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The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure Report is here. Among the findings: 1) Infrastructure is key to supporting #researchintegrity 2) Supporting infrastructure supports reproducibility & trust FULL REPORT by @investinopen.bsky.social ⤵️ bit.ly/3U1VJ42 #scholcomm #openaccess #opendata #openscience

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

WRONG DEARH SPIRAL - this is literally an argument to merge three universities entirely on the basis of opaque, commercial and flawed university ranking systems. The higher education system is screwed people!

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

TROPE the "allowing people to deposit AAMs into IRs will be the end of publishing" furphy is raising its ugly head again. My semi-regular reminder that there has never been ANY EVIDENCE to back this claim. Here's something I prepared earlier(2015) unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/2015/10/16/h...

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Half-life is half the story – Unlocking Research

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ARTICLE www.nature.com/articles/d41... reminding me of the robust discussion about 10 years ago around whether putting limits around where work could be published was an academic freedom matter. It is not. Academic freedom is much deeper and allows for free thought & questioning without persecution

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Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities

Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here’s how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

DRAFT - (NISO) revised Journal Article Versions Recommended Practice www.niso.org/publications... Consumer friendly statuses are: • Unreviewed Article • Article Under Review • Accepted, Reviewed Article • Formally Published, Stable Article

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JAV Revision Working Group | NISO website

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

GREAT! I remember discussions about the need for something like this in Australia in 2009, so it is fantastic that this has come to reality.

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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just updated the page on the end of #OATP w some data on its work. cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/The_End... * Over its 17+ years, we had 121 active taggers. * We tagged 111,411 items, or 17.4 per day. * 93,909 were new at the time of tagging. 17,232 were older items tagged retroactively. #OpenAccess

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The End of the Open Access Tracking Project - Harvard Open Access Project

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Love it. One of my beloved memories of Cambridge were the cars that had got stuck on one of the busways. Was that deliberate? An attempt to avoid traffic? Or was the driver actually really stupid? Will we ever know?

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

I like to think that initiatives like the @openbookcollective.bsky.social are a really key part of the process of moving from this capitalist model of academia towards something that is more diverse, democratic, participatory, community-led, more about knowledge as a public good for all. #OAT26

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FREE RIDE: Part of the argument I made at a session at Curtin Uni in Perth on 26 Aug called "Where are we at with Open Science" was that in Australia we are a high user of open infrastructure and we generally do not support this vital infrastructure. doi.org/10.26187/dea...

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CLARIFICATION- the research article itself is not saying diamond to paid gold was inevitable, some commentary *about* the research findings is.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Agree with you both. I was cross about some commentary on the article from a commercial publisher sympathiser.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PERSPECTIVE: despite some crowing that this was 'inevitable' etc, the article covers the period 2009-2026. In 2021 the estimated number of Diamond OA was 29,000 journals. Over the 15 year period covered, 440 journals have flipped. As a proportion of the 2021 number, that's 1.5%. Hardly an exodus.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'REASONABLE REQUEST' - In case we needed any further evidence that we should be explicit about data sharing ... www.openscience.nl/en/cases/whe...

Who is responsible?
Authors write the statement, but journals set the rules and decide if those rules mean something. When a journal requires a link to a specific, named repository, authors deposit the data there. When a journal accepts any statement at all, authors will write any statement at all.

A few changes would close much of this gap, and none of them are particularly radical. In short:

Require a repository link as part of the DAS, not just a written statement.
Align with existing data citation standards, such as those set out by CESSDA.
Check that the link actually works before the article is published.
Put a process in place for readers who later discover that promised data isn't accessible.
Funders should verify data sharing at the point researchers report back, rather than relying on journal policy alone.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TROPE - this week's Journalology re green OA: "If this happened at scale, libraries may end up cancelling institutional subscriptions making the journal financially unsustainable." Really? Where's the proof? That's right, THERE ISN'T ANY. See 2015 unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/2015/10/16/h...

