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The long wait has finally come to an end. The Commission has finally published its draft guidelines for the classification of high-risk artificial intelligence systems under the EU AI Act. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/dra…

THIS WEEK IN WARSAW: KR21 @ OPERAS 2026 & SCIROS CONFERENCE Proud conference partner & two panels ahead: ➤ 20 May: open science, research security & digital sovereignty ➤ 21 May: KR21 drives the dawning of a new ERA panel (#ERAact) 🔗 Livestream: operas-eu.org/news-and-event…

SPARC Europe, together with ALLEA, EIFL, IFLA, @LIBEReurope, and OPERAS, is calling on EU policymakers to remove persistent barriers and accelerate the transition to Open Science across Europe. Read our joint statement 👉️ doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #OpenScience #OpenAccess

Open access isn’t “just” about APCs. Arts & humanities scholars weigh reputational risk, equity, time, image rights, and ethics when considering OA—often sidelining it despite shared values. Prestige + tenure still win. OA reform must go deeper. Access: bit.ly/crl-873-2

How can Equitable Access to Heritage Help Solve Global Challenges? An Exploratory Dialogue - Creative Commons ift.tt/f3ZyhiB

Morepress platform: Advancing Open Access Publishing at the University of Zadar – Open Access Books Network ift.tt/dhksf8n

International partners launch OA Forward to strengthen Open Access negotiations and advance open scholarly communication – OA2020 ift.tt/FP0LQTY

📣 Call for expression of interest to shape a European alliance for open education to embed openness in higher education. Read the report zenodo.org/records/188620… 🚀Want to be one of the initiators helping shape the Alliance? See how to join👇 Thread

Open submissions for PUBMET2026! Theme: Communities in Open Scholarly Communication: Governance, Responsibility, and Shared Infrastructures 📍 University of Zadar, Zadar 📅 9–11 Sept 2026 More info: pubmet.hr

Open Access als Arena der Aushandlung ethnologischer Forschungsethik | kommunikation@gesellschaft ift.tt/cQ4r31I

New Book The Open Scholarship Primer: A Guide to Open Access, Open Research & Open Education (via @UBC) pressbooks.bccampus.ca/openscholarshi… #openscholarship #oa #scholcomm #openresearch #openeducation

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Launches New Premium #Metadata Services (via @DOAJplus) blog.doaj.org/2026/03/03/doa…

Structural drivers and barriers that challenge small academic publishers in the transition to Open Access: zenodo.org/records/179504…

IS THE EU'S NEW RESEARCH LAW DOING TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE? The upcoming #ERAact is a huge deal for #OpenScience, but more laws aren't always the only possible answer to get research flowing freely across Europe. 🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-story/the… #5thFreedom #Science4EU #ScienceBusiness

📄 New paper in European Science Editing : Text recycling and dissertation overlap in the era of open access doi.org/10.3897/ese.20… #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #ResearchIntegrity

Editors suspect that reviewers are using artificial intelligence | COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics publicationethics.org/guidance/case/…

How Open Is “Open” Over Time? (New Analysis From @DeltaThink) deltathink.com/how-open-is-op… #scholcomm #oa #publishing #libraries

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras · Open science and commoning beyond licensing: Deteriorating digital commons in the absence of collective governance ift.tt/rNB1TS6

MOOC "The EU AI Act in the Context of Higher Education: Fundamentals for Teaching, Research and Administration" imoox.at/course/AI-ACT?… @imooxat @idunivienna