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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 25

Significant differences between European countries in the higher education institution's engagement with #CoARA, #HRS4R @dorassessment.bsky.social. This and other findings in my presentation at the CoARA General Assembly 23 June on CoARA Uptake across European HEIs: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 30

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/...

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 25

Significant differences between European countries in the higher education institution's engagement with #CoARA, #HRS4R @dorassessment.bsky.social. This and other findings in my presentation at the CoARA General Assembly 23 June on CoARA Uptake across European HEIs: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Mark Huskisson @markhusk.bsky.social · Jun 11

This interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...

Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

OSF

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

OSF

Reclaiming academic ownership of the scholarly communication system

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · Jun 7

Glad to see this report about 'reclaiming academic ownership of scholarly communication system'.

I like presentation of diamond OA and publish-review-curate (PRC) as complementary approaches. Important to note that PRC is not only about reclaiming ownership but also about various other issues.

European University Association (EUA) @eua.eu · Jun 5

📖 What are the main factors shaping the current academic publishing system?
🚧 What key challenges does the academic community face?
🔍 Are there opportunities for universities to reshape the future of #ScholarlyCommunication?
🔗 New EUA briefing buff.ly/0C0Wqfn

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Reclaiming academic ownership of the scholarly communication system

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European University Association (EUA) @eua.eu · Jun 5

📖 What are the main factors shaping the current academic publishing system?
🚧 What key challenges does the academic community face?
🔍 Are there opportunities for universities to reshape the future of #ScholarlyCommunication?
🔗 New EUA briefing buff.ly/0C0Wqfn

#AcademicSky #EduSky

DIAMAS releases Diamond Open Access Recommendations and Guidelines

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European University Association (EUA) @eua.eu · Jun 6

💎 📖 #Diamas project releases #DiamondOA Recommendations and Guidelines
for Institutions, Funders, Sponsors, Donors, and Policymakers.
ℹ️ buff.ly/bwSeFJL

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenScience #SciencePolicy @eudch.bsky.social‬

How universities can protect and promote academic freedom

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European University Association (EUA) @eua.eu · Jun 4

Universities and their communities play an essential role in protecting and promoting academic freedom. 🛡️ 🤲 They must commit to making academic freedom a lived and daily reality.

Read EUA's position paper buff.ly/35qwaif

#AcademicFreedom

JOSS re-evaluated as JUFO 1 in Finland, expands its definition - Nordic RSE

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · May 28

It's great to see that a national research evaluation organization, the Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO), has rated @joss-openjournals.bsky.social as level 1, recognizing its scholarly value

Frankie Robertson helped make this happen, with Nordic-RSE, & wrote about it: nordic-rse.org/blog/joss-ju...

We bring together the community of people writing and contributing to research software from Nordic universities, research institutes, companies and other organizations to share knowledge, to organize...

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · May 29

@polecopub.bsky.social presenting #Matilda as a new source for Open Citations at #WOOC2025 in Bologna

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · May 28

📢 Webinaari 11.6. klo 10:00-11:30: Yliopistojen, AMKien ja tutkimuslaitosten näkemyksiä tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallisen vaikuttavuuden arvioinnista sekä Alankomaiden, Norjan, Puolan ja UK:n arviointijärjestelmien vertailu.

Ilmoittautuminen ja lisätietoa: www.julkaisufoorumi.fi/fi/tapahtuma...

Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you Pablo for the great contribution and discussion @RESSH2025!

Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · May 18

Paljon onnea!

PhD Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research Publishing

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · Apr 25

Papers mills and other manipulative practices are major problem in scientific publishing system. Addressing this problem requires in-depth system-level understanding of dynamics leading to these practices. At @cwts.nl we have PhD position to work on this!

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

PhD candidate Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research PublishingThe past decade has seen the rise of distinct new challenges for research integrity in the context of scientific publishing....

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our paper "Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations" was published today in Scientometrics: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Thank you Emanuel Kulczycki, @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social for the great collaboration!

Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations - Scientometrics

This study explores ways of identifying learned societies within the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a type of organization that so far lacks its own category within the registry. Despite their ...

Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Apr 8

Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’

retractionwatch.com/2025/04/07/m...

The managing editors and entire editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly, a Wiley title, have resigned, citing “unilateral decisions” by the publisher “that affected the editorial process.”&…

retractionwatch.com

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Apr 8

PeerJ is now part of a large for-profit commercial publisher.
Sad 😶.
peerj.com/blog/post/11...

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Apr 3

📢 The Draft Programme of the #RESSH2025 conference is published! 46 presentations, 5 posters, and a keynote by Toma Tasovac: "Reshaping Research Assessment: What Research Infrastructures Have Got to Do With It?"
Info and registration: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...

RESSH2025 Conference

RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists o...

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Mar 30

📢Deadline for submissions to #STI2025 has been extended to 14 April 2025. The 29th Annual STI-ENID Conference will take place in Bristol from 3–5 September 2025. Submissions can be made via Oxford Abstracts, accessible through the conference website: www.stienid2025.org

Home | STIENID2025 Bristol

Official website of the 29th Annual STI ENID Conference 2025

www.stienid2025.org