This report on open access to longform publications was also published today, providing a holistic and deep analysis of how green open access/self-archiving is currently positioned and working to support open access to such works in the United Kingdom.
I am really happy to have been able to contribute to this new report, which collects together a broad international perspective on the challenges lay ahead of making more longform publications (i.e. books and other works) openly available.
New article published today 🥳 What exactly do universities and funders reccomend or require when it comes to making academic books open access? That is what we zoomed in on in this study that has its origins in data collected during the EU-funded PALOMERA project. doi.org/10.1093/scip...
💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated
✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky
Tampereen yliopiston Tiedon valoa -tapahtuma on 23.-24.1. keskustakampuksen Päätalossa. Tapahtuma on laajennettu kaksipäiväiseksi ja siihen on vapaa pääsy. Ohjelmaa on kaikille tieteestä, tutkimuksesta ja kulttuurista kiinnostuneille! www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...
Today I have to honor to act as opponent the doctoral disstertation of Michele Gibney at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. If you want to follow the action there is an open Zoom-link here, with a start in 5 minutes: lnu.se/en/meet-linn.... Link to dissertation: doi.org/10.15626/LUD...
A comprehensive investigation of university published journals, - mapping and profiling journals globally (including data from Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and #DOAJ)
New article from Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thank you for sharing the paper! In relation to the immense collective footprint of university journals we know relatively little about them, so more research is needed so that they could best be understood, acknowledged, and supported.
"From mess to method: A case study about designing a workshop on research data discovery", doi.org/10.7557/11.8.... Read about how a network of library research support staff in Denmark are helping researchers learn how to search for published #researchdata.
#FAIR #datadiscovery #retrieval
My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
So glad to see this out! This was a big undertaking and I'm very happy with the end result. Thanks in particular to @judithfathallah.bsky.social for the work on this
And I can be the first to admit that the "reasonings" for open access can and should still be improved. More research should be consulted systematically, and the codes are not fully discretionary (i.e. there is conceptual overlap). But that is best left for a systematic review and dedicated study
In three months and some change the full peer-reviewed paper based on this preprint is now out in Journal of Documentation doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... 🎉. Results and analysis did not change in the revision process but the theoretical framing and interpretation is strengthened based on reviewer feedback.
Two post-doc positions in CNRS on international projects in Paris, for 17 & 24 months on #STS. The first one on #openscience monitoring, the second one on #opendata in research evaluation. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.
This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....
New article in Katina Magazine: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'
Intended as an intervention into the ongoing discussions & activity around #DiamondOA to bring books into focus, the authors want to foster further conversations on this topic & invite feedback.
Comment yours below 👇
A real treat! Mikael Laakso is doing a talk on digital preservation and #OA publications!! @mikaellaakso.bsky.social
🎤 “Long-Term Preservation of Open Access Publications: Facts, Current Practices, and Future Outlook” by Mikael Laakso
👉 Register here:
unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...
📢 New in UKSG Insights: A model to help publishers implement globally fair and transparent pricing |
Discover practical ideas to make pricing more equitable across regions.
👉 Read more: insights.uksg.org/articles/10....
#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing @lorraineestelle.bsky.social
Erinomainen nosto! Minä olen kovasti kateellinen tästä panostuksesta. Tieteen tekemistä pitäisi tutkia, toistaiseksi se on todella hankalaa koska pitää istua tiukasti joko esim. filosofiseen, bibliometriseen, tiedepoliitiiseen, tai eettiseen muottiin jotta rahoitusta ja julkaisuja saisi kasaan.
Happy to announce the soft launch of DoLS - the Directory of Learned Societies, an open, growing database of learned societies and their journals worldwide, facilitating visibility, networking, and community-building!
Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...
Hosting a #DiamondOA event?
Share it on the #EDCHForum!
It’s easy:
🗨️ Create a topic
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#OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicEvents
Smart use of LLM to classify the policy statements! Will definitely have a read through this.
Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
It is that time of the year again 🎉Walt Crafword's most recent comprehensive review of the composition of journals and articles by journals included in the DOAJ is out. APC-based article volumes keep consistently growing while no-fee/Diamond journals are largely stagnant in terms of growth.
Our latest book - "The Open Science Cookbook," edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee - is a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research. bit.ly/3ZnmRKA #openscience
Tuore Signum 2/2025 painottuu #avointiede teemoihin. Mukana @mikaellaakso.bsky.social haastattelu. Lisäksi aiheina mm. JYX #julkaisuarkisto, #Annif automaattisen asiasanoituksen osuvuus, #robotiikka, ja kirjastojen rooli #teknologiakehitys ja #TKI-investoinnit suuntaamisessa. journal.fi/signum
📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
As we write in the paper, press releases are a particular genre of content that need to be taken for what they are and are not compareable to e.g. 1-1 interviews. It was quite exciting to dig into this (for us) new type of research data in the context of scholarly publishing.Any feedback is welcome!
