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Ross Mounce

@rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund. Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right. Fellow […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@rmounce, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Serious kudos to the Royal Institution (aka The RI). Lovely of them to provide an excellent air-conditioned working space with free WiFi in uber-expensive central London, during the summer holidays. Makes it easy for parents to get work done whilst the kids […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
A selfie of me in front of a poster about the Urenco Young Scientist Centre, inside the Royal Institution
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
me: define the word 'stationary' (for my daughter) Google AI overview: Stationery is a noun that means writing materials. This includes paper, envelopes, pens, pencils, and notebooks. Always interesting to see examples in which LLMs fail at really simple tasks.
define: stationary
 AlOverview
(+) stationery
/'sterfon(a)ri/
Stationery is a noun that means writing materials. This includes paper, envelopes, pens,
pencils, and notebooks. @ Cambridge Dictionary +1
Common Types
« Writing paper and matching envelopes
+ Notebooks and notepads
« Pens, pencils, and markers
« Business letterheads and cards @ Cambridge Dictionary +3
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
There are definitely benefits to being a smaller sized university press publisher... For example when @lsepress.bsky.social puts out a book I actually pay attention to it a) it's open access so I can actually read it b) they're not publishing a flood of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Cover image for the new open access book: "Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline After Ron Johnston"
Part of the RGS-IBG Book Series series. The cover is mostly black and white featuring an image of Prof Johnston surrounded by books and papers.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
Cool to see Arcadia up there in the $5million PLUS bracket, awarded to the Wikimedia Endowment wikimediaendowment.org
Breakdown of the highest levels of financial contributors to the Wikimedia Endowment
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
@lsepress.bsky.social who knew the LSE law school had a half pipe in the entrance hallway? 🛹 🪄 I have plans... 🤣
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026
I’m sure most sane people would fix a half torn rucksack strap with needle and thread 🪡 but me... I love my staple gun 🤣 let’s see how long this fix lasts...
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
Some simple spreadsheet research using @OpenAlex and the R package openalexR Counting from 2020 to 2025, there have been over 58,000 items published under the Subscribe to Open model and it's roughly doubling every year. #S2O #SubscribeToOpen
Spreadsheet screenshot of items published under the Subscribe to Open model
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
love this graphic. source: www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-li…
The Microsoft logo but modified to be "Microslop" with a vomit emoji and a melting emoji
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
I just declined to review for a paywalled/hybrid Wiley journal... and was given absolutely no means of communicating why I declined in the process. Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!) I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Thank you for letting us know
We hope you will review for Wiley Research
Publishing in the future. If you want any more
information, or would like to submit a review for
this article, then please contact us at
reviewhelp@wiley.com.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026
Campus selfie (weather really not great 🌧️)
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025
Visiting Slovenia next Easter. Anyone been? Looking for inspo...
Me holding a Lonely Planet guide to Slovenia
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025
Ah Microsoft Outlook... is email really that hard?

Microsoft Outlook is trying to recover your
information...
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
Anyone good at getting Android phones to do slightly unusual things? Read on... When I attach this to my Nothing 3a Pro phone, it kinda works... the USB-A for instance works - I can read&write to a thumb drive. But I can’t get it to use Internet via RJ45 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Photo of the box of my multifunctional USB-C adapter
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
Great to see the inclusivity & recognition of @OpenAlex improve with the recent 'Walden' (codename) data update. You can compare old vs. new data at the OREO site (OpenAlex Rewrite Eval Overview) oreo.openalex.org The screenshot I'm looking at here […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Works Count Increased (5%
The works_count field increased by 5% or more in 53% of countries
(=)
‘Showing 1-20 of 130 changed countries (53% of our 246-country sample)
Classic ‘Walden
Nigeria Nigeria
works_count: 438,448 works_count: 525,828
Czechia Czechia
works_count: 695,844 works_count: 972,899
Lao People's Democratic Republic Lao People's Democratic Republic
6,884 works 7,479 works
works_count: 6,884 works_count: 7,479
Cameroon Cameroon
works_count: 60,357 works_count: 65,888
Guam Guam
works_count: 3,598 works_count: 4,142
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
Imagine a university in a wealthy country where less than 50% of the recent research output is openly accessible to the public? 😢
bottom of the CWTS rankings of US universities by %OA
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
lots of room for improvement at US universities on open access. Rockefeller & Caltech doing the best at the moment? MIT, unsurprisingly high-up the US leaderboard 👍
leaderboard of US universities by %open access
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
eyeballing the new CWTS Leiden university rankings from an open access perspective... Indonesian universities dominate the top 100 (of most OA universities), with >95% open access. It goes to show that when a country system isn't embroiled in the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of the top 13 universities by percentage of outputs that are open access. All but one are Indonesian universities.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
Doing some light "research" on Grokipedia. It's not enough to just laugh it. I've gotta try it out to see it for myself... So I looked up the article on Cheese. grokipedia.com/page/Cheese Lots of immediately obvious errors/issues including: * […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
screenshot of mis-rendered ?markdown? so that the table is not visualised where it is meant to be a table
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025
RED ALERT. Wiley's servers are down. You cannot now access knowledge timestamp: 2025-10-14 10.21am (British Summer Time) 🙃 #WIleyDown
Wiley Online Library
This site is currently unavailable
We apologize for any inconvenience while we work to restore access as soon as possible.
Web server is down
The web server is not returning a connection. As a result, the web page is not displaying.
« Ray ID: 98e5fdb750e2ef4d
« Your IP address: (redatced)
« Error reference number: 521
« Cloudflare Location: London
If you require help please Contact Customer Service.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025
Uncovering further AI-made, not sufficiently human-checked, graphical abstracts in Elsevier journals. Note the background colour. Which GenAI tool often gives that background colour? ➡️ CONCERNN ➡️ SURRUCE WATR further issues in the rest of the paper too […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
CONCERNN

