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…

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

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.

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.

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...

💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated ✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky

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...

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...

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...

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.

"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

My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Reminder about next week's online panel. www.psu.edu/news/univers...

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

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.

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...

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.

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....

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 👇

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...

📢 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

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/...

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

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...

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.

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

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

📣 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...

📣 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...

Mies! Oletko vähintään 15 ja suomalainen tai Suomessa asuva? Osallistutko pelikulttuuriin esim. pelaamalla video-, rooli-, lauta- tai miniatyyripelejä, katsomalla pelivideoita tai vaikkapa cossaamalla? Tervetuloa vastaamaan kyselyyn pelikulttuurista ja mieheydestä osoitteessa bit.ly/pelikulttuuri

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...

Next week is going to be fun! Join the web stream to take part in this conference that is happening on Tuesday next week.

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...

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 https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.25018

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...

🤖 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/...

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...

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...

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...

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

This new preprint by @najko.bsky.social is really interesting for anyone into bibliometric data quality and/or hybrid open access through transformative agreements.

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

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!

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...

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

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/...

New preprint from Team Open Science in Developing Countries: osf.io/preprints/ps... Open science movement has transformed research landscape, but its impact has largely been confined to developed countries 🗺️ More is needed to support OS in developing countries 🧵👇

We're advertising another postdoc on @morphss.bsky.social. This is a two-year position at Sheffield working on open research practices in the social sciences (particularly data sharing) with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD201/r...

🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Are preprints reshaping journal publishing—or being absorbed into it? Our new paper in JDoc examines the dynamics at play! 👀 With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social, & Irene Pasquetto 📖 doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... (1/🧵)

RECRUITING: The @copim.bsky.social project is looking for somebody to work full time (until end April 2026) on archiving and preservation of #OABooks. Based at Loughborough Uni vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Closing date 3 March