Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1953321&dswid=8836

#ScholComm #dissertation

Last chance! We still want to hear from you, so please share your feedback in our Community Survey (closing at 11:59 pm EDT). Whether you're a member or nonmember, your thoughts are important to us as we develop plans for addressing new challenges in #ScholComm: www.surveymonkey.com/r/CS25social

OAPEN blog: Two Years On: A Conversation with DFG on Supporting #OpenAccess #Books

#ScholComm

https://oapen.hypotheses.org/1336

Courage and leadership, like that shown by Emerald Publishing, are sorely needed now. #Publishers, please look at Emerald's inspiring efforts to #DefendResearch and do the same! #ScholComm #Academia #HigherEd https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/defendresearch

Excellent Scholarly Kitchen post today by Alice Meadows and Suze Kundu about how our different sectors could be responding to the threats of this moment! #DefendResearch #ScholComm #AcademicChatter #Academics #journalism #journalists https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/30/trump-v-research-how-we-could-turn-the-threats-into-opportunities/

If you are wondering why your data librarians, medical librarians, and schol comm librarians just started profusely swearing --

NIH just moved up implementation deadline for Public Access 2.0 from December 31 to July 1.

For Open Access, it's yay, great, lovely. for implementation...there's swearing.

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy

#DataLibs #MedLibs #ScholComm #OpenAccess

OAPEN Shares 2025 Strategic Priorities https://oapen.hypotheses.org/1348 #books #digitallibraries #libraries #scholcomm

New Findings From COAR: #Repositories are Being Profoundly Impacted by #AI Bots and Other Crawlers; & More Headlines https://www.infodocket.com/2025/04/30/ai-news-roundup-new-data-from-coar-repositories-are-being-profoundly-impacted-by-ai-bots-and-other-crawlers-springer-nature-donates-its-unique-ai-tool-that-identifies-problematic-text-to-publ/ #oa #scholcomm @coar_repositories

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region presents a powerful case for why #DiamondOA matters 💎

Mahmoud Khalifa #DOAJ Editor & Ambassador details which countries are leading the way and the value of equitable publishing in the region

#ScholComm #OpenAccess

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/29/diamond-open-access-journals-in-the-mena-region-insights-from-doaj-metadata/

Our friends at Think.Check.Submit. are looking for #volunteers to update the #Hindi, #Korean, #Vietnamese and #Arabic translations of the checklists.

Are you interested? Do you have colleagues who might want to help? Send an email to feedback@thinkchecksubmit.org

Read the latest TCS newsletter: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=view_in_browser&action=view&data=WzEwLCJlOTBlODVjMjY1Y2IiLDE2Mzk2LCJoNzVubWQ5amNka29na2djY2d3NGtjMGd3OGs4Y3dvYyIsNSwwXQ

#scholcomm #thinkchecksubmit

NEW Journal Article: "Understanding #ORCID Adoption Among Academic #Researchers" #libraries #scholcomm
https://www.infodocket.com/2025/04/27/journal-article-understanding-orcid-adoption-among-academic-researchers/ #libraries #scholcomm

#introduction I'm Dan Katz, Chief Scientist at NCSA (https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/) at U Illinois and Assoc Res Prof in CS and our iSchool. I'm also a co-founder of ReSA (https://www.researchsoft.org/), US-RSE (https://us-rse.org/), JOSS (https://joss.theoj.org/), and URSSI (https://urssi.us/). I work on #researchsoftware #softwaresustainability #softwarecitation #policy #RSEng #scholcomm #FAIR #FAIR4RS #FAIR4ML #cyberinfrastructure #HPC
Hobbies: #photography #birdphotography #reading #walks

⏳Just one week left to comment on the draft revision of Transfer, the recommended practice that helps ensure that content transferred between publishers remains accessible to users! Be sure to review and share your feedback by May 2: https://niso.org/standards-committees/transfer

#JournalsPublishing #ScholComm

Study shows how global scientific evaluation criteria disadvantage urban journals from the Global South, reinforcing epistemic inequality in the production and circulation of knowledge. As an alternative, databases such as SciELO and Redalyc have proven to be auspicious in increasing the visibility and recognition of local scientific production. #ScholComm #Bibliometrics

Read the press release from the Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais!

https://humanas.blog.scielo.org/en/2025/04/23/international-metrics-make-latin-american-urban-journals-invisible/

Indonesian open access journals serve both academic audiences and broader communities.

Ikhwan Arief, DOAJ Ambassador for Indonesia, discusses the rapid growth of open access journals in Indonesia and their inclusion in DOAJ

#DOAJ #Indonesia #ScholComm #OpenAccess

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/22/understanding-the-growth-of-indonesian-journals-in-doaj/

Not to criticize, just to document the development: Between December 2023 and February 2024, the fee for Fast Track Review at the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) increased from 450 to 950 USD. #peerreview #scholcomm

https://web.archive.org/web/20231217030147/https://support.jmir.org/hc/en-us/articles/115001310127-How-to-fast-track-expedite-a-paper-and-what-are-the-benefits-

https://web.archive.org/web/20240204111020/https://support.jmir.org/hc/en-us/articles/115001310127-How-to-fast-track-expedite-a-paper-and-what-are-the-benefits

New study: Graduate students in #STEM "often conflate issues around #copyright and #plagiarism and have little understanding of their own ownership over the materials they create." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... #ScholComm

Project MUSE - A Qualitative S...

New study: Graduate students in #STEM "often conflate issues around #copyright and #plagiarism and have little understanding of their own ownership over the materials they create."
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/955951

#ScholComm

A lo largo de 2025, DOAJ destacará las revistas Diamond OA que indexamos, destacando nuestros esfuerzos continuos para mejorar la visibilidad y el impacto de las revistas lideradas por la comunidad a nivel mundial.

#DOAJ #DiamondOA #ScholComm #OpenAccess

Leer la publicación del blog
https://blog.doaj.org/es/2025/04/15/doaj-and-diamond-our-focus-for-2025/

German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) Releases Discussion Paper on the Direct Funding and Evaluation of Scientific #Journals https://www.infodocket.com/2025/04/15/german-national-academy-of-sciences-leopoldina-releases-discussion-paper-on-the-direct-funding-and-evaluation-of-scientific-journals/ #scholcomm #libraries #publishing