Predatory journals continue to pose challenges for researchers worldwide. Our English-language self-paced course Recognising and Avoiding Predatory Journals: Publishing Safely in Academia helps participants identify warning signs, evaluate journals, and make informed publishing decisions.

The course is aimed at researchers, early-career academics, librarians, and everyone involved in #scholarlycommunication.
🇬🇧 https://service.tib.eu/toern/course/view.php?id=75
🇩🇪 https://service.tib.eu/toern/course/view.php?id=64

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #WissKomm

Today I had the pleasure of presenting my fellowship research at the weekly interdisciplinary #VUIAS seminar.

 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35582.55364

One of the key messages was simple: metrics often reveal symptoms, but understanding integrity problems requires looking at research environments, incentives, and organisational cultures.

#ResearchIntegrity #Scientometrics #ResearchEthics #OpenScience #AcademicIntegrity #ScholarlyCommunication #HigherEducation #Science

What do we need PIDs to be if they're going to save the world?
Addressing questions of geopolitics, trust in knowledge, sustainability models, and the age-old centralisation vs federation question (by questioning the assumptions in the question)

#PIDfest26 #PIDs #PersistentIdentifiers #OpenScience #TrustInScience #ResearchInfrastructure #ScholarlyCommunication #OpenInfrastructure #KnowledgeInfrastructure #PIDCommunity #ResearchIntegrity #DigitalInfrastructure

Noch eine Woche bis zum Bewerbungsschluss:

Projektkoordinator:in Gutachter:innen-Empfehlungssystem für Zeitschriften (m/w/d), 24 Monate, 75% E13, ab 1.10.

https://www.tib.eu/de/die-tib/karriere-und-ausbildung/stellenangebote/detail/stellenausschreibung-nr-18-2026

Aufstockungsoptionen prüfen wir gerne. Das wird ein spannendes Projekt - gerne anschauen, weiterleiten. Stehe für Nachfragen zur Verfügung.

#OpenAccess #RecommenderSystems #ScholarlyCommunication

ALMASI is organizing its 2nd discussion series on scholar-led publishing.

From Preprints to Publication: How Community-Driven Models Are Reshaping Scholarly Communication

🕓 Thursday 11ᵗʰ June 2026 at 16:30 CEST
📝 Discover the program: u2l.fr/th3dc8
👉 Register to attend: u2l.fr/nfd3mx

#scholarled #publishing #ALMASI #DiamondOA #preprint #scholarlycommunication

Prof. Dr. #SaharVahdati leitet die #TIB-Forschungsgruppe „#AI and #ScholarlyCommunication“ und hat seit Anfang Oktober 2024 eine Professur im Fachgebiet #KünstlicheIntelligenz in der #Wissenschaftskommunikation an der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informatik der @unihannover.
Am 1. Juni hält sie nun ihre Antrittsvorlesung zu „Nature-inspired Intelligence: Rethinking AI for Science, Discovery, an Scholarly Communication“.

Mehr dazu: https://www.tib.eu/de/termine/detail/antrittsvorlesung-von-prof-dr-sahar-vahdati

This month's #OpenAccess #publication highlight:

➡️ "Disappointment is coming: rules of engagement in Bill Drummond’s rock memoirs and #HBO’s Game of Thrones"

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1515/fns-2025-2029

Read our interview with Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) on Game of Thrones' notorious finale, the power of #digital platforms to intensify #fan investment and why open access is a question of #global #justice.

🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-disappointment-is-coming-rules-of-engagement-in-bill-dr

#OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication

Naseej has joined the DataCite Registered Service Provider Program, the first provider from the Middle East. Through Medad, Naseej supports DOI registration workflows that help institutions improve metadata quality, interoperability & discoverability. Learn more on our blog: https://doi.org/10.5438/cp4k-mp67

#DataCite #Naseej #DOI #Metadata #ResearchInfrastructure #OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication #PersistentIdentifiers #ResearchData #Interoperability #Discoverability #OpenResearch #PID

The "Implementing FAIR Workflows project" has contributed a dedicated persistent identifiers chapter to "The Turing Way", a community-driven handbook for reproducible, ethical & collaborative research, raising awareness of how PIDs & metadata & open infrastructure connect: https://doi.org/10.5438/aah4-gj16

#FAIRData #PIDs #Metadata #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch #TuringWay #OpenInfrastructure #ResearchData #ScholarlyCommunication #PersistentIdentifiers

Wir werden uns in einem spannenden Projekt der Entwicklung eines Empfehlungssystems widmen, das passende Gutachter*innen für eingereichte Artikel vorschlägt – und Nutzung in OJS implementieren. Gemeinsames Projekt mit @slubdresden und Universität Marburg.

Hier die Stellenausschreibung für die Koordinations-/Communitystelle bei uns im Team. E13, 2 Jahre, 75%, Aufstockung kann geprüft werden.

https://tib.eu/stellenangebot-18-2026

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication #GetFediHired #OpenBiblioJobs