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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 news blog post: "Why Metadata Enrichment Matters for the Public Knowledge Project" by PKP Scientific Director and Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) Co-Organizer Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander

Learn how and why PKP is deeply involved in efforts, such as COMET, to improve the completeness and accuracy of metadata:

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/11/metadata

Public Knowledge Project · Why Metadata Enrichment Matters for the Public Knowledge ProjectLearn why PKP is deeply involved in the Collaborative Metadata initiative (COMET), to improve the completeness and accuracy of metadata.
#Metadata#ScholComm#ScholarlyPublishing
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Public Knowledge Project

📢 Don't forget to register for the Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) Community Meeting happening July 15th, 8 AM PDT!

Agenda

🎯 What is the COMET Model?
🎯 Overview of current pilot projects
🎯 Initial project findings
🎯 Discussion time
🎯 Opportunities for involvement

Register: datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regis

ZoomWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: COMET Community Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.The COMET Community Meeting includes updates from the COMET team, opportunities for feedback on the roadmap, demonstrations and presentation by COMET community members, and more.
#Metadata#ScholComm#ScholarlyPublishing
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Public Knowledge Project

📣 PKP's Annual Report is here!

Rooted in our values — Community Engagement, Educational Initiatives, Open Infrastructure, Research and Advocacy, as well as Sustainability — this year’s report highlights how these principles guide our work.

📄 Explore: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/16/annual-r

With deep gratitude to our entire team and community — thank you for building the future of #ScholarlyPublishing with us.

#OpenAccess#OpenInfrastructure#OpenJournalSystems
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Translate Science

Meet some Translate Science folks! (online, July 22, 23, 24)

Scholarships available through June 20th!

@lynnebowker @OliverCzulo and @JMMaok will be presenting Introduction to Translation for Nontranslators: Encounter the World of Translation at FSCI2025.

force11.org/fsci-2025/

This course is for anyone interested in multilingual open science who isn't a professional translator.

We hope to see you there! If your financial circumstances mean you need a scholarship to attend, don't hesitate to apply. A generous number are available and FORCE11's goal is for them to broaden participation in the event.

force11.orgFSCI 2025 – FORCE11
#OpenScience#translation#scholarlyPublishing
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Matt Hodgkinson

"This survey aims to gather perspectives on achieving truly equitable global open access as outlined in the OASPA ‘Next 50%’ project primer available via the Zenodo repository: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1546331.

Your responses will inform discussions about reassessing what "open" truly means and on creating a more inclusive knowledge ecosystem. This will support a more holistic transition to open access."

survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90846268

ZenodoProject primer - Setting the stage for a 'different conversation' about open accessThe Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) is launching a new project for 2025, bringing together publishing organisations with those who pay for, fund and invest in scholarly communication. This initiative, delivered in collaboration with Research Consulting, builds on OASPA's research and outputs of the past few years, following over 3,000 downloads of these recommendations on financial and workflow barriers. This project primer is intended to frame a range of current challenges and takes you through three aspects of openness that need to be combined to provide a truly equitable scholalry communication system. At the end of the document, we pose several questions that we would like readers to carefully consider prior to attending project workshops or providing feedback via our open survey (accepting responses till 11 July 2025). Our goal is to help stakeholders across the scholarly publishing community embrace a more inclusive vision of open access - one that distributes benefits and responsibilities fairly, based on collectively determined priorities.
#OpenAccess#ScholComm#ScholarlyPublishing
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Public Knowledge Project

We’re getting excited for the #pkpOslo2025 Sprint next week!

Programmers, journal managers, users, librarians, interface experts, and scholarly publishers from around the world are getting together to continue centering community in work on PKP software for #ScholarlyPublishing.

Thanks to the University of Oslo for hosting the event!

Stay tuned for updates. Learn more about the PKP Oslo Sprint: pkp.sfu.ca/oslo-sprint-2025/

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