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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@andrewnez but the TDM opt-out needs to be machine-readable, so I'm not sure there's much value in printing it in the paper copy (not machine-readable!) https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/dutch-court-holds-that-tdm-opt-out-must.html 🤷‍♂️

Just the usual posturing...

Dutch court holds that TDM opt-out must be done by "machine-readable" means

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Just found out an org I'm affiliated with gets their hex stickers printed with Sticker Mule (who are MAGA supporters) - where are the rad projects getting stickers printed these days? Recommendations please!

(right now we're looking for USA-based, but long-terms we'll want an EU printer too - […]

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Bianca Kramer @msphelps.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Is there a relationship between the metadata publishers submit to Crossref and the submission systems they use? 🤔

In this new preprint with @HLdeJonge, we analyzed 153 publishers and 4 major systems to find out.

👉 https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/ndx3f_v1 […]

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Metadata coverage by publisher for abstracts, affiliations, references, funding, ORCIDs and licenses, categorized by their submission" system.

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I think scholarslop might be my new favourite word https://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-coming-threat-of-algorithmic-idea.html?m=1

HT @Samuelmoore

Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 8d

The @EUCommission would like to hear your views on the governance and sustainability of critical open source software. The survey closes October 5th.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FOSSEPS_Governance_and_Sustainability_Survey

#OpenSource #governance #sustainability

Study of the European Commission: Survey on the Governance and Sustainability of Critical Open Source Software

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JesseBot @jessebot.social.smallhack.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Apparently there's a audio sample how to say :forgejo: Forgejo (as in the self hosted git server)! That is not how I was pronouncing it 😅

https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

#forgejo

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Library Cactus/Sarah Humphreys @sarahhlib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 8d

It's that time of year again!

Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 Conference
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, and accessible […]

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

A new banner on a Wiley site.
I am not a healthcare professional, so am I not supposed to look at this evo-devo paper now? Can I read the abstract?

Any ideas why this new #enshittification feature? #publishing

banner on a Wiley site asking readers to confirm that they are healthcare professionals

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

IRONY OVERLOAD.

There's an event happening in November, in Berlin, called "Falling Walls".

Some of the event sponsors include SpringerNature, Elsevier and "The Elsevier Foundation".

Why are two companies that are well known for erecting expensive paywalls up around knowledge sponsoring a […]

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16d

This is a long shot, but here we go: in November 2024, I made this screenshot presumably from a YouTube video that I watched on #reproducibility or #OpenScience. Does anyone recognise it? I sadly did not make a note of the source... Thank you!

Slide entitled: Four Pillars of Research with a picture of ruin with four columns. The text reads:
Reproducible: Same investigation, repeatable inference - Result exists
Reliable: New investigation, expected result - Result generalizes or transports
Reasoned: Any investigation, justified inference - Result might be knowledge Respectable: Ethical & Open Do no harm & preserve rights of others to reach their own conclusions & humane working conditions
The caption reads: You can picture them there on the right

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 19d

New blog ✍️

LSE Press Journal Round-up, our journals newsletter, launches later this month.

Learn more here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2025/09/03/lse-press-to-launch-journals-newsletter/

@lseblogs.bsky.social #ScholarlyComms #JournalPublishing #OpenAccess

LSE Press to launch journals newsletter - LSE Press

LSE Press is pleased to announce the launch of a newsletter dedicated to journal communications, LSE Press Journal Round-up. Published quarterly, LSE Press's Journals Round-up will be a quarterly news...

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Yay for quoots

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115224321548138026

Eugen Rochko (@[email protected])

Good morning! If you’re on mastodon.social (or another server running nightly builds) you can begin quoting posts in your posts (quooting?) starting today. Remember, you control whether you can be quoted, and can always retract your post from a specific quote. And you can quote me on that!

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Going on spree of flagging papers on @PubPeer because I can...

All Elsevier and IEEE so far...

Why do research libraries pay these publishers so much money for such underwhelming quality control?

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28d

The University of Utrecht is cancelling the #webofscience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

"Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial […]

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Luke Drury @luke-drury.mastodon.dias.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29d

I never thought I would see the day that a Fellow of the Royal Society would seek to interfere in our upcoming presidential election by attacking the reputation of our democratically elected Tánaiste while supporting a totally unqualified local Trumpeen with multiple convictions for violence […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

The teachings of Falun Gong stem entirely from its enigmatic leader,
Li Hongzhi, whom followers view as a “God-like figure.”

Since settling in the United States in the late 1990s, Li has remained reclusive, but his beliefs shape the core tenets of Falun Gong and its many tendrils:
in addition […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

JSTOR a “tech juggernaut” . Really? 🤔

RE: https://newsie.social/@infodocket/115136285119615741

infoDOCKET (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image JSTOR Profiled in "How an Academic Archive Became a Tech Juggernaut" (via Chronicle of Philanthropy) https://www.philanthropy.com/article/how-an-academic-archive-became-a-tech-juggernaut #AI #libraries @[email protected]

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

in the pre-internet days, editorial & selection diversity was accomodated _within_ a journal, rather than creating new journals by the creation of new journal SECTIONS.

Each section could have different editors and different rules. Having fewer journals wouldn't necessarily mean having less […]

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

you can still have disciplinary nuance, and different styles of review, and different ways of doing things without necessarily having 100,000+ different siloes which make access very complicated.

I'm not trying to make everything a monoculture. I just think 129,000+ journals is possibly an […]

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

Scopus indexes about 36,000 _not_ OA journals.

So we've got at least 93,804 + 36,000 academic journals

= 129,902 academic journals.

Bravo everyone. Soon there will be one journal for every researcher?

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

We're officially in the era of over 100,000 academic journals 🙃 🎉

"After we removed journals with duplicated journal names and International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSNs), 93,804 open-access journals were left"

So there's 93,804 OA journals + at least 7,000 non-OA journals

Rather than […]

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

Special shoutout for the ePub version of this book.

Great on my desktop computer where I can turn the page responsively with one button, with the Calibre ePub reader software.

https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/h989r611r

(I guess this is mostly just a dunk on Adobe and its tremendous […]

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28

I _think_ but would need to do more work to confirm that it was never listed in @DOAJ . It certainly isn't in DOAJ now, at this point in time.

Scimago website still showing it as a "Q1" journal 🙃

https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21101170719&tip=sid&clean=0

Journal of Posthumanism

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28

Reading-up on the 'Journal of Posthumanism' ( ISSN: 2634-3576 ; E-ISSN: 2634-3584 )

until recently it was listed as a "1st Quartile" journal in Scopus (Q1).

Then the journal must have got hijacked or something because a lot of the 2025 papers are rubbish. It went from 28 papers/yr to 1250 […]

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