SURRUCE WATR
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025
If y'all thought the graphical abstract was wacky. Wait til you see Figure 6 I've highlighted at the bottom (in yellow squiggle) where extra text has been badly cropped off. The whole figure is complete nonsense. I wonder if the authors are doing a Sokal type hoax?
Surface Erosion Resistance ~~ Pollination ~~ Microclimate ~~ Landscape
Water Index Service Regulation Aesthetic
Regulation Potential Value
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025
Elsevier "hybrid" journal called _Ecological Modelling_ which charges an APC of USD 3,040 (excluding taxes)... ...publishes THIS abomination as a graphical abstract. 🤣 Source: Zhao et al (2025) Designing Ecological Networks to Foster Regional Economic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
gibberish graphical abstract clearly made by some gen AI model
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025
Like "Linux on the Desktop" will 2025 be the year that academics finally realise that choosing to publish with Elsevier isn't a good idea? key quote from Elsevier rep: "rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
1) Have authors consented to these hyperlinks in their scientific articles?
~The topic page is a functionality of ScienceDirect, to improve user
experience, as rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is
no consent needed from authors.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
Urgh. Look at this dodgy journal marketing from IWA Publishing: No Author Fees* *No author fees: where institutionally supported, for authors from low-income countries, or for articles with significant societal impact I think what IWA Publishing meant to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
 No Author Fees*
A comprehensive assessment of drinking water quality using LC
the water quality index V/ Official Journal of the
Identification of potential zones for water detention reservoirs International Water
in a semi-arid environment: a sustainability perspective Association
Leak localization in water distribution networks using fusion Nn
assifer techniques v/ Indexed in Scopus and DOA]
Water management resilience analysis tool - a software for n Po
imple Submission Pr
criticality analysis in water distribution networks v s ple Submissio ocess
+ Fast Publication
*No author fees: where institutionally supported, for
authors from low-income countries, or for articles with
significant societal impact.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025
is this "platinum open access" ?? Maybe we can all just choose our own meanings for words from now on? Up means down and right means left?
Open Access Processing Charges
At eContent Pro International Press, we are dedicated to providing affordable, high-quality open access book
publishing. Our cost structure is designed to support authors and editors while maintaining rigorous editorial and
production standards. The Book Processing Charges (BPCs) cover the full cost of publishing a complete book and
are typically funded by a sponsoring institution or grant, allowing authors and editors to publish at no personal
expense.
eContent Pro International Press offers highly affordable BPCs, among the lowest in academic publishing. Our
BPCs are determined based on the length of the book:
Word Count Cost (USD)
70,000-100,000 $9,000*
125,001-150,000 $14,000
*Most open access books fall within this range.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025
Weird side-benefit of in-person attendance at conferences... access to paywalled material even a month after you were on campus. No "hacking" on my part. I wonder how long it will last? #OpenAccess
You have full access to this article via Université de Lausanne.
Download PDF
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025
Read of the day: Clark J, Zuccala E (2025) Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(6): e0004673. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004673 "Eight years ago Elsevier stood out among publishers, with a median pay gap […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Elsevier's gender pay gap in the UK remains consistently above every other publisher across the entire 8-year period
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025
the amusement from trying to use AI for low-stakes creativity continue... Prompt: The four letters B O A I in an impressive way Results generated: Not one contains those four letters asked for 🙃
The four letters B O A l in an impressive way

 Bing Image Creator

Results include colourful graphics containing:

