#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

Journal of #Librarianship and Scholarly Communication Posts Updated Policy on Artificial Intelligence Generated Content #AI Policy https://iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/site/editorial-policies/#aigc ||| Announcement https://mailchi.mp/1fa01540cae5/jlsc-news-aigc-policy-update-call-for-reviews?e=da328b9720 #scholcom #journals #libraries #JLSC

"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

Check out Jefferson Pooley's @jpooley call to more utopian thinking in #scholcom
https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CM23_Pooley_Before_Progress.pdf
"The new Plan S blueprint, ‘Toward Responsible Publishing’ (2023), largely mimicked the Council of Europe’s (2023) call for a revamped publishing system. Both bear strong resemblances to a scheme to re-classify publishers as competing service providers, a scheme advanced—in what once seemed a quixotic campaign—by Björn Brembs, the German neuroscientist. Real utopianism in action"
#openaccess

I'm all for a move away from a focus on for-profit and non-inclusive models, towards a publishing landscape that fully includes institute- and community-driven #OpenAccess.

I therefore signed this petition, and I hope you would consider doing the same if you're based at a Dutch institute :)

https://openscienceretreat.eu/call-to-commitment-future-proof-oa-publishing/

#OpenScience #Academia #ScholCom #futureproofOA

The latest ]u[ Ubiquity newsletter is now available to read on our blog! Catch up on what we've been up to over the last few months: https://buff.ly/3R2pBbO #OA #OpenAccess #scholcom 🔓

#English dominates scientific #research – here’s how we can fix it, and why it matters
https://theconversation.com/english-dominates-scientific-research-heres-how-we-can-fix-it-and-why-it-matters-226198

#science #publishing #publications #scholcomm #scholcom #multilingualism #languages #diversity #DEI #humanities

UPDATED (March 29, 2024): Statement From cOAlition S / Plan S on New (Refreshed) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Open Access Policy https://www.infodocket.com/2024/03/27/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-announces-a-new-open-access-policy-that-will-take-effect-on-january-1-2025/ #oa #publishing #scholcom @cOAlitionS_OA

ORCID and GitHub Sign Memorandum of Understanding & More News Headlines https://www.infodocket.com/2024/03/28/georgia-lawmakers-leave-library-bill-on-the-shelf-orcid-and-github-sign-memorandum-of-understanding-more-news-headlines/ #scholcom #PID #metadata

I'm probably not going to actually write this up as a #DataSittersClub book, but today is the day I'm sitting down to get #DOI for the DSC books, which has led to the side quest of spreading the good word of ✨ #ORCID ✨ to some of our co-authors. #ScholCom #DigitalHumanities

"The AI hype-cycle froth has come for scholarly publishing."

https://upstream.force11.org/large-language-publishing/

#scholcom #publishing

I asked #ChatGPT to suggest research topics in the field of #scientometrics, #librarianship, #scholcom that would be of interest to the #Ignobel Prize committee and... How does this demon know?! I didn't tell him anything about cats!)

"Measuring the Influence of Cat Videos on Public Engagement with Science"

💣 🚀 :blobcatheart:

OBC Library Outreach Associate Livy Snyder & #Scholcom librarian Erica Finch (Utah State University Library) made great connections yesterday during their poster presentation "Closing the Knowledge Gap: Open Access Knowledge Sharing between Publishers, Authors, & Libraries" at the Charleston Conference!
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