#scholcom — Public Fediverse posts

Scientific journals that feel straight out of 1665, prices that could come from a MrBeast meet-and-greet, privacy as lax as Facebook, and reliability as dubious as a TikTok lifehack: it was long past time for the EU to free science—if anyone would let it.

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige

#openscience #openaccess #scholcom #scicom

Making the Connection: An Examination of Institutional #Repositories and Scholarly Communication #Crosslinking Practices

#IRs remain a powerful tool for sharing and preserving scholarship. #Scholcom services and resources are essential to promoting and supporting IRs. #Linking SC services within an IR offers support to users at their point of need. This study investigates the prevalence of web linking between IR and SC services.

https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26768

#OpenScience #libraries #research

"You are invited to join the editorial board of a journal" and other personal stories with the "grey zone" of publishing at MDPI. #predatorypublishing #scholcom https://polecopub.hypotheses.org/3231

What great news! The International Standard Content Code #ISCC finally became #ISO 24138. I am quite sure this is a groundbreaking change for #Scholcom #GLAM and digital cultural heritage in general. #PID https://iscc.io/iso-publishes-new-standard-enabling-content-transparency-iso-24138/ via @Lambo

Wanna read a recap by OpenMethods deputy chief editor @uwuttke about the workshop with fantastic editorial team members @alizhorvathaliz and @chnunn and a group of highly spirited participants? 💪🤓
This blog post is for you: ➡️Amplifying unheard voices in Digital Humanities: The very first OpenMethods Edit-a-thon @DH2023 Graz, Austria, 09.08.2023, https://ulrikewuttke.wordpress.com/?p=2154
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Skimming through a very recent report on the current state of #scholcom #infrastructure - and kind of worried that we're still, in this year of 2023, doing the old capitalist playbook of preaching consolidation, consolidation, consolidation ... and transformative agreements.

Is it really so hard to acknowledge other forms that try to do things differently? #Ithaka

Like, no mention whatsoever of alternative forms of organisation that don't just merely focus on competition and / or cost reduction ... 😩 #scalingsmall

It's not as if we didn't have key non-profits / not-for-profits working in the sector, right?

@debivort @kofanchen @NicoleCRust

How about this:

For those of you in #scholcom still actively posting on #AcademicTwitter:

What would Musk have to do to make you leave #ScienceTwitter ?

#aMuskTooFar #twitterRedLine #scicomm