Signs of grassroot activities

<p><strong><em>Signs of grassroot activities</em></strong><em> with respect to direct publishing, peer review services, and diamond journal initiatives at Dutch universities; results of a mini tour of university web sites and preprint statistics</em>.</p> <p>For <strong>direct publishing</strong>, a.k.a. preprint publishing, there seemed to be no readily available statistics on the internet. As <a href="https://www.dimensions.ai/">Dimensions</a> includes preprints, CWTS colleague Ludo Waltman could compile statistics on journal articles that were published as preprints first. The result is presented on page 2.</p> <p>For <strong>peer review services</strong> I consulted the web site of <a href="https://peercommunityin.org/">Peer Community In</a>, currently the most robust service in this domain with 1900 reviewers, covering 16 disciplines. I selected the reviewers from the Netherlands and made a breakdown by the Dutch universities. The result is presented on pages 3 and 4.</p> <p>For Dutch initiatives in <strong>diamond journals</strong> I consulted <a href="https://openjournals.nl/">Openjournals.nl</a> and generated the list shown on page 5.</p>