Article by Libfocus guest author Holly Meade-Kennedy. Holly works within the Irish academic library sector and is passionate about social ju...

Join us for an in-person seminar dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the diversity and impact of UCC’s Open Access journals on Tuesday 21 October 2025, during International...

Join us for the launch of Navigating Open Research, a new national guide designed to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland. Inspired by similar initiatives in France and the...

With Prof Paul Vickers from Northumbia University

With the agreement, Wiley becomes Perplexity's first education partner, creating new pathways for educational institutions to interact with trusted scholarly resources through AI search.

Join the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Library and the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) for the launch of the Ussher Bird Notes Digital Archive! This event will provide...

Join us for Day 2* of the library games event where we will dive into the world of gamification to explore how it could be used in teaching, learning, and engagement within...

Please note this is an online event which will take place on Teams. The Teams liink will be sent out in the calendar entry when you register and in a reminder email before the...

The conceptual framework of open research has historically been shaped around quantitative, confirmatory research informed by a...

Nick Wise had a prolific start to his sleuthing journey. In July 2021, the fluid dynamics researcher started looking for tortured phrases in published papers, and has since had a hand in at least 1…

After recent reporting that three UK universities had ended their transitional open access agreements with the publisher Elsevier, Peter Barr explains why academic libraries are making these decisi…

Want to know what everyone else has been reading on this year? This review counts down the ten most read posts on the LSE Impact Blog in 2024. Still want more blogposts? You can find all our annual…

A paper mill offered me $250,000 per year

Interview with Tadhg Dennehy

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The defining characteristic of “scientific” journals classified as predatory is that they publish almost anything for a fee. The problem of predatory journals and publishers is neither recent nor g…