Weekly Highlights May 1 - 8
- Scholarly Publishing (1-6)
- Open Access and OER (7-9)
- Digital Humanities (10-11)
- Conferences and Events (12-14)
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Intended Audience and Actual Distribution: A Growing Mismatch?
"Researchers write research articles for a primary audience of peer researchers and clinicians. But the actual distribution of these research articles has changed substantially. While once these articles were only readily available in the major research institutions that subscribed to the print journals in which they were published, today these research articles are increasingly distributed online at no expense to access. The result is a steadily growing mismatch between intended audience and actual distribution."
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/05/03/intended-audience-actual-distribution-growing-mismatch/ -
Will Resignations in Science Journals Expose Their Business Models?
THE editorial process has emerged as the most significant aspect of quality control in knowledge production in science and other subjects. Recently, 42 editors of two of its leading neuroscience journals resigned over failed negotiations to reduce the journal’s high Article Processing Charges (APC).
https://kashmirobserver.net/2023/04/29/will-resignations-in-science-journals-expose-their-business-models/ -
Wiley Removes Goodin as Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy (Updated)
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/27/wiley-removes-goodin-as-editor-of-the-journal-of-political-philosophy/ -
Saudi scientist tells colleagues, ‘Stop this academic fraud’
A new report by the SIRIS Academic consulting firm reveals the extent of this deceptive practice. For the last decade, 210 highly cited researchers from other countries have listed Saudi universities as their primary institutional affiliation.
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-04/saudi-scientist-tells-colleagues-stop-this-academic-fraud.html -
Carrots and Sticks: A Qualitative Study of Library Responses to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 Open Access Policy
insight for libraries responding to US initiatives such as the August 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memo directing the open publishing of federally funded research.
https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/25872 - 2 hour Open Science Round Table
Open Access and OER
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Levels of Open Access
"There are many kinds of open access, but they broadly fit into three categories: libre, which is open access that allows content to be free to read and generally, there are no barriers for reuse, gratis, which is open access that allows content to be free to read, but has barriers for reuse, and then there's one level (black) that fits into neither libre nor gratis".
https://github.com/nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science/discussions/454 -
Hindawi shuttering four journals overrun by paper mills
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/05/02/hindawi-shuttering-four-journals-overrun-by-paper-mills/ -
Webinar Towards equitable scholarly publishing for SDGs and beyond by UN/UNESCO Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/conceptnote_2023_stiforum_3.pdf
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The Dangers of Cognitive Bias in History
Historians claim the “social science” mantle only when it suits them, and most of the time they prefer to retreat under the umbrella of “the humanities”, which gives them a license to remain atheoretical.
https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/the-dangers-of-cognitive-bias-in-history/ -
(Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure, and participatory engagement: big dreams, big challenges.
Interested in the intersections between collections as data, cataloguing histories and critical archival studies, heritage infrastructures, critical digital heritage, and information science.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sloane-lab-online-symposium-series-2023-tickets-566626694697Conferences and events
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(Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure, and participatory engagement: big dreams, big challenges.
Interested in the intersections between collections as data, cataloguing histories and critical archival studies, heritage infrastructures, critical digital heritage, and information science.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sloane-lab-online-symposium-series-2023-tickets-566626694697 -
Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing Speaker Series
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GMoLS4E24 Internet As Knowledge with Donald Clark