Finland Now Has a National Roadmap for Open Science and Research Funding avointiede.fi/en/news/finl...

How many commodities can you make from one academic article?

The EDUC manual, Training the Algorithm, referred to in this post is excellent

Music indies sound the alarm bells!! So called "attribution technology" will be nothing like the world of streaming or record sales where a successful artist can track their popularity. It will be a murky tech-metricocracy that will benefit those with the most compute.

www.ft.com/content/1a1a...

I'm giving a talk on "After Patent Republic?"
on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online,
in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities.

It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series.

Everyone welcome.

Abstract and registration:

“when the rhetoric stops short of articulating how and what is different about what we are seeing with the aid of computer vision and why it matters, then all we have are slogans in support of computer vision itself.”

Todays best echidna… it’s a small juvenile that was scuttling about on the side of the road.

“Critics say automatic subscriptions to online course materials are a commercial cash grab that limits students’ choices”. Fun fact: In Australia students who can’t afford to rent, sometimes can’t use the library e-book in exams due to licence restrictions.
universityaffairs.ca/features/dig...

I mean, that quote seems to indicate that Clarivate has no agency in the embedding. These tools are being actively added to products by without the option of turning them off. Here's a thought. Maybe get the products right before releasing them like an untested virus into the scholarly environment?

REFERENCE to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) by @oapenbooks.bsky.social Niels Stern at #OASPA2025 open book panel - using as a mechanism for structuring the panel discussion around Introductions, Governance, Impact & Quality and Sustainability openscholarlyinfrastructure.org

MISERABLE GHOSTS - bloody university rankings follow everything around like a bad smell

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UPDATED: Retracted guidelines from COPE now updated to include what to do with AI issues publicationethics.org/guidance/gui...

STATEMENT: Time to stop the undermining of library rights: IFLA statement on contract override www.ifla.org/news/time-to...
The Statement ... calls on governments to protect limitations and exceptions ... & look at how to ensure libraries benefit from effective protections against unfair contracts

In our last editorial we imagined how bad academic publishing might get, and hopefully how it might come out better www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My publisher let me know and you know what? Hell yeah.

What is becoming more common is T&Cs shifting liability downstream. Upstream parties may have litigation insurance. End users never do. Eg. Composer is party responsible

“An ad blocker installed in a browser, Springer maintained, infringed on its copyright by modifying that Web page program without permission”.
Hmm-modifying a copyright work needs permission? Let’s turn that around, when Springer produce AI generated versions of academic work.

'Wiley executed a “landmark" $20 million AI licensing project with a large tech company that included content from other publishers and also struck a “strategic partnership with Anthropic to accelerate AI integration across scholarly research."'

Afraid this will only encourage them further.

"As the NIH weighs these options, it remains debatable whether capping APCs is the most effective way to rein in unreasonable publishing fees or if such caps risk acting as a band-aid on symptoms rather than curing the underlying disease of profit-making that is plaguing scholarly publishing."

Case in point irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)