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Mikael Laakso

@mikaellaakso.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Information Studies @ Tampere University, Finland. Conducting research, teaching, and supervision on scholarly communication, open science, and meta-research.

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Who Needs National Journals? Dissemination Strategies in Canadian Scholarly Communication | The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cjils/arti…
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Who Needs National Journals? Dissemination Strategies in Canadian Scholarly Communication | The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science
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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 14/08/2026
1/ NEW Preprint on an important question for the #DiamondOA community: Who Owns, Publishes, and Governs Diamond Open Access? based on a survey of journals using OJS. osf.io/preprints/me... cc. @nataschachtena.bsky.social @mikaellaakso.bsky.social
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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 03/08/2026
1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026
Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Very exciting to get the first paper copies of my new book with Tim Monteath called “Doing Open Social Science - A Guide for Researchers” published free in OA digital form by LSE Press on 14 May here press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... Paperbacks will be £30 or $42 but it is 400 pages…
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My new OA book with Tim Monteath "Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers" is out from @LSEPress on *14 May* See press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... It covers how 'open science' approaches can now be fully implemented by both qualitative & quantitative researchers in practical ways
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This report on open access to longform publications was also published today, providing a holistic and deep analysis of how green open access/self-archiving is currently positioned and working to support open access to such works in the United Kingdom.
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I am really happy to have been able to contribute to this new report, which collects together a broad international perspective on the challenges lay ahead of making more longform publications (i.e. books and other works) openly available.
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New article published today 🥳 What exactly do universities and funders reccomend or require when it comes to making academic books open access? That is what we zoomed in on in this study that has its origins in data collected during the EU-funded PALOMERA project. doi.org/10.1093/scip...
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated ✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky
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University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact
Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.
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Anna-Maria Maunu @maunuannu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Tampereen yliopiston Tiedon valoa -tapahtuma on 23.-24.1. keskustakampuksen Päätalossa. Tapahtuma on laajennettu kaksipäiväiseksi ja siihen on vapaa pääsy. Ohjelmaa on kaikille tieteestä, tutkimuksesta ja kulttuurista kiinnostuneille! www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...
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Tervetuloa Tiedon valoa -tapahtumaan 23.–24.1. – pääpuhujana kulttuuri-ikoni Seela Sella | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö
Tiedon valoa -tapahtuma järjestetään tänä vuonna ensimmäistä kertaa keskustakampuksen Päätalossa, ja samalla tapahtuma laajenee kaksipäiväiseksi. Tapahtumaan on vapaa pääsy, ja ohjelmaa on kaikille...
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Today I have to honor to act as opponent the doctoral disstertation of Michele Gibney at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. If you want to follow the action there is an open Zoom-link here, with a start in 5 minutes: lnu.se/en/meet-linn.... Link to dissertation: doi.org/10.15626/LUD...
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DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A comprehensive investigation of university published journals, - mapping and profiling journals globally (including data from Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and #DOAJ) New article from Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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University journals in the global academic publishing landscape: Mapping over 19,000 diverse titles based on Ulrichsweb data - Scientometrics
Universities have been an instrumental part of the scholarly publishing landscape dating back several centuries, but comprehensive mapping of the presence of universities' involvement in publishing of...
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Thank you for sharing the paper! In relation to the immense collective footprint of university journals we know relatively little about them, so more research is needed so that they could best be understood, acknowledged, and supported.
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NOPOS @journalnopos.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"From mess to method: A case study about designing a workshop on research data discovery", doi.org/10.7557/11.8.... Read about how a network of library research support staff in Denmark are helping researchers learn how to search for published #researchdata. #FAIR #datadiscovery #retrieval
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Gabriele Contessa @gabecontessa.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Science Denial
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Science Denial
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 13/10/2025
Reminder about next week's online panel. www.psu.edu/news/univers...
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Three global experts discuss ‘Practical Open Access for Everyone’ Oct. 23 online | Penn State University
Penn State University Libraries will host three of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of open access during a public online panel discussion, “We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyon...
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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
So glad to see this out! This was a big undertaking and I'm very happy with the end result. Thanks in particular to @judithfathallah.bsky.social for the work on this
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In three months and some change the full peer-reviewed paper based on this preprint is now out in Journal of Documentation doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... 🎉. Results and analysis did not change in the revision process but the theoretical framing and interpretation is strengthened based on reviewer feedback.
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Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements
Purpose. How open access (OA) should be supported has been a frequent point of debate during the last 3 decades as different pathways have been created and evolved. One particular point of contention ...
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Two post-doc positions in CNRS on international projects in Paris, for 17 & 24 months on #STS. The first one on #openscience monitoring, the second one on #opendata in research evaluation. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - 17 months Postdoc for international ANR project M/F
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2025
1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
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Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...
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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....
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Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals
Abstract. Although the organisational aspects of scholarly journals—such as the types of organisations responsible for publishing individual journals, whether independently or in collaboration—have si...
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OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
New article in Katina Magazine: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?' Intended as an intervention into the ongoing discussions & activity around #DiamondOA to bring books into focus, the authors want to foster further conversations on this topic & invite feedback. Comment yours below 👇
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How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?
As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of d...
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clockssarchive.bsky.social @clockssarchive.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A real treat! Mikael Laakso is doing a talk on digital preservation and #OA publications!! @mikaellaakso.bsky.social 🎤 “Long-Term Preservation of Open Access Publications: Facts, Current Practices, and Future Outlook” by Mikael Laakso 👉 Register here: unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...
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Alicia Wise @wisealic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📢 New in UKSG Insights: A model to help publishers implement globally fair and transparent pricing | Discover practical ideas to make pricing more equitable across regions. 👉 Read more: insights.uksg.org/articles/10.... #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing @lorraineestelle.bsky.social
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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Happy to announce the soft launch of DoLS - the Directory of Learned Societies, an open, growing database of learned societies and their journals worldwide, facilitating visibility, networking, and community-building! Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...
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European Diamond Capacity Hub @eudch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hosting a #DiamondOA event? Share it on the #EDCHForum! It’s easy: 🗨️ Create a topic ➕ Click “Create event” 🔗 Add details (Zoom, registration, etc.) It appears in the shared calendar! Stay connected 👉 buff.ly/twPYd9q #OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicEvents
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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus - 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages - 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages - Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata - Noncommercial early-access release huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
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institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It is that time of the year again 🎉Walt Crafword's most recent comprehensive review of the composition of journals and articles by journals included in the DOAJ is out. APC-based article volumes keep consistently growing while no-fee/Diamond journals are largely stagnant in terms of growth.
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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our latest book - "The Open Science Cookbook," edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee - is a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research. bit.ly/3ZnmRKA #openscience
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The Open Science Cookbook
ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting ope...
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Mika Holopainen @mholopa.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Tuore Signum 2/2025 painottuu #avointiede teemoihin. Mukana @mikaellaakso.bsky.social haastattelu. Lisäksi aiheina mm. JYX #julkaisuarkisto, #Annif automaattisen asiasanoituksen osuvuus, #robotiikka, ja kirjastojen rooli #teknologiakehitys ja #TKI-investoinnit suuntaamisessa. journal.fi/signum
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Kuva 10-tahoisesta nopasta ja teksti:

