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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - 17 months Postdoc for international ANR project M/F

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 16

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.

Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review

Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jul 15

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....

Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals

Abstract. Although the organisational aspects of scholarly journals—such as the types of organisations responsible for publishing individual journals, whether independently or in collaboration—have si...

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OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

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 👇

How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?

As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of d...

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clockssarchive.bsky.social @clockssarchive.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

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Alicia Wise @wisealic.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢 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

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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.

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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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European Diamond Capacity Hub @eudch.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hosting a #DiamondOA event?
Share it on the #EDCHForum!

It’s easy:
🗨️ Create a topic
➕ Click “Create event”
🔗 Add details (Zoom, registration, etc.)
It appears in the shared calendar!

Stay connected 👉 buff.ly/twPYd9q

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicEvents

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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · Jun 23

Smart use of LLM to classify the policy statements! Will definitely have a read through this.

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · Jun 13

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.

Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 13

Gold Open Access 2025 Articles in Journals 2020-2024 (GOA10) Walt Crawford https://waltcrawford.name/goa25.pdf

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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

The Open Science Cookbook

ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting ope...

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Mika Holopainen @mholopa.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · Jun 12

📣 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...

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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · Jun 12

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!

Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · Jun 12

📣 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...

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · Jun 10

Mies! Oletko vähintään 15 ja suomalainen tai Suomessa asuva?

Osallistutko pelikulttuuriin esim. pelaamalla video-, rooli-, lauta- tai miniatyyripelejä, katsomalla pelivideoita tai vaikkapa cossaamalla?

Tervetuloa vastaamaan kyselyyn pelikulttuurista ja mieheydestä osoitteessa bit.ly/pelikulttuuri

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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · Jun 3

If you're interested in learning more about #Collaboration in #DiamondOA publishing (successes & failures!), why not read the #DIAMAS report @mikaellaakso.bsky.social

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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · May 28

Next week is going to be fun! Join the web stream to take part in this conference that is happening on Tuesday next week.

European Diamond Capacity Hub @eudch.bsky.social · May 28

It’s #DIAMASWeek — and today’s panel is all about collaboration.

Panel: “Collaboration in #DiamondOA Publishing”
🕥 14:00–15:00 CEST

No sustainable Diamond ecosystem without cooperation.

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · May 21

We showed that non-English papers receive citations largely from the same language, indicating that conservaiton evidence rarely crosses #languagebarriers. Having an English abstract = more English citations.
2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations!
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Language patterns of citations of articles in all non-English languages

Relationship between the number of same-language citations of a conservation article (citations from articles of the same language as the cited article) and the number of English-language citations (citations from English-language articles) received by non-English-language articles with (blue, n = 140) and without (orange, n = 79) an English-language abstract

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · May 18

Data sources used in bibliometrics 1978–2022: From proprietary databases to the great wide open - Lindelöw - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology - Wiley Online Library https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.25018

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · May 13

Science is under attack. In this post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and I detail events around 5 types of threats, and we propose a resilience model to safeguard scientific communities and open infrastructures.

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The resilience of open science in times of crisis

The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · May 14

🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons".
Read more ⬇️
openfuture.eu/publication/...

"Governing the scholarly AI Commons" report cover with Open Future background image.

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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · May 8

Here is a short video introduction to my research topics produced by Tampere University. I think it is nice that these are being made for researchers to put faces and voices to otherwise static faculty listings. Slow motion library antics included 🐢📚💻. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPi...

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YouTube video by Tampere University

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