OUT NOW: Two Early Byzantine Bible Manuscripts in Christian Palestinian Aramaic by Kim Phillips explores the lost texts of Codex Climaci Rescriptus, revealing hidden CPA translations of the Pauline Epistles & Apostolos. A breakthrough for biblical & linguistic studies! #Byzantine #Manuscripts Read it here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0455

Webinar: Who owns data about your research? December 5, 2024 https://www.ub.uio.no/english/courses-events/events/open-science-lunch/2024-12-05.html

New study: "User tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical #library setting now happens routinely through #publisher #platforms."
https://zenodo.org/records/13886473

#Elsevier #Privacy #Publishers #ScienceDirect #SpringerNature #SpringerLink #Surveillance

Wow. Since when have Elsevier been putting part of the _reference list_ of each article behind the paywall? I don’t remember this being the norm.

“There are more references available in the full text version of this article.”

What a farce.

#Elsevier #shenanigans

Just a reminder. We've seen the Trump team act to censor and hide environmental science before on a massive scale. It will certainly happen again.
#climate #water

EU could introduce unified train ticket booking system by 2026 #EuropeanUnion

https://traveltomorrow.com/eu-could-introduce-unified-train-ticket-booking-system-by-2026/

[2411.10470] Open Research Data in Spanish University Repositories https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10470

👀 nice compliments about @OpenAlex in Nature News today: "In the past few years, competitors have emerged that offer this kind of bibliometrics data... One noteable example is the index OpenAlex, which launched in 2022.... Users can search the content it catalogues by authors, institutions and citations and also download its entire records for free. “They are doing what we wanted Google Scholar to do,” says Martín-Martín."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03746-y

#OpenAlex

There are many reasons to prefer #ARKs to #DOIs. But until now I hadn't seen a systematic case for them combined with good implementation detail. Recommended, esp to those unfamiliar with ARKs.
https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/article/view/19891

More on ARKs themselves.
https://arks.org/

#OpenInfrastructure #PIDs #ScholComm #Standards
cc @arks_org

MDPI getting hammered again, this time for suspicious phrases in peer review, by an author (Oviedo-García) that seems to specialize in focusing on MDPI.

What we forget is that this was detected because MDPI openly publish a significant proportion of their peer review reports.

The same thing is going on at Elsevier, Wiley, Springer Nature and Taylor & Francis journals.

a) they don't tend to publish their peer review reports
b) they don't seem to have specialist scrutineers like Oviedo-García

Open access : l'Université de Nantes recule devant auteurs et éditeurs https://actualitte.com/article/119068/droit-justice/open-access-l-universite-de-nantes-recule-devant-auteurs-et-editeurs

Seeking to make the life of the learned society publisher easier | Publication Forum https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/events/seeking-make-life-learned-society-publisher-easier

Why I’ve removed journal titles from the papers on my CV https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02596-y

#MIT just released a major 56 pp report on #OpenAccess & the future of academic #publishing. I esp like the fact that the last 12 pp are devoted to 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 "to spur research that will…inform future policies & their implementation."

* Splash page
https://access-to-science.pubpub.org/
* Report itself
https://assets.pubpub.org/5coqhl85/Access%20to%20science%20and%20scholarship%20MIT%20report%20Nov%202023-11699913821553.pdf
* Associated interview
https://news.mit.edu/2023/phillip-sharp-amy-brand-future-open-access-publishing-1130

(Unfortunately the report has no table of contents. MIT: Could you please add one retroactively to support both skimming & close reading?)

Artículo publicado: presente y futuro de los acuerdos transformativos en España ▶️https://doi.org/10.31009/hipertext.net.2023.i27.09
Número sobre #CienciaAbierta en la revista #Hipertext #AccesoAbierto #OpenScience #VivimosTiemposInteresantes

Project Ansund at Trinity College Dublin (@tcddublin) will use handwritten text recognition (#HTR) "to build an exhaustive, #OpenAccess digital corpus of #OldEnglish texts, that transcribes all surviving Old English for the first time, and in an unparalleled level of detail."
https://theconversation.com/how-ai-could-reveal-secrets-of-thousands-of-handwritten-documents-from-medieval-manuscripts-to-hieroglyphics-218734

New: a very nice annotated list of 100+ tools, 10+ practices and 50+ books: the COPIM experimental publishing compendium. https://compendium.copim.ac.uk/tools?view=list

Today, SPARC released a report analyzing ScienceDirect's data privacy practices. As online platforms become central to research, the report highlights why we should actively address privacy risks as this transition occurs rather than after it is complete.https://sparcopen.org/our-work/privacy-and-surveillance-community-of-practice/navigating-risk-in-vendor-data-privacy-practices/
To complement the analysis released today, we've also published a summary that includes an overview of relevant support SPARC will provide in taking action to address issues raised in this report. https://sparcopen.org/news/2023/sparc-report-urges-action-to-address-concerns-with-sciencedirect-data-privacy-practices/

The US National Science Foundation (#NSF) is calling for public comments on its updated #OpenAccess policy.
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-25267.pdf

This is a preprint version of the RFI. The final version will appear later today at this URL:
https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2023-25267/request-for-information-public-access-plan-20-ensuring-open-immediate-and-equitable-access-to

UPDATE: The final version is now online at the second URL above.

#OSTP #NelsonMemo #OAintheUSA

#Librarians: Please consider helping #LibraryPartnership rate #publishers on how their practices align with #library values.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B5cOC5XHp_8wk-QeuZCevDVj6RFq8lFLN1jHv0XLJXA/edit#heading=h.i1ae4mhu9koe

(Disclosure: I'm a past member of the advisory council.)