Niels Stern
Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation - @oapenbooks.bsky.social - providing open infrastructure services for scholarly books. Not-for-profit. Not-for-sale. POSI adopter. Co-director of DOAB @doabooks.bsky.social
- At @oapenbooks.bsky.social we are struggling with bad AI robotic scraping behaviour. I am thankful to the organisers of #OxFOS26 for giving me the opportunity to share our concerns at their event on 2nd March.
- Very thankful to Abrizah Abdullah and Kruti Trivedi for helping me making this session at the #CharlestonAsia conference on #openaccess books in Asia so insightful. I see much potential for @doabooks.bsky.social supporting South East Asia open access book publishing initiatives.
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- Thrilled to share this blog post oapen.hypotheses.org/1733 introducing our new Head of Technology at @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social, Anna Wałek - a warm welcome, Anna.
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- Truly thankful to @barbarabudrich.bsky.social, Nicola Parkin (@tandfresearch.bsky.social), @rupertgatti.bsky.social and Jon Elwell (@ebsco.bsky.social) for making the @oapenbooks.bsky.social 15-year anniversary event at Frankfurter @buchmesse.de so festive and insightful. Congratulations to all 🥳
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- Reposted by Niels SternWe’re thrilled to unveil OAPEN’s refreshed visual identity – including a new logo – that better reflects who we’ve become, what we stand for, and where we’re headed. Read more about it in the announcement: oapen.org/article/intr...
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- @dannykay68.bsky.social sharing the #openaccess situation in Australia. It used to be better than it is today she shows. In this landscape, Danny promotes preprints among other things. #OASPA2025
- Excited to present the OPERAS Research Infrastructure Special Interest Group on #OpenAccess Books at #OASPA2025. If you want to join the community then have a look at operas-eu.org/special-inte...
- Wonderful to see among others two @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social board members - @charleswatkinson.bsky.social and Antia Wiersma - and @doabooks.bsky.social Scientific Committee member @c-bz.bsky.social on #oaspa2025 stage discussing WHY #openaccess matters and HOW to make it work
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- #OSFair2025 Rethinking Research Assessment @hldejonge.bsky.social shares how Open Science NL has provided funding for Dutch institutions to include open science in their career assessment policies. Currently, 25 institutions in the Netherlands are exploring this. We look forward to the results!
- Reposted by Niels SternFree upcoming webinar: 'Who Owns Our Knowledge? The Future of Equitable Open Access', Monday 20 October at 15:00 CEST. With our very own @nielsstern.bsky.social. Hosted by @igiglobal.bsky.social, eContent Pro International Press, and OAPA. For more information & to register: buff.ly/l55ScKT #OAWeek
- Zoé Ancion shares how the French national science funder @agencerecherche.bsky.social promotes full and immediate open access to publications and supports multilingualism and bibliodiversity at #OSFair2025 @cern.bsky.social
- Pierre Mounier sets the scene for discussing equitable publishing and the Open Research Europe platform initiated by @ec.europa.eu at #OSFair2025
- @bsaenen.bsky.social kicking off the first plenary panel at #OSFair2025 with important discussions on open science policies. Looking forward to the next couple of days at @cern.bsky.social with an exciting programme www.opensciencefair.eu/2025/programme
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- We are looking for a Head of Technology, responsible for the development and maintenance of the technical environments and other ICT-related tasks at OAPEN @oapenbooks.bsky.social and DOAB @doabooks.bsky.social Vacancy note: oapen.org/article/vaca...
- Our CTO, Ronald Snijder, has decided to take the next step in his career and will therefore be leaving OAPEN @oapenbooks.bsky.social end of this month. I have published a short farewell blog post: oapen.hypotheses.org/1543 Wishing you all the best in your new role, @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social
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- Next up at the #DIAMAS conf is the poster session. I will present how open infrastructures interoperate to support Diamond OA books. @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, @pkp.sfu.ca, @doabooks.bsky.social and @oapenbooks.bsky.social Get poster doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
- Part 1 of two articles on how we curate academic publishers for the Directory of Open Access Books based on our requirements doabooks.org/en/publisher... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/03/g...
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- Such a great pleasure to have you on the team, Graham!
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- The recent executive orders from the Trump Administration represent an unprecedented attack on American democracy by targeting the institutions that safeguard public knowledge, history, and civic participation. bit.ly/4jl5n9C via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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- Last year was a remarkable year for growth of OAPEN and DOAB as you can read in our joint 2024 Highlights report, www.oapen.org/article/oape... and doabooks.org/en/article/o...
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- Reposted by Niels SternFantastic off the cuff remarks from @rupertgatti.bsky.social talking about how, more important than supporting any one particular #OpenAccess initiative, is supporting the ecosystem of open publishing that many of us are invested in developing #UKSG2025 @copim.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social
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- @paulakennedy.bsky.social from uolpress.bsky.social explains how @openbookcollective.bsky.social has helped their #openaccess books programme grow at #UKSG2025
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- Next Monday and Tuesday already at #UKSG2025 together with Tahia Zaidi (UKRI), Ellen Breen (DCU), and Nienke Schaverbeke (TU Delft)
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- I look very much forward to be presenting at this panel session at #UKSG2025: " #OpenAccess for Books: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Policy Landscape" together with Tahia Zaidi (UKRI), Ellen Breen (Dublin City University), and Nienke van Schaverbeke (TU Delft). www.uksg.org/events/confe...
- Reposted by Niels Stern'Libraries play a pivotal role in this ecosystem through their investments, but also by leveraging the tools and services offered by OAPEN and DOAB to enhance their collections, support researchers, and engage with the broader OA community.' #OAbooks @nielsstern.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social
- New Article: Stern, N. (2025). #Open #Infrastructures Enabling an Equitable Transition to #OpenAccess #Books. 027.7, 12(1). doi.org/10.21428/1bf... @nielsstern.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social
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- Thankful and happy to see our great partnership with CERN come to fruition in this way. Powered by CERN’s Data Centre the future for our open infrastructures for scholarly books looks exciting and promising. Yeah!
- The sun was shining bright over Madrid as a new initiative to support #DiamondOpenAccess scholarly publications - the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) - was launched. Congratulations to all involved! diamasproject.eu/public-launc...
- For two years I have been contributing as Scientific Coordinator to the excellent EU-funded #PALOMERA project on policies for #openaccess #books. The project has now ended but its results will remain. In this policy brief lnkd.in/dh3r_FBz we've summarised the main outcomes and a path forward.
- Dr. Alwaleed Aklhaja, Qatar National Library: A world without open infrastructure is just the world of commercial solutions. We need to support open infrastructures! #DiamondOpenAccess #DOASummit2024 #GlobalSummit #InnovationInPublishing #CapeTown2024 #OpenAccess #DKIS
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- I feel privileged to contribute to this two-day workshop. An excellent warm-up to the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Cape Town. Wonderful with full focus on scholarly books and open access in Africa and internationally. openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-mon...
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