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Research Data & Open Research //
#datalibs
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#Skybrarians
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8802-4589
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Alex Holcombe
about 14 hours ago
Journal editors can also help by encouraging inclusion of ORCiD numbers. 2. In manuscript submission systems, solicit identities, ORCIDs, and the contributions of acknowledgees in the same way as co-authors. We're interested in working with publication systems on this.
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maia arson crimew 🏴
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finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
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"The boosting of AI by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education [and] libraries... Fascism and AI... are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/
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Hannah Čulík-Baird
about 1 month ago
one thing that is so horrible about the AI interwoven into every medium of communication is the prompt to summarize. no, actually, I want to read closely and carefully the words which my beloveds are writing to me!
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Bryony Hooper
about 1 month ago
The next DigiPres North meeting is booked in for world digital preservation day
#WDPD25
Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy! If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message!
#digipres
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Kevin Sanders
about 1 month ago
Counterpoint: this is a net negative and more deeply entrenches Clarivate in the broader affinities of scholarly communications; ORCIDs and other PIDs are already (quite reasonably) contested, and such affinities will reduce confidence from many communities and participants.
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Kate O’Neill
about 1 month ago
Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics
doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
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Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector | Insights
https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.710
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View from my train window: a house decorated for Halloween, with a skeleton on the roof, cobweb netting stretched over the garden, and a giant England flag draped over the garage. 10/10 visual metaphor for the rotting empire lurching relentlessly on 🧟♂️ Spooky!
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Open Research, University of Sheffield
about 1 month ago
📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇
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📢 Come work with us! The Open Research Manager is a reformulated role in our team - it would suit someone with a strong research support background, but I'm happy to chat to anyone about the role and criteria.
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about 2 months ago
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Alex Holcombe
2 months ago
Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project!
osf.io/preprints/me...
If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.
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https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/2rp7s_v1?view_only=
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Reflecting on
#OpenFest25
, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇
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2 months ago
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Em Nunn
2 months ago
This was great from
@batoolmm.bsky.social
- not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons
#openfest25
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Finally,
@lesleyuttley.bsky.social
, who found 68 kinds of problems with systematic reviews, including lack of diversity in the review team: "a bad systematic review is worse than a non-review" because of the assumption of a gold standard
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
#OpenFest25
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2 months ago
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Now
@alicejanegibson.bsky.social
is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem
#OpenFest25
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2 months ago
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In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape
#OpenFest25
2 months ago
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Thanks to
@nickshepp.bsky.social
for posting links from our panel on recognising and attributing contributions to research
#OpenFest25
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3 months ago
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First up on
#OpenFest25
Day 2 is
@simonxix.com
and
@kjsanders.bsky.social
with a call to approach 'open' as a social process (rather than an end goal) to revive its original DIY radical ethos and practice
3 months ago
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Powerful presentation from
@lyndamk.bsky.social
of
@datarescueproject.org
on ongoing work to rescue and preserve digital and physical federal data targeted by the Trump administration
www.datarescueproject.org
#OpenFest25
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Data Rescue Project
Preserving public data
https://www.datarescueproject.org
3 months ago
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@emmawilson.bsky.social
on how challenges in finding+accessing research literature harms bibliographic diversity, ending with a key point: "proprietary [research information] systems don't work for us *as researchers*". How do you evaluate the lit. when you can't even read the abstracts?
#OpenFest25
3 months ago
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@drbeth.bsky.social
providing an overview of 25 years of 'open' and EDI in this space. Appreciated the critique of the ways peer review comments enforce nativism and epistemic hegemony (trans or feminist researchers told they are 'biased' must add more cis men to make the research more 'rigorous')
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3 months ago
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In the midst of seemingly overwhelming fascism and racism, sometimes it helps that we can do tiny things in our jobs to resist - so I'm very much looking forward to spending 4 days with people thinking about how to make research and publishing more equitable and inclusive
#OpenFest25
3 months ago
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Mike Dickison
3 months ago
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to
@ellenrykers.com
for pointing me to it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
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Open Research, University of Sheffield
3 months ago
OpenFest 2025 begins tomorrow! To whet your appetites, here's a new podcast from our colleagues (and chief organisers!) at Hallam on this year's theme: Open Research and Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (OR+EEDI)
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The Act's potential to restrict 'the open availability of any online content that the UK Gov deems to be "harmful".... impacts on us as publishers, technologists, and info professionals... small OA presses, libraries with online catalogues, metadata aggregators, or providers of publishing software'⬇️
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3 months ago
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Kate O’Neill
3 months ago
And lovely to see the data and code available under a CC0 licence too!
doi.org/10.5061/drya...
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Domi Smithson
3 months ago
In less than a month now, we will be launching our next OpenFest to discuss
#openresearch
filtered by the principles of
#EEDI
, the main theme of this year's event. Join us online!
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...
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Open Research, University of Sheffield
4 months ago
🔊Four weeks to go until OpenFest 2025! 🥳Join us ONLINE for sessions on building diverse and inclusive research cultures, recognition practices, publishing ecosystems, open research communities, and libraries. Full programme and registration links below:
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Emma Wilson
4 months ago
This is exactly why I’m sceptical of (particularly gen) AI in research discovery and evidence synthesis / systematic mapping. It enables bias and control under the guise of optimisation and efficiency. Just give me what I’ve searched for.
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"Journal editors play an important role in advancing open science in their respective fields... The Journal Editors Discussion Interface (JEDI,
dpjedi.org)..
. aims to increase uptake of open science at social science journals by providing journal editors with a space to learn and discuss."
