Our colleague Madhura S. Amdekar, PhD is speaking at an Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) webinar this Monday.
The session covers how #metadata supports discoverability and transparency in scholarly publishing. Designed for editors, researchers, publishers, librarians, and reviewers.
📅 15 June 2026, 15:00-16:00 Dubai Time
🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/dUJj2rDv
#ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchMetadata #OpenInfrastructure #ACSE
Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?
I had the unpleasant experience recently of getting peer reviews directed to me for my (three years deceased) friend and mentor for whom I’m a literary executor. When I complained to the journal I discovered it’s a new automated database which Springer are using which I can opt of. When I went to opt out I discovered this is a frequent enough experience that it’s actually listed as one of the options in the drop down:
This is a bit grim, no? It would be such an easy exercise to clean the data by looking at prima facie inconsistencies between reviewer name and the contact details. Indeed it’s a textbook example of something Claude Code or Codex could do without any technical skill being required. It wouldn’t catch it all but it would be such an easy triage to perform in order to mark some records as needed verificaton. Yet they choose not to do it and instead rely on manual opt outs which does rather capture my worst feelings about commercial publishers. This is the system itself:
Springer Nature’s mission is to make publishing research a simple and rewarding experience. That’s why we introduced Snapp, the Springer Nature Article Processing Platform, to enable research to be published as efficiently as possible.
We created Snapp to be intuitive and simple to use, and it’s designed to better meet the needs of the research community – our authors, editors, and reviewers.
Snapp is built in-house by Springer Nature, so it continuously evolves to respond to researcher needs. We’re also using user feedback to guide its development and release regular updates and new features – visit the What’s new pages to find out more.
https://www.springernature.com/gp/snapp
#automation #higherEducation #journals #peerReview #scholarlyPublishing #springer
📅 June 15, 2026 (12:00 CEST)
Join SeDOA's online series "This Is How We Do It"! 💎
Agnieszka Wiktor-Sass will showcase the PRESSto platform. Learn about practical solutions and institutional support for Diamond OA journals 🚀.
🌐 Held in English
🚫 live, no recording
Register here: https://eveeno.com/218790399
#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #AcademicMastodon #ScholarlyPublishing #SeDOA
The event series will invite international guests to discuss Diamond Open Access initiatives and challenges at their institutions, as well as their integration into national efforts.
🤝Join PKP & Crossref on June 17 for a step-by-step walkthrough of upgrading from OJS 3.x to OJS 3.5, the upcoming Long Term Support release.
Latest features, performance improvements & critical security updates await!
#OpenJournalSystems #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #Metadata #DOIs #JournalManagers #JournalEditors #ojsSystemAdmins
Metadata quality affects whether your content gets found, linked, and used. Our Participation Reports tool shows you exactly how you're doing, and we're walking through it live on June 17. Worth an hour of your time if you work in scholarly publishing or research infrastructure. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/9117793981137/WN_g9GPBJ3zRX658EE43408NA
⏰ One week to go!
@almasiproject.bsky.social is hosting its 2nd discussion series on scholar-led publishing:
📖 From Preprints to Publication: How Community-Driven Models Are Reshaping Scholarly Communication
🗓️ 11 June 2026 · 16:30 CEST
👉 Programme and registration: u2l.fr/th3dc8
I am at Bruges, Belgium, for the TORQUE wind energy conference. If you want to chat and discuss #OpenScience, let me know.
Will discuss future of #ScholarlyPublishing and
#DiamondOpenAccess on a panel today.
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