BOOE
BPDE
B
and B??O
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025
whereas, I don't even get served an AI summary when I type in [surname] [model name] with Direct To Open. Maddening inconsistency!
Google Brand Direct To Open D20 

[1] MIT Press
hitps://mitpress. mitedu > News §
MIT Press's Direct to Open (D20) continues expanding ...
27 Aug 2024 — D20 empowers authors so that they can reap the benefits of publishing their work open
access regardless of their—or their institution's—ability ...
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025
Je vous présente: "Grady Opening the Future" AI summaries in search engine result pages... 🤣 The man, the myth, the legend Tom Grady has been merged into the word soup model. A statistically-likely word that probabilistically fits. Let's just hope CEO's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
AI Overview:

"Grady Opening the Future” refers to a collective funding
model for open access (OA) monographs, particularly 
those published by university presses. It's a model where 
libraries subscribe to packages of non-OA books, and the 
revenue generated from these subscriptions is then used to 
fund new OA monographs. This ensures that new books are
made freely available to readers while also providing libraries with access to a
valuable backlist of existing titles.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025
Spot the amusing typo (yes I know the plural of ass is actually asses but... it’s more funny if you just go with it) Cold bottoms 🥶 [not going to link to it as it will inevitably be corrected very soon...]
The UK has sanctioned two Israeli far-right ministers over comments they made on Gaza. Itamar Ben-Gir and Bezalel Smotrich will both face a travel ban and have their assess frozen as part of the measures announced by the UK foreign secretary.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025
Rafael Luque in the news again... cen.acs.org/people/Russia-honors-ch… No mention of Elsevier's role in his prodigious output 🤷‍♂️ #Elsevier #ScienceFraud #Russia
A screenshot of Rafael Luque's google scholar profile as of April 2023, the Elsevier logo has been added in next to each item to more clearly indicate who is the publisher of each of the journal items.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025
ChatGPT managed to find 5/20 wikidata Q numbers, after nearly 2 minutes of reasoning. Hardly helpful. 🙃
Here's a CSV mapping the 20 1SSNs to their Wikidata Q-numbers (blank where no Wikidata item could be identified):


issn, wikidata
1755-2923, Q6773889
1746-0719,Q6773912
2047-7726, Q86735216
2164-0583,
21537891,
es20-1297,
ws7-6234,
wss-2272,
2574-1300,
2045-6725,
2150-5298,
161.7362,
exss-77,qus7ie1er
esss-c2a2,
752-2285,
os25-4597,
o00-6361,Q752075
es73-5348,
162.3377,
arss-seax,
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025
Prompt: "What is the wikidata Q number of the journal associated with this ISSN: 1755-2923" DeepSeek: The Wikidata Q number for the journal with ISSN 1755-2923 (Anthropological Journal of European Cultures) is: Q104857253 Ross: WRONG! That Q number is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
What is the wikidata Q number of the journal associated with this ISSN: 1755-2923
@ The Wikidata Q number for the journal with ISSN 1755-2923 (Anthropological Journal of European
Cultures) is:
Q104857253
You can verify this on Wikidata:
& https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104857253

CSV Format:

ov © copy & Download

ISSN, Wikidata Q ID

1755-2923, 0104857253
Let me know if you need Wikidata Q numbers for any other ISSN!
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
What a brilliant advert for open source software. Today, the lead article on the BBC News website: “Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm8lmz… #OpenSource #PublicIT
Why the Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system. Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025
Love this #OpenScience artwork :heart_fire: La ciencia es de Todos (en: Science belongs to everyone) Credit: Vera Morales & Ivonne Khuri Source: Galeria Virtual: "Diseñar el derecho a la ciencia" saberesenterritorio.conusur.org.ar/… Found […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
en: "As Latin American women, we aspire, through our participation and our poster, to promote and strengthen how "human rights-based approaches to science" can contribute to making science communication functional for citizen empowerment and collaborate as a practical tool to continue implementing the transformative power of inclusive science."

