The latest from #UKSGInsights - Research integrity and open access models: insights from Retraction Watch and OpenAlex by Ben Rawlins, @universityofky.bsky.social dub.sh/fS3Q6nQ

Our friends at @orcid.org have shared a helpful new video about what your ORCID record can do for you. The research ecosystem works best when everything connects and we'd encourage our authors to give this a watch to learn more about ORCID records. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZv...

Today I officially notified all the Crick researchers that we're winding down all our TAs, alongside already not paying for hybrid APCs. The Crick is going fully gold, diamond and green. None of this hanging around for publishers to change.

I'm really sorry to hear this news. The Research Professional team are excellent and have helped the HE and research sector keep up with what is happening. We will be less intelligent without it. Good luck to individual staff members affected, who are excellent writers and journos.

Don't forget - our revamped Open Educational Resources seminar is next week! Details and registration here: www.uksg.org/events/oer26/

Thank you :) And thank you for a great webinar. I started off (with the first half of the #UKSGwebinar) here.

Good thread (thanks @alicecann.bsky.social !) on our webinar this lunchtime "Minimising the environmental harm of AI through principle thinking" and @universitypress.cambridge.org forward- (and deep-) thinking work in this area. Recording will be available soon for all to view.

As part of our Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice Project​ we are running a short(ish!) survey. If you are a UK academic librarian or research manager please do consider responding

Ramazan Turgut, Managing Editor at DOAJ, has written a post which tells you all about Think. Check. Submit. If you have never tried our decision-support tools, please take a look at his excellent description. bit.ly/4gv5O2D

The latest from #UKSGInsights: are Transformative Agreements a sustainable path to open access, or simply a redistribution of costs? Article by Johanna Sall (@ki.se) and Sara Parmhed (@sodertornshogkola.bsky.social) dub.sh/HGhJrU2

In today's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social: @9thprime.bsky.social @tashamc.bsky.social & Monica Westin @universitypress.cambridge.org report on a recent workshop on provenance, citation & usage in AI systems. (Spoiler: the solution starts w/standards!)

To clarify, at the request of our Steering Group, we are looking for individual rather than institutional responses. If you would like to preview the survey questions, you can do so here: www.informationpower.co.uk/open-access-... @rluk.ac.uk @uksg.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social @copim.bsky.social

🎉We have officially re-launched our Service Providers Program. Do you 🫵 provide tools that support registration of rich metadata for Crossref members’ records? Read more about the new program and how to apply on our blog 🔗 doi.org/10.64000/yep... #CrossrefServiceProviders #CommunityManagement

Springer Nature to divest their consumer media businesses, including Scientific American group.springernature.com/gp/group/med...

Calling all UK academic librarians & research support folks! Please complete this survey to inform strategic priorities for long-form #OA and areas where support could have the greatest impact - thank you! www.surveymonkey.com/r/Long-formOA @rluk.ac.uk @jisc.bsky.social @ukri.org @uksg.bsky.social

One of the questions that @tashamc.bsky.social gets fairly often is about when Release 5 will be retired. It depends on what you mean by retired, so she's put up a post to explain: www.countermetrics.org/retire-r5/

Does anyone have any concrete examples of scholar-led publishers being acquired by commercial publishers? I think I have a journal title or two from institutionally supported publications (@edinburghdiamond.bsky.social). Asking 4a friend.

Our latest from #UKSGInsights: "Goals and evaluations of transformative agreements: an exploratory study of consortial approaches" by Monica Ward dub.sh/w6yFVfS

Don't forget to submit a proposal for @uksg.bsky.social 2027! The conference is in Glasgow from 5-7 April. We love proposals that give us something to take back to our day jobs, whether that's a hot tip on managing up or practical suggestions for setting AI policy. www.uksg.org/news/2026/05...

Free UKSG webinar: "Driving progress, driving impact: practical SDG Action Tips for the Scholarly Communications community" | dub.sh/NciBAEJ

Don't forget! Deadline is 17 July 2026

Catch up with @uksg.bsky.social Insights case study from Oxford 👉 Establishing a workflow for assessing #OA business models 🔗 buff.ly/TQRU7fI Read the references! @alittleroad.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social 2-part blog encourages institutions to support collective funding for #OA books

A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that naturalist #DavidAttenborough has worked on in his career (1954-present). “Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you’re looking for.” #HowCoolIsThat

Thank you!