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Osallistu tutkimukseen:

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Tutkimus on tarkoitettu vähintään 15-vuotiaille suomalaisille tai Suomessa asuville miehille.

Kuvan alareunassa on Tampereen yliopiston logo.
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
If you're interested in learning more about #Collaboration in #DiamondOA publishing (successes & failures!), why not read the #DIAMAS report @mikaellaakso.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1509...
Blue background. Sustainability Toolsuite in a yellow text box. Multicoloured European Diamond Capacity Hub logo in the top right hand corner. White and yellow DIAMAS logo in bottom left hand corner. Collaboration in Diamond Open Access publishing in a yellow text box with a shadow behind it and a black and yellow loudspeaker.
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Next week is going to be fun! Join the web stream to take part in this conference that is happening on Tuesday next week.
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We showed that non-English papers receive citations largely from the same language, indicating that conservaiton evidence rarely crosses #languagebarriers. Having an English abstract = more English citations. 2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations! doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Language patterns of citations of articles in all non-English languagesRelationship between the number of same-language citations of a conservation article (citations from articles of the same language as the cited article) and the number of English-language citations (citations from English-language articles) received by non-English-language articles with (blue, n = 140) and without (orange, n = 79) an English-language abstract
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025
Data sources used in bibliometrics 1978–2022: From proprietary databases to the great wide open - Lindelöw - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology - Wiley Online Library asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi…
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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Science is under attack. In this post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and I detail events around 5 types of threats, and we propose a resilience model to safeguard scientific communities and open infrastructures. upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...
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The resilience of open science in times of crisis
The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons". Read more ⬇️ openfuture.eu/publication/...
"Governing the scholarly AI Commons" report cover with Open Future background image.
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Here is a short video introduction to my research topics produced by Tampere University. I think it is nice that these are being made for researchers to put faces and voices to otherwise static faculty listings. Slow motion library antics included 🐢📚💻. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPi...
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Preprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? How does this vary by discipline and region? Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, I just published article answering these questions. osf.io/preprints/so...
Adoption of preprinting per discipline and region
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Natascha Chtena @nataschachtena.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
1/5🧵After a long trip through peer review limbo, our paper on inclusion and public participation in Open Science policy is finally out! 📖 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Towards an inclusive Open Science: examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas | Royal Society Open Science
National, international and organizational Open Science (OS) policies are being formulated to improve and accelerate research through increased transparency, collaboration and better access to scienti...
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Helsinki University Library @hulib.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
What did 2024 look like from the perspective of #OpenScience? Annual review topics include diamond OA channels, award-winning open educational resources, publishers' AI agreements, a lawsuit against major publishers and Plan S impact assessment: blogs.helsinki.fi/thinkopen/op... #openaccess
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Open science annual review 2024: news from Finland and abroad
The Open Science Annual Review brings together news from Finland and abroad for 2024. The domestic news summarises national open science policies, highlights award-winning open educational resources a...
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This new preprint by @najko.bsky.social is really interesting for anyone into bibliometric data quality and/or hybrid open access through transformative agreements.
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: journals that adopt predatory practices after being acquired — My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @abalkina.bsky.social, @albertomartin.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social
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Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.
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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Our paper "Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations" was published today in Scientometrics: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Thank you Emanuel Kulczycki, @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social for the great collaboration!
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Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations - Scientometrics
This study explores ways of identifying learned societies within the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a type of organization that so far lacks its own category within the registry. Despite their ...
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is not a big problem - neither for open access or the world more largely - but why do I often see open access e-books that do not enable download of the whole book as a single file? Here is an interesting book I want to read but neither JSTOR or De Gruyter provide this doi.org/10.2307/jj.1...
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Helsinki University Library @hulib.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cosmologist Syksy Räsänen opened the debate on the future of scholarly publishing on the Think Open blog in November 2023, and now he summarises the discussion so far with comments: blogs.helsinki.fi/thinkopen/fu... #openaccess #openscience #overlayjournals
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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD student in the history of science - Uppsala University
PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
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