrastructure#ScholComm
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