PEEER: Publishing for an Ethical and Equitable Environment in Research

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  • 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…

  • Publishing is becoming untenable: Can Community-led Open Access provide a solution?

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    A cross-disciplinary group of library staff, researchers, and academic administrative faculty, from early career to full professors and senior professionals, gathered at Universität Zürich (UZH), Switzerland, on 20th February, 2025, to discuss challenges and opportunities in scientific publishing. Bringing their diverse perspectives, and centered on emerging topics in open science, a panel and audience were…