Dear colleagues,

The Call for Proposals is now open for the Researcher to Reader Conference
2027, taking place in London on 23–24 February 2027.

R2R is a distinctive conference in the scholarly calendar. It places
particular emphasis on practice rather than rhetoric, analysis rather than
advocacy, and critical thinking rather than fashionable slogans. The
conference invites honest feedback, constructive disagreement, and serious
discussion across the full scholarly communications ecosystem. 

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You are invited to our next webinar exploring library perspectives on
supporting non-author-fee models for open access (OA).

Many questions from our recent Wayfinders #7 webinar about libraries as
collective actors
<https://www.oaspa.org/events/collective-actors-libraries-supporting-open-access-without-author-charges-wayfinders-7/>
remained
unanswered. OASPA is therefore pleased to announce this follow-on webinar,
which will continue to unpack further library perspectives on supporting
non-author-fee models for open access (OA). 

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* Apologies for cross posting *

Dear LIBLICENSE Members,

I’d like to share a new white paper with you, called Open for impact: China’s gold open access boosting global innovation and supporting the Global South, now available in both English and Mandarin.

Some of the key findings

* Gold OA delivers a clear impact advantage, especially for articles published in Springer Nature hybrid journals. Gold OA amplifies China’s priority research disciplines, and seems to be strengthening domestic journals through a higher citation rate.
* China’s OA articles receive almost twice as many citations from the Global South, and more than 

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