UKSG is seeking to recruit someone with expertise in content management and metadata to lead our content taxonomy creation and application project. Read more here: www.uksg.org/news/2026/06...

Day 2 today! See you there :)

"Taken together, they narrow almost every channel by which research findings may be shared: the conference, the learned society, the journal and the press release." @rschrobuk.bsky.social

Welcome to our latest member - @sks-knowledge.bsky.social - we look forward to working with you! Interested in joining UKSG? www.uksg.org/join/

UK impose legal requirement for Google search to allow publishers to opt out of having their content appear in Google’s AI summaries, while German court rules that Google can be held liable for false information that appears in its AI overviews publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/deve...

New FREE UKSG webinar: "Minimising the environmental harm of AI through principle thinking". Led by Andri Johnston and Daniel Schien dub.sh/9uOJpyO

One of the best reflections of why the knowledge community needs to come together in spaces like @uksg.bsky.social and not stick to our silos, from Dr Tiberius Ignat: www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

Our article on Peer Community In and its journal Peer Community Journal is out!!🎉 I am so proud to have been part of it 😊Dive in to learn all about this alternative publishing model: doi.org/10.1629/uksg... @peercommunityin.bsky.social @peercomjournal.bsky.social

All recorded content from #UKSG2026 is now available to registered participants - you should have received an email to confirm your account 📩

And if you're interested in exploring this topic more, check out our plenary session at #UKSG2026 Recording now available to registered participants via underline.io/events/529/r... 📽️ @uksg.bsky.social @kirahopkins.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social

The latest from #UKSGInsights "Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: a two-step diamond OA process giving research communities back control of publishing" by Barbara Class, Denis Bourquet and Thomas Guillemaud dub.sh/cfTzIZS @barbaraclass.bsky.social @tguillemaud.bsky.social

@uksg.bsky.social conference videos are live, and the @countermetrics.bsky.social conference is happening this afternoon, so there's lots of new information for me to get my teeth into!

My @uksg.bsky.social presentation 'Han Solo needs a hug: What fandom communities can teach scholarly publishing' is now available online, for those existing in the narrow intersection of librarianship, scholarly comms, and fandom!

Hurrah - all attendees for #UKSG2026 can now access the presentations from the conference! Please check your email inbox for details on how. For non-delegates there is a small fee - details here: dub.sh/B0IfXuv Our thanks to our friends at Underline for their support

Top leaders at the American Diabetes Association have resigned in wake of the huge outpouring of support for the 5 scientists — incl an ADA flagship journal editor — that the ADA forcibly removed from the annual meeting for disturbing an editorial from the ADA’s own flagship journal.

Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Our Graduate Engagement Leads, @katievernon.bsky.social, @luqmanmuraina.bsky.social and Yorgos Paschos, reflect on their work developing open research communities of practice at York 🔓 📄 doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

'Seeing the impact and benefits of OR [open research] on the community has inspired us to practice these principles.' A new article, co-authored by myself, Yorgos Paschos and @luqmanmuraina.bsky.social, has been published in @uksg.bsky.social 🥳 insights.uksg.org/articles/10....

Don't forget! Deadline is 17 July 2026

The latest from #UKSGInsights: Interdisciplinary collaboration for open research: reflections by Graduate Engagement Leads by Katie Vernon, Yorgos Paschos and Luqman Muraina from @uoylibrary.bsky.social dub.sh/UFKM2yf

Our Think. Check. Submit. slides are now available in Spanish! The deck covers: ✔️ The problem of predatory publishing ✔️ An introduction to Think. Check. Submit. ✔️ Free resources to help researchers publish with confidence Many thanks to Jackeline Alger for the translation. bit.ly/4xkwOYw

Last call for you to join us as Associate Director in charge of Publishing Services! If you are questioning yourself, you should apply anyway! Many folks opt out of applying for roles like this because they think they are not good enough. Give yourself a chance!

There have been a couple of press releases this week about @countermetrics.bsky.social compliance (or "conformance", which is a new one on me). To the lovely librarians asking me whether those publishers are actually compliant, this reminder is for you!

Welcome to our latest new member - @nescollege.bsky.social - we look forward to working with you and supporting your work!

The latest from #UKSGInsights: Establishing a workflow for assessing open monograph business models: a case study from Oxford by David Watson @bodleian.ox.ac.uk dub.sh/Vnr7mZQ

@brieferyet.bsky.social - do you have an archive of all past issues? We are trying to get a whole article in issue 86, but can only seem to find a snippet with no links. Thanks!