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Account no longer in use. This is an archive of repository, open access and scholarly communications updates.

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Joined April 2009
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💥New: Why are UK universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements? #OpenAccess #Elsevier #AcademicLibraries blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci…
Why are universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements? - LSE Impact

Why are universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements? - LSE Impact

Peter Barr explains why academic libraries are making these decisions and what it says about the wider academic publishing sector in the UK.

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Taylor & Francis’ decision to sell access to its academic publications to allow Microsoft to train its AI system has raised concerns over plagiarism and accusations that researchers have been misled timeshighereducation.com/new…
Academic backlash as publisher lets Microsoft train AI on papers

Academic backlash as publisher lets Microsoft train AI on papers

Researchers claim that Taylor & Francis kept details of deal quiet, but company insists that citation and limits on verbatim quoting will be sacrosanct

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Mark Reed@profmarkreed19 Jul 2024
How to promote your article and impact policy - free webinar with me and Sean Scarisbrick from @Sage_Publishing. Register now (takes place this November) sagepub.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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A DOI is not enough – Can practice research be captured by libraries and archives? - LSE Impact

A DOI is not enough – Can practice research be captured by libraries and archives? - LSE Impact

Holly Ranger, Jenny Evans &Adam Vials Moore on how practice research can be better documented and made more accessible to researchers and research users.

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CILIP@CILIPinfo17 Jul 2024
Does the mass resignation of editors from two Elsevier journals mean the whole sector is close to a tipping point? This article is an attempt to understand the extent to which other journals are in a position to follow and if so, when. cilip.org.uk/news/645503/Wha…
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Predatory publishing is not just about journals. There are predatory book publishers. See our checklist for books and chapters. bit.ly/3TJ3nea
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We are live! Delighted to share our new website. Full of free resources for educators to enhance disability literacy and representation. Take a look and let us know what you think qmutoyboxdiversitylab.com #representationmatters #Disability #education
Screen shot of laptop and mobile phone version of our new website https://qmutoyboxdiversitylab.com Title reads Disability inclusions through imagination and play. There is an image of a woman sitting at a table laughing with 2 children using coloured dots to represent braille in a lesson.

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SGSAH@sgsah8 May 2024
⏰ Only 1 week left to go! Remember to RVSP to 'Peer Review & Publishing', a 3-part online event on Wed 15 May! 🗓️ Open to Scotland-based arts & humanities doctoral researchers! Attendees welcome to sign up for the whole day or just 1 session! 📚 🔗 tockify.com/sgsah/detail/246…
An image of old books within a large library. A wavy creme banner is on the top and bottom of the image. Top text reads "Peer Review & Publishing. Wed 15th May, 11am-5pm. Please RSVP". A cyan rectangle sits in the centre with the text "3 part online event looking at the peer review process for academic journals, book publishing opportunities with university and trade presses, alongside a hands-on ‘Thesis-to-Book' workshop. The SGSAH logo rests in the bottom corner.

ALT An image of old books within a large library. A wavy creme banner is on the top and bottom of the image. Top text reads "Peer Review & Publishing. Wed 15th May, 11am-5pm. Please RSVP". A cyan rectangle sits in the centre with the text "3 part online event looking at the peer review process for academic journals, book publishing opportunities with university and trade presses, alongside a hands-on ‘Thesis-to-Book' workshop. The SGSAH logo rests in the bottom corner.

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REF 2029@ref202919 Mar 2024
We have been asked to provide clarity on the REF2029 position on trade books. We confirm that trade books are out of scope in the REF2029 Open Access Policy and are therefore not subject to open access requirements. The consultation and website are updated ref.ac.uk/guidance/ref-2029-…
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Octopus.ac@octopus_ac13 Feb 2024
Free to read, free to publish, and entirely open source. Find out more about Octopus.ac in this short video ji.sc/introducing-octopus-ac

Octopus | Built for Researchers

Get started with Octopus, an open access platform where researchers can read, review and publish findings at all stages of the scientific process.

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‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point theguardian.com/science/2024…
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Why I left the editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage — and helped start something new statnews.com/2024/02/01/scie… via @statnews
Why I left the editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage — and helped start...

Why I left the editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage — and helped start...

Scientists like Shella Keiholz are beginning to rebel against the unjustifiable waste of resources by traditional scientific research journals.

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Open-access papers draw more citations from a broader readership | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…
Open-access papers draw more citations from a broader readership

Open-access papers draw more citations from a broader readership

New study addresses long-standing debate about whether free-to-read papers have increased reach

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The same issues confronted by authors looking to publish in journals, also confront authors seeking to publish a book or a chapter. We’ve just updated our checklist for Books and Chapters is updated. bit.ly/3WnYsAh
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Delighted to finish off the year with publishing the first Approaches journal issue to be hosted on our QMU Journals OJS platform: journals.qmu.ac.uk/approache… . Very grateful to all @EdinDiamond for their patient advice and assistance.🙂
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REF 2029@ref20297 Dec 2023
Following the REF initial decisions consultation, we're announcing some updates - most importantly that the next REF will be REF 2029. This is in recognition of the complexities for HEIs in preparing for the exercise.
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The webinar recording and slides are now online! Check it out ➡️ oa2020.org/2023/11/20/beware… #openaccess🔓 #copyright
OA Forward | Shaping the future of