es: "Como mujeres latinoamericanas, aspiramos con nuestra participación y con nuestro afiche a promover y fortalecer cómo "los enfoques de la ciencia basados en los derechos humanos" pueden contribuir para que la comunicación de la ciencia resulte funcional al empoderamiento de la ciudadanía y colabore como una herramienta práctica para seguir implementando el poder transformador de la ciencia inclusiva.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025
The picture by discipline is also very interesting... Religion and Theology scholars take note! OpenAlex has significantly better coverage of OA journals in this area. (I bet Religion and Theology scholars are already aware that Scopus and Web of Science do […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
OA journal coverage of Scopus, Web of Science, and OpenAlex, split by discipline.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025
Asian journals hugely underrepresented in Scopus and WoS relative to OpenAlex. Journals from Oceania "over-represented" in all three. I wonder how/why that happens? Scopus and Web of Science actually care about ANZ representation?
Bar chart comparing the relative coverage of Open Access journals in Scopus, Web of Science, and OpenAlex, broken out by continent.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025
...and it all pulls through into my profile page, in the KC Works section. Nice.
KCWorks
* Journal article
+ The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): Bringing Open-Source Software Practices to the Scholarly Publishing
Community for Authors, Reviewers, Editors, and Publishers (2025-02-04)
+ Open access and altmetrics: Distinct but complementary (2013-04-15)
* Blog post
+ Web of Science can't handle innovation (2024-11-18)
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025
Testing out Knowledge Commons by uploading some of my works there... I like it! Nice to be able to re-use my blog posts that have DOI's and have a platform that recognises that blog posts _can_ have DOI's works.hcommons.org/records/z0ktf-ne… What […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Blog post || Metadata-onty
Publisher: Ross Mounce 
Published in: A Blog by Ross Mounce, 2024.
Languages: English 
Imprint: United Kingdom
Publication date: November 18, 2024
Ross Mounce
700 words.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2025
Thanks Barclays for confirming I'll get an Amazon Gift Card of "£null" in value for opening up a credit card with you. I feel very reassured about your cybersecurity... 🙃 #Error #NullError
Young black lady wearing a brown leather jacket, with a perfect smile, raising her hands in celebration. On a blue background there is text saying "Congratulations! Barclaycard have approved your card application". Also on the image there is text stating "£null Amazon Gift Card"
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025
Imagine paying a $3,750 APC and then also choosing to pay an extra $5,000 to have someone (or some LLM?) write a plain language summary of your work for you. I know this is April Fool's Day but this is actually real 🤯 source […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Externally peer-reviewed articles, e.g:
« Meta-Analysis
« Methodology
« Perspective
+ Protocol 
« Research Article
« Review
« Short Report
« Systematic Review

$3,750

Non-externally peer-reviewed articles $1875

Plain Language Summary of Publication $5,000"
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2025
reading: Open But Hidden: Open Access Gaps in the National Science Foundation Public Access Repository Figure 3 very interesting. CHORUS members like AIP & Wiley making it arguably harder to find free access to full texts of NSF funded research :( […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Breakdown of Full Text Availability by Publisher

Figure 3. Breakdown of full text availability from the top 10 publishers of associated NSF-PAR records.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2025
I found this ?cocoon? / ?egg mass? in Xiamen botanical garden (Fujian Province, China) last week. It's up on iNaturalist. Anyone have any idea what it might be? It's really quite distinctive...! uk.inaturalist.org/observations/257… #iNaturalist #iNat #China
Crazy cocoon on the underside of tree bark, in Xiamen botanical garden. It looks a bit like mashed banana, but with an intricate lacing over the top of it, protecting the mash (the cocoon).
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025
Spotted this excellent book on my travels, translated into Chinese, in a Ningbo (Zhejiang province) bookstore. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl Bergstrom and @jevinwest Publisher: CITIC Press (state-owned) ISBN […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Me, holding-up a Chinese-language version of the Calling Bullshit book in paperback. It has a yellow cover with a light blue paint splash on it containing the title words in English.
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2024
Cool. Mastodon _not_ blocked in mainland China it seems?
Photo of a Shanghai Maglev train ticket
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2024
Happy Christmas $RELX I know exactly who I'm paying when I pay Reed Exhibitions Limited for a ticket, so I do my best to pay as little as possible and so I'm booking the "early bird" price ticket. 😐 See you there? #LondonBookFair
11-13 March 2025 LONDON BOOK FAIR Olympia, London. The London Book Fair A confirmation email has been sent to...
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2024
@mike It might be specific to my instance, I don't really know. Here's what it looks like - it appeared in my stream. Great UX/UI, very slick.
Your 2024 #Wrapstodon awaits! Unveil your year's highlights and memorable moments on Mastodon!
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2024
I love this #Wrapstodon feature (Year in Review). No surprises what my most used hashtag is!
SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT . The European Mathematical Society, working with research libraries, have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, without the need for author- side fees (no APCs!). Bravo (@EuroMathSoc +364 followers  ) Feb 06,2024, 11:12AM - @ - Web 233 boosts - 279 favorites
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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2024
I'm genuinely impressed with how many wrong things Scopus (Elsevier) can state about a journal... www.scopus.com/sourceid/28442 This page appears to amalgamate information about 3 or more different journals into one mishmash * The U.S. periodical […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Source details Network Years currently covered by Scopus: from 1980 to 1981, from 1983 to 1999 (coverage discontinued in Scopus) Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) ISSN: 0093-3341 E-ISSN: 2673-8732 Subject area: Source type: Journal
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