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4 months ago
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Andy Tattersall
4 months ago
If you are a research team or organisation who has a bit of underspend before the end of July. Then consider investing some of it learning hands on skills and tools to communicate your research. Animations, podcasts, infographics, blogs, social media and more.
www.andytattersall.com/contact
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CaSDaR
4 months ago
🚨 Register:
t.ly/VEyBl
This townhall will present the current landscape of Data Stewardship in the UK, introduce the mission and goals of CaSDaR, gather your input on what support and recognition you need, and we will be launching our first funding call to support Data Stewardship initiatives!
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Hagen Blix
4 months ago
We should think of the "intelligence" in artificial intelligence not as any kind of mental property, but as the kind one gathers - the stuff of central intelligence agencies. Then we can immediately understand that AI is a technological form of Taylorism, a way for capital to accumulate power.
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A much better job advert than mine 😂 Come work with us! And Kate!
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4 months ago
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📣 We are recruiting for a fixed-term Research Data Steward in the University of Sheffield Library. Closing date 5 August, full details at the link below:
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
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Research Data Steward
Research Data Steward
https://jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research-Data-Steward/1221-en_GB
4 months ago
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Professor Caroline Edwards
4 months ago
Here’s the “Salmon of Steel” statue in Sheffield. Had a brilliant afternoon at the University of Sheffield, speaking with the Editors & Publishers Network. It reminded me how journals are a labour of love. We must withdraw our uncompensated labour from supporting unscrupulous commercial publishers.
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Open Research, University of Sheffield
4 months ago
🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis. 2-5 September - all welcome! This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. Read the programme & register here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
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OpenFest 2025
OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/events/openfest-2025
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This is really useful, including quick links to email your MP, and guidance on completing the consultation depending on if you have 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes to spare 🏳️⚧️ Deadline is 11.59pm tonight.
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5 months ago
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Open Research, University of Sheffield
5 months ago
The winners of the University of Sheffield’s 2025 Open Research Prize have now been announced - many congratulations to our prize winners in the staff, PGR and team categories. Read more about the winners and runners up here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
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Open Research Prize 2025 - winners and runners up
The winners of the University of Sheffield’s 2025 Open Research Prize have now been announced - many congratulations to our prize winners.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/home/open-research-prize
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Scottish Trans
5 months ago
Its the final day to complete the EHRC's consultation on their draft code of practice. If you want to fill it in and share your voice in support of trans inclusion, today’s your last chance! We've created a full guide w/ Mermaids & TransActual, on our website -
www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...
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Open Research, University of Sheffield
5 months ago
The recording of yesterday's Open Research Conversation on Open data, indigenous data sovereignty & the CARE principles is now available to view on the link below. Thanks so much to Jane Anderson; Paula Granados García & Emiliano Trere for a brilliant, thought-provoking session!
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Open Research Conversation:Open data, indigenous data sovereignty and the CARE principles
Recording of the following session, part of the 'Open Research Conversations' seminar series at the University of Sheffield (organised by the University Library, Scholarly Communications Team), held o...
https://doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.29300972.v1
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In a different building for work today, and there is some excellent signage:
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Andy Tattersall
5 months ago
For any journal editors based at
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
I am giving a short talk at an event tomorrow that explores 'Social media editing at academic journals: editorial pathways and media strategies' Wed, 11 Jun, 11:00 - 12:00 BST Register via the link
mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learn...
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Welcome - Realize Your Potential: Cornerstone
https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/0fcd613f-11c9-49d9-b7e5-47bef968d0de?session=a1051d36-ae73-4c98-95ef-ef09a3a1f1c1
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Open Research, University of Sheffield
5 months ago
🔊Coming up tomorrow (online, 11am): the role of social media editor positions as key entry points to academic editing, and the strategic importance of digital engagement in scholarly communications. With expertise from
@andytattersall.bsky.social
! TUoS staff and PGRs get in touch for the link 🙋🙋♀️
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In misty Manchester today for the Future of Practice Research Forum - looking forward to a day of talks and workshops on the opportunities and challenges for a national infrastructure for sharing practice research - and to catching up with former colleagues from Westminster!
5 months ago
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
6 months ago
Our slides are now up on Zenodo:
zenodo.org/records/1559...
Excited to talk about our work in the context of the wider intiatives!
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The Data Rescue Project and Wider Initiatives
In response to the removal of datasets and dismantling of statistical offices at the federal level in the U.S., a coalition of organizations has been working together to communicate and coordinate acr...
https://zenodo.org/records/15598141
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Day 2 of
@iassistdata.bsky.social
- looking forward to sessions on the FAIR and CARE Principles, data stewardship models, gender bias in job adverts for data professionals, the
@datarescueproject.org
and data 'sonification' from
@umnanda.bsky.social
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I've been too busy making notes to live tweet
@iassistdata.bsky.social
but what a rich day of conferencing - research data governance, data stewardship, metadata, secure data, repositories, the epistemologies of data... Enjoying getting to nerd out about data for a few days!
6 months ago
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Dryad
6 months ago
What's the most common reason Dryad Data Curators request revisions to submitted datasets? Insufficient README files. In this training session Senior Curator Bryan Gee covers tips & best practices for creating a README that meets best practice standards
#opendata
#openaccess
youtu.be/A5HqsamqpTo
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Make your data more usable: README Files with Dryad
A README file serves as a crucial component of data documentation, providing important context and instructions for understanding and utilizing the data. The...
https://youtu.be/A5HqsamqpTo
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I've been looking forward to this Open Research Conversation all year and making time to think about data colonialism and extractivism, meaningful co-production, and collective benefit: 'Open data, indigenous data sovereignty and the CARE principles', 11 June, sign up details below:
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