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ALPSP @alpsp.bsky.social · Aug 29

🏆 The ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing recognises a product, service, technology, business model or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.

#BLOG: Spotlight on: Taylor & Francis Group - DataSeer SnapShot

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Award for Innovation in Publishing Finalists
Spotlight on: Taylor & Francis Group - DataSeer SnapShot
Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant, with the support of Tim Vines & Adrian Stanley

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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · Jun 12

💡 Struggling to find the right journal? Our new journal suggester tool takes the guesswork out of submissions. See how it works: http://spr.ly/63321NCVjU

Journal Suggester Tool - Tutorial

Publishing made simple! Follow these easy steps to use the Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester tool and find the perfect journal for your research. Start your journey to publication today! About us: Taylor & Francis Group partners with world-class authors, from leading scientists and researchers, to scholars and professionals operating at the top of their fields. Together, we publish in all areas of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine sectors. We are one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks, text books and reference works. For more author insights follow us at: http://spr.ly/63322NCVjg http://spr.ly/63323NCVj9 http://spr.ly/63324NCVji To browse our 2600+ journals visit: http://spr.ly/63325NCVjc And learn more about Informa at: http://spr.ly/63329NCVjW

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Beck Taylor-Grant @becktaylorgrant.bsky.social · May 30

Super proud of our recently published article in the International Journal of Digital Curation - it addresses a seemingly small gap but I think it could have a real impact on how publishers collaborate with other stakeholders to improve Open Science practices! #openscience ijdc.net/index.php/ij...

Making reproducibility a reality by 2035? Enabling publisher collaboration for enhanced data policy enforcement | International Journal of Digital Curation

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Dryad @datadryad.bsky.social · May 28

What's the most common reason Dryad Data Curators request revisions to submitted datasets? Insufficient README files.

In this training session Senior Curator Bryan Gee covers tips & best practices for creating a README that meets best practice standards #opendata #openaccess

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Make your data more usable: README Files with Dryad

A README file serves as a crucial component of data documentation, providing important context and instructions for understanding and utilizing the data. The...

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Rebecca Lawrence @rnls.bsky.social · May 14

Excited to see my piece live on 'The need for verification markers on published content' that summarises my @nisoinfo.bsky.social 2024 talk, that explores & proposes a need for standards on integrity labelling for all published research tinyurl.com/nt9ujk73
#integrity #preprints #trustmarkers

The need for verification markers on published content - Rebecca Lawrence, 2025

Ethics and integrity cases in submitted manuscripts is becoming an increasingly common problem, whilst retractions continue to grow at a rapid rate. These cases...

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Apr 10

Opinion: As UK universities desperately seek savings, open science advocates must press both their moral and selfish cases, say Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs
#AcademicSky

Financial crisis or not, there must be no shuttering of open science

As UK universities desperately seek savings, open science advocates must press both their moral and selfish cases, say Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs

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FAIRsharing @fairsharing.bsky.social · Mar 3

There's an update to our @tier2-project.eu #EditorialReferenceHandbook! We now have 13 "lucky" 🐈‍⬛ checks covering reproducibility of digital research objects in manuscript submissions. 🥳 Take a look at publishers.fairassist.org
@becktaylorgrant.bsky.social @mattcannontf.bsky.social

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Matt Cannon @mattcannontf.bsky.social · Mar 3

Are you aware of IOI (Invest in Open Infrastructure)? investinopen.org

Invest in Open Infrastructure

Helping you invest in the technology research relies on.

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Beck Taylor-Grant @becktaylorgrant.bsky.social · Feb 26

I'll be chairing this very cool panel discussion on the intersection of Open Research, trust and research integrity next week - all are welcome!
@mattcannontf.bsky.social, @allysonlister.bsky.social and @dangerwhale.bsky.social are our panellists!

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Event | Building and maintaining trust with open research

This webinar will show authors how they can increase the trustworthiness of their research, with a special focus on open research practices.

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FAIRsharing @fairsharing.bsky.social · Feb 12

🚀 #TIER2 Pilot 8 introduces “The Editorial Reference Handbook” to help editors and publishers promote responsible practices for research. It assists in operationalising a set of checks to help with #FAIR principles and support reproducibility.
🔗 Learn more: tier2-project.eu/news/tier2-p...

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Matt Cannon @mattcannontf.bsky.social · Dec 5

Go and listen to two of my amazing colleagues talk about data sharing in humanities and social sciences www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi... #openresearch #opendata #podcast

Data Sharing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Current Landscape and Pressures - Choice 360

Rebecca Taylor-Grant and Dr. Emily Farrell, both at Taylor & Francis, examine the current landscape for HSS data sharing.

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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · Nov 19

We currently have the "share to Bluesky" option available on all of our article pages on tandfonline.

Right now, you can find this in the full sharing pop up but more changes coming soon...

#Academicsky #HigherEd

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Nov 18

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:

docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Dec 4

📣 The #StateOfOpenData 2024 webinar is coming!

The Special Report from Springer Nature, @figshare.bsky.social & @digital-science.com is available now.

Hear from authors Graham Smith & Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org

🗓️ 23 January 2025
🕒 15:00 GMT 🕙 10:00 EST

🔗 Sign up: info.figshare.com/webinar/the-...

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Matt Cannon @mattcannontf.bsky.social · Dec 4

After lurking for a while, finally got around to seeing who has made the move over from the other place. Pleased to see so many faces! #moretocome