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Half-life is half the story – Unlocking Research

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our cyber teams are still working on stuff down under.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a former science communicator my heart is singing for your contribution to the community!

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We have ‘the trickle down effect’ in Oz. How the hell does that work in practice?

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Give each one a specific colour and only buy undies and socks for them in that colour

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'd like to see one that says that 'costs more than this subscription to an academic resource'. Of course the Alpha Romeo, the diamond ring, the European holiday etc don't count. It is basically the actual jet plane.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

RANKING: usage of @oapenbooks.bsky.social OAPEN & @doabooks.bsky.social DOAB in oapen.hypotheses.org/476 Australia is v high user globally: 15 UTS, 19 Sydney, 28 UQ, 33 ANU, 39 UWA, 42 UNE 1 x Aust uni supports DOAB - Uni of Melb library.unimelb.edu.au/open-scholar... do not appear on this list

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The success of OAPEN and DOAB in Primo and Summon

The OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) aggregate open access books and chapters, and make them globally available through several channels. We work together with many organisa...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 01/09/2026

This is why we had a whole open access movement. You can't leave this stuff up to the good will of organisations who may take access away at a moment's notice.

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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I don't think that defending the profit margins of commercial publishers and their shareholders is included in my job description and/or my professional ethics and it's still wild to me that I encounter people who disagree

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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is the last month of activity for the Open Access Tracking Project ( #OATP, @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy ). September 30, 2026, will be the last day of tagging and updates. I say more on Mastodon. fediscience.org/@petersuber/...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And it should change the way we think about papers. The notion most humans read most of them from first word to last is obviously delusional, but agents can. So what does this mean for how we present content, narratives, data, and context for human vs machine readers?

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In Australia cockapoos are called spoodles

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

MISSING- Libraries appear not to feature in these higher education simulations. Interesting.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

AI loves the short one sentence paragraph for effect (which is lost by overuse). It’s a dead giveaway every time.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Shakespeare and Hathaway is fun. And Death Valley is great, rewatching Series 1 so my husband can catch up and surprised how often I am laughing out aloud.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

JOB DESCRIPTIONS in Scholarly Communication from 2015 - 2025 now uploaded to Zenodo - one year per record, each record has links to all the others zenodo.org/records/2205... I have uploaded these for people to use, analyse etc. It represents the evolution of a new area of work, now established.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In Australia ‘data’ is pronounced ‘daaata’, as opposed to the northern hemisphere where it is pronounced ‘date-a’. I have continued to use the latter since returning. My small rebellion to remain global.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ooooh! That’s really interesting- I will give it a go.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I do believe that any scientific publisher residing anywhere may be legally exposed under these amendments unless they can guarantee that their editorial and peer reviewing processes were carried out by humans—not LLMs. www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eu...

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EU AI Act — Transparency Obligations for AI-Generated Content (Article 50) | JD Supra

Below, we map the transparency obligations applicable to AI-generated or manipulated content under Article 50 of the AI Act (Regulation (EU)...

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 19/08/2026

Our analysis is rigorous, complete, and transparent (including in its limitations). Implications otherwise are baseless.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I know it really annoys me- we talk about ‘pre-paid’ to avoid language like ‘publish OA for free’. WE ARE STILL PAYING!!!!

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Agreed similarly assessments of money ‘saved’ by agreements when many of the papers would never have been made OA had there been a direct cost.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

But many APCs are being paid outside of these agreements at Faculty level. Don’t know about other countries but in Oz we don’t have anything like full coverage of agreements.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

USEFUL: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14116 Dataset of APCs from 14 scholarly publishers, 2019-2025 - "The dataset was generated to allow for more precise analysis of APCs and can support library collection development and scientometric analysis estimating APCs paid in gold and hybrid OA journals"

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thanks - not personal but sad things in the world.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

SILLLINESS- these are designed to sit over the saucepan edge to allow steam to escape when cooking pasta. Their shape and light weight means they wiggle when you open the drawer. Sharing because we need more joy. Sad things have happened recently.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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