Infodoc MicroVeilleMobilizing Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Exploring Competing Articulations of Openness in Policy and Practice
#CorinaMacDonald #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #KnowledgeMobilization #OpenResearch #ScholarlyCommunication
Karen Keiller ๐ฅ ๐New to me, great article. #scholarlycommunication
Now I need to figure out why getting scholars on the Fediverse is such a slog. Iโm doing a lightning talk next week to academic librarians in #Alberta
Mastodon over Mammon: towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge | Royal Society Open Science | The Royal Society https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/10/7/230207/91987/Mastodon-over-Mammon-towards-publicly-owned
Serhii NazarovetsGave a short online lecture on altmetrics today. Main point: altmetrics measure attention, not quality. Sometimes they capture real interest - sometimes just noise. Attention โ impact.
๐ https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30154.12488
#Altmetrics #ResearchImpact #OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication #Scientometrics
Marco TullneyRecommended reading:
Knowledge Exchange, Fraser, K., Pinfield, S., & Chiarelli, A. (2026). Charting New Paths: The Promise of Alternative Publishing Practices. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17733624
#ScholarlyCommunication #ScholarlyPublishing #Innovation #OpenAccess #AlternativePublishing
Charting New Paths: The Promise of Alternative Publishing Practices
How does innovation arise in scientific publishing? Under what conditions can alternative publishing practices become established as the new standard? And what options for action are available to research institutions, funding organizations, or operators of publishing platforms? Answers to these and similar questions are provided in the final report of the Alternative Publishing Platforms project, Charting New Paths: The Promise of Alternative Publishing Practices. The study, commissioned by Knowledge Exchange and carried out by Research Consulting with the support of an international group of experts, identified six distinct alternative publishing practices: preprint posting, open peer review, preregistration, versioning, review and curation after publication, and modular publications, that address specific limitations in conventional publishing workflows, offer benefits around research integrity through transparency; increased speed and efficiency; and shifts power dynamics towards greater equity and access. The barriers to adoption of these alternative publishing practices are deeply embedded in how scholarly communication operates and researchers face hard choices between experimentation and career advancement. This work identifies the critical enablers for the successful adoption: critical collective action and coordination, reform of research assessment, investment in infrastructure and capacity and representation in digital infrastructure. It emphasizes opportunities for action across five key stakeholders: Research funders, Research institutions, Conventional publishing platforms, Alternative publishing platforms and Infrastructure providers.
Harald KlinkeThis symposium at Brown highlights a shift: AI, community-centered research, and new publishing formats are no longer add-ons โ they are redefining the field itself.
The real question now: Who builds and governs these infrastructures?
https://events.brown.edu/event/328468-forging-the-future-of-digital-scholarship-people
#DigitalHumanities #AI #ScholarlyCommunication #OpenScience
The real question now: Who builds and governs these infrastructures?
https://events.brown.edu/event/328468-forging-the-future-of-digital-scholarship-people
#DigitalHumanities #AI #ScholarlyCommunication #OpenScience
DOAJ๐ Diamond Survey ๐
Lyrasis, in partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the California Digital Library have launched a national survey to better understand the US #DiamondOA ecosystem #ScholarlyCommunication #LibraryPublishing
๐ www.tinyurl.com/mappingdoa
Lyrasis, in partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the California Digital Library have launched a national survey to better understand the US #DiamondOA ecosystem #ScholarlyCommunication #LibraryPublishing
๐ www.tinyurl.com/mappingdoa
Timothy ElfenbeinPlease also share with colleagues who may be involved in community-supported publishing.
#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #ScholarlyCommunication #AcademicPublishing #LibraryPublishing #OpenScience #KnowledgeAsAPublicGood
Nataliia KaliuzhnaA new preprint, โAcademic Publishing in Occupied Territories: Challenges to Research Integrity and Academic Trust,โ uncovers the complex legal and ethical challenges surrounding the unlawful appropriation of Ukraine-born academic journals by the occupation authorities of the Russian Federation.
By applying bibliometric methods, the study examines visibility and impact of these journals.
An interesting study on humour in scientific talks (531 presentations, 870 jokes):
67% of jokes failed.
Only ~9% got real laughter.
Men joke slightly more, and native English speakers are more likely to succeed.
๐ https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.3000
O yes... Joking in a foreign language is hard, and even in your own, it only works if the audience truly gets it.
#AcademicHumor #ConferenceLife #AcademicLife #ResearchCulture #ScholarlyCommunication
the Library LoonNew post on Gavia Libraria, in #ScholarlyCommunication:
Disincentivizing AI slop