Knowledge Unlatched

📚 Calling All Librarians: Help Shape KU’s Collections by joining our growing Selection Committee. If you’re interested in joining the KU Selection Committee, 📩 email us at info@knowledgeunlatched.org with the subject line "KU Selection Committee" #DiamondOA #KnowledgeUnlatched

We are inviting librarians everywhere to take part in KU's Content Survey 2025. It takes about three minutes to answer a few questions. Librarians' input is vital to ensuring that Open Access collections remain relevant and forward-thinking. #DiamondOA ow.ly/fQy750UJqWt

Final week to pledge for KU’s #OpenAccess initiatives! Many thanks to all the #libraries, institutions worldwide who have pledged for one or more of KU’s collections, partner offerings this year. The 2024 pledging round will end this Friday, December 13th ow.ly/9Iev50Unwkq

A big thank you to our KU Selection Committee 2024! We’d like to express our gratitude to the 200+ #librarians worldwide who gave their time, to curate our flagship collection, KU Select Books. For a second year, the collection was aligned with UN’s #SDGs ow.ly/pWiq50Umfqw

Great news, #libraries, if you haven't already done so, there’s still time to pledge your support for #OpenAccess this year! @KUnlatched has extended its pledging deadline to Friday, December 13, 2024. ow.ly/BkAl50UkVcJ

#OpenAccess represents an important sector of scholarly publishing not only because of the continued growth in scientific output, but also since it removes paywall barriers to academic content ow.ly/oP4I50UcN8r

Many thanks to all the libraries that have already pledged this year to help make KU Select SDG Books, KU Focus Collections, our partner initiatives available #OpenAccess. There’s still time to add your support, the deadline is December 6, 2024. knowledgeunlatched.org/pledging/ #OABooks

Long-term, collaborative, sustainable support for digital #OpenAccess infrastructures represents an important aspect of Open Science ow.ly/pbJx50Uae29

The author-facing fees that researchers face when publishing in #OpenAccess journals continue to be a significant barrier toward the removal of paywall barriers to scholarly output for both scientific communities and professional stakeholders worldwide ow.ly/qYNc50U9eo2

We are thrilled to have been at the Charleston Conference this year! We enjoyed the opportunity to attend sessions, discussions about AI, collaboration, scholarly communications. It was great meeting with so many librarians and colleagues. See you next year #OpenAccess #chsconf24

Whereas preprints represent a significant aspect of #OpenAccess publishing, especially for scholarly articles, these cannot necessarily supplant published versions, due to peer review procedures the latter entail ow.ly/gcgL50U77HZ

Publishing in #OpenAccess inherently contributes to scholarly integrity, since it introduces transparency into publication procedures ow.ly/s4nh50U6fpa

As sustainable development goals (#SDGs) are increasingly recognized as relevant to scholarly research, funding priorities, publishing activities across different disciplines, #OpenAccess models also need to accommodate the needs of Global South scholars ow.ly/inRe50U5eTa

Thank you to all of our current #Migration and Development Studies collection participants who helped us make 28 titles #openaccess! @KUnlatched  #OAWeek #OABooks berghahnbooks.com/open-access/mi…

As, on one hand, #OpenAccess platforms remove cost barriers to scholarly content, these also ought to comply with accessibility guidelines, on the other hand, to ensure the inclusivity of Open Science initiatives ow.ly/O7ss50U4aq3

Librarians, help support free access to important STEM content. Alongside KU Select SDG Books, Focus Collections, and various HSS-offerings this year, @KUnlatched also offers three different STEM book collections for libraries to support #OpenAccess. knowledgeunlatched.org/stem/

Transitioning to #OpenScience can not infrequently also require a change in publishing practices and reward structures on the level of both individual researchers and academic institutions respectively ow.ly/qg0F50U2o0Z

#OpenScience also comprizes the monitoring of its performance indicators, such as in terms of scholarly output in Open Access and the institution-level adoption of its practices ow.ly/9Bsm50U1tfr

Whereas transitions to #OpenAccess involve multiple stakeholders, such as publishers and libraries, these also comprise wider-scale Open Science-related aims for research data and code and associated, innovative business models ow.ly/ROZK50U0xB8

While #OpenScience has made significant progress in recent years, barriers to the implementation of its guidelines continues to exist, such as with regard to empirical data ow.ly/E6g750TZv0A