Check out this blog post that highlights the work of the University Library's Open Education and Teaching Librarian, Khrisma McMurray, who organized this year's Open Education Week on our campus 
#OpenAccess alert, and in one of my fields of independent study
A Spatial Theory of the Camp
Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State
Counter-geographies of the Refugee Balkan Route series
https://www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/book/9781800887695/9781800887695.xml
As notified by my list from https://progressivegeographies.com/2025/03/31/richard-carter-white-and-claudio-minca-a-spatial-theory-of-the-camp-geopolitics-biopolitics-and-the-immunitarian-state-edward-elgar-february-2025-open-access/
"For scientists, imagining a world without arXiv is like the rest of us imagining one without public libraries or GPS. But a look at its inner workings reveals that it isn’t a frictionless utopia of open-access knowledge. Over the years, arXiv’s permanence has been threatened by everything from bureaucratic strife to outdated code to even, once, a spy scandal. In the words of Ginsparg, who usually redirects interview requests to an FAQ document—on arXiv, no less—and tried to talk me out of visiting him in person, arXiv is “a child I sent off to college but who keeps coming back to camp out in my living room, behaving badly.”
Ginsparg and I met over the course of several days last spring in Ithaca, New York, home of Cornell University. I’ll admit, I was apprehensive ahead of our time together. Geoffrey West, a former supervisor of Ginsparg’s at Los Alamos National Laboratory, once described him as “quite a character” who is “infamous in the community” for being “quite difficult.” He also said he was “extremely funny” and a “great guy.” In our early email exchanges, Ginsparg told me, upfront, that stories about arXiv never impress him: “So many articles, so few insights,” he wrote."
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/
On improving the sustainability of peer review @PLOSBiology
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003127
"The possibility that #PubMed could become a casualty of funding cuts or policy shifts serves as a stark reminder of the importance of preserving #openaccess to scientific knowledge. Just how much damage might result to world health?" #DEI (Tim Hardman, same ref.)
Neuer Sammelband in #IDSopen, unserer Online-Only-Reihe: Meier-Vieracker, Simon / Bonacchi, Silvia / Acke, Hanna / Dang-Anh, Mark / Warnke, Ingo H. (Hg.) (2025): Discourses in/of Disruption. Diskurs – interdisziplinär 12 (=IDSopen 9). Mannheim: IDS-Verlag. #OpenAccess
Für einen Einblick ins Inhaltsverzeichnis nach links wischen!
Frei zugänglich unter: https://idsopen.de/issue/view/11
New paper in Scientific Reports using @gbif mediated data:
Prediction of the spatial distribution of vine weevil under climate change using multiple variable selection methods
#OpenAccess: 
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!!! From "Big Deals" to #OpenScience !!!
The Université de Lorraine cancelled Springer (2017) & Wiley (2023) – and reinvests the savings in Open Science.
€500,000 is spent annually on infrastructures, support services and scholar-led Diamond OA – guided by a broad, representative committee.
Hear more in this #podcast with @fresseng and https://mastodon.social/@jflutz
#scholarled #DiamondOA #UniLorraine #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #scholcomm
Die #Informatik ist eine wahre Gestaltenwandlerin. Man kann sie mit oder ohne Bindestrich studieren, sie als Technik- oder Sozialwissenschaft verstehen. In der neuen Ausgabe unseres Magazins sprechen zwei Professorinnen darüber, wie „richtige“ Informatik heute überhaupt aussieht.
Außerdem im Magazin: Podcasts, Petrinetze, die Lage des akademischen Mittelbaus und das Potenzial von #KI in der Recyclinganlage.
Alle Artikel wie immer #openaccess: https://inf.gi.de/
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
How to escape atypical regions in the symmetric binary perceptron: A journey through connected-solutions states
Damien Barbier
SciPost Phys. 18, 115 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.3.115
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
SymTFT for (3+1)d gapless SPTs and obstructions to confinement
Andrea Antinucci, Christian Copetti, Sakura Schäfer-Nameki
SciPost Phys. 18, 114 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.3.114
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Renormalisation group effects in SMEFT for di-Higgs production
Gudrun Heinrich, Jannis Lang
SciPost Phys. 18, 113 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.3.113
We're delighted to see Open Journals Collective soft launch their new website today: www.openjournalscollective.org
There is a blog post with more information https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/03/31/academic-libraries-cannot-afford-to-carry-on-with-transformative-agreements/
#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Die neu-aramäischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin" von Mark Lidzbarski
[Weimar: Felber, 1896]
New paper in Frontiers in Public Health using @gbif mediated data:
Projecting the potential distribution of Rickettsia japonica in China and Asian adjacent regions under climate change using the Maxent model 
#OpenAccess: ️
"To Complete the #OpenAccess #Transition, First Ask the Right Questions", says Malavika Legge from the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA): https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/open-access-transition-right-questions
New paper in Proceedings of the 16th International Scientific and Practical Conference using @gbif mediated data:
River networks as ecological hotspots and corridors for invasive and aquaculture species: long-term bioclimatic modeling in Latvia 
#OpenAccess: ️
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Volodymyr-Tytar/publication/389554936
New #openaccess release!
'Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature', edited by Annika Pohl Harrisson & Michael Eilenberg, explores the role of fencing as a mechanism of control, exclusion, and power in the name of #biosecurity. The volume brings together scholars from different regions to investigate the ways in which biosecurity #fencing is deployed across different contexts in #Europe and #NorthAmerica.
Read or download the book via: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-30
More articles on #OpenAccess on #books #libraries
Doshi, Ameet. 2025. ‘An Evidence-Based Inquiry into the Public Use of Open Access Research’. https://www.ala.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/AnEvidence-BasedInquiryintothePublicUseofOAResearch.pdf
Legge, Malavika. 2025. ‘To Complete the Open Access Transition, First Ask the Right Questions’. doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-032725-1.
Watkinson, Charles, and Kate McCready. 2025. ‘“Look to the Champions of Freedom for All” How Libraries Can Advance Democracy Through Opening Access’. American Library Association. https://doi.org/10.7302/25307
