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As of today, here’s what I see:

Gold Open Access 2025: 809 PDF downloads, one paperback.

Diamond Open Access 2024: 751 PDF downloads, one paperback.

Dataset: 119 downloads.

Previous year (Gold/Diamond 2024)

Gold Open Access 2024: 995 PDF downloads, one paperback.

Diamond OA 2024: 3,175 PDF downloads, one paperback.

Dataset: 343 downlo...

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When I posted this, I had just given up after an extremely frustrating set of attempts to replace the contents of some tables–copying a set of rows and columns in Calc, highlighting the same number of rows and columns in a Writer table, and pasting. What ...

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I won’t need to start working on Gold Open Access 2026 until November, but I was wondering whether it would be feasible to switch from MS Office 2019 (which is, after all, a tad out of date) to snazzy up-to-date free/open software LibreOffice 25.

Here’s my experience, and it’s not terribly meaningful because:

  • I’d be comparing a current LibreOffice to a six-yea...
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