PEEER: Publishing for an Ethical and Equitable Environment in Research

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  • From tools to projects promoting Open Access in the publishing environment

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    Multiple initiatives are now building tools for exploring and standards for identifying Open Access publishing internationally. Here are a few examples: Open Science Indicators, developed by PLOS, provide an interactive framework to explore and measure baseline open science practices, from article and preprint publication to the sharing of data, code, and protocols across the scientific literature.…

  • The Stockholm Declaration: a Call to Reform Academic Publishing

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    Science depends on honesty, but increasing career pressure is driving the rise of paywalls, predatory journals, and fake or heavily manipulated AI-generated papers from paper mills, all of which undermine academic freedom and integrity. The Stockholm Declaration (see Sciii – Science & Innovation Integrity and Sabel & Larhammar, 2025) is a call to action —…

  • Advancing diamond OA

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    Stanford University Press (SUP) — which has a long and storied history in book publishing — has branched out into journal publishing in association with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The initiative was developed in consultation with Standford Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communications in response to the mounting burdens on the research community imposed by…

  • Rising editorial resignations underscore disputes over academic independence

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    Mass resignations of managing editors and entire editorial boards from scholarly journals aren’t new, but the frequency has picked up in recent years. Since 2023, editors of over 25 journals have resigned in protest over disputes with their publishing companies. One of the most recent examples is Mathematical Logic Quarterly, a Wiley journal, where editors…

  • Author-pays model and growing inequities in global science

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    Scientific publishing, in a form similar to what we know today, has existed for hundreds of years. However, in recent times, the escalating Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Open Access (OA) publications have introduced unprecedented inequities into the scientific publishing ecosystem, challenging affordable and equitable access to research knowledge. Here, we compile three recent perspectives…