Open Access Tracking Project @oatp@fediscience.org@oatp

Crowdsourced alerts & news feeds about #openaccess. See bit.ly/o-a-t-p for info on how it works & how to help. Founded & managed by @petersuber. ISSN 2578-7020.

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Open Source: The connective tissue of Open Science - Software Heritage softwareheritage.org/2026/08…

Open Source: The connective tissue of Open Science

Research software shouldn't expire when a grant ends. Sayeed Choudhury on how Carnegie Mellon’s OSPO is building the 'connective tissue' to turn lab code into lasting community products.

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Open source software tools and services for the cultural and research data fields ift.tt/nDKwscH
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UBC launches the first free open-access Nepali textbook - Faculty of Arts ift.tt/qOx0EQn

UBC launches the first free open-access Nepali textbook - Faculty of Arts

Arts scholars, students, and staff have developed Introduction to the Nepali Language, the first free open-access textbook of its kind, expanding access to Nepali language learning in BC and around...

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Clarivate Enhances SkyRiver to Help Libraries Share, Reuse and Create Trusted Metadata ift.tt/L4HKmVR

Clarivate Enhances SkyRiver to Help Libraries Share, Reuse and Create Trusted Metadata

Combining community metadata sharing, institutional choice and AI-powered record creation

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Investing $4.9 million of our surplus in rebuilding the Crossref system - Crossref ift.tt/K92lqhX

Investing $4.9 million of our surplus in rebuilding the Crossref system - Crossref

The infrastructure that registers and distributes Crossref metadata has been running and growing for more than two decades. It now does considerably more than it was built to do, and it shows: two...

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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information - ift.tt/9P5YVQn

Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

2026 Conference of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information Call for Proposals The Call for Proposals closed on 1 September 2026. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. …

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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir ift.tt/XZQwA8E

ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir

LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.

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Diamond Open Access. Knowledge as a common good. | Drupal ift.tt/gUi9jCy
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James Bond, not Bond James: why scientific publishing must respect name order | Nature ift.tt/zbtx5BK

James Bond, not Bond James: why scientific publishing must respect name order

Nature - Databases and submission systems are often inflexible. Can’t publishers do more on author names?

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AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors | Nature ift.tt/8VCodz5

AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors

Nature - The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.

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This AI tool claims to pick the top 1% of preprints. Should researchers trust it? | Nature ift.tt/ZlcwMrU

This AI tool claims to pick the top 1% of preprints. Should researchers trust it?

Nature - QED Science says that its metrics reduce bias by assessing papers solely on the basis of their originality and validity.

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Change comes for science publishing paradigms | Science ift.tt/N3sVdIZ

Change comes for science publishing paradigms

A pair of insiders cast recent efforts to increase access to research as problems, not progress

science.org
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TOP 2025: An update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines - PhilPapers ift.tt/ShsfvTC

Brian A. Nosek, Elaine Toomey, Melissa L. Rethlefsen, Timothy H. Parker, Carole J. Lee, Iain...

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VACANCY: Operations Manager 2026 – DOAJ Blog ift.tt/IkEcNMZ
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OMB grant regulation paused by Congress - STM Association ift.tt/5NrEXCl

OMB grant regulation paused by Congress - STM Association

On August 2, The US Senate released the text of a Continuing Resolution, a significant step to prevent implementation of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) proposed revisions to federal...

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arXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and founding Board of Directors ift.tt/U0YTmWV

arXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and Board of Directors

We have exciting news to share today: the appointment of Dr. Penelope Lewis as arXiv’s inaugural Chief Executive Officer and the establishment of our…

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Choosing What’s Next: Introducing the National Open Education Priorities Process — Open Education Association ift.tt/kNzGiJ0

Choosing What’s Next: Introducing the National Open Education Priorities Process — Open Education...

What should open education take on next? Introducing a process to choose national priorities.

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NOT-OD-26-100: Implementation Update: NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan Requirements ift.tt/1Z7XsDM
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USRN September Community Call - Shared Repository Services ift.tt/eOKoP1m

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: USRN September Community Call - Shared Repository...

Topic: Shared Repository Services Repositories are key institutional tools that ensure access to and reuse of valuable research outputs. To better support those goals, some institutions have develo...

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[2607.00546v1] Open Science in Astrophysics: Citation Benefits of Open Code, Open Data, and Open Access ift.tt/geGB1YZ

Open Science in Astrophysics: Citation Benefits of Open Code, Open...

We analyze the relationship between open-accessibility in data, code, and paper text in astrophysics using a sample of 53,194 peer reviewed papers published between January 2021 and April 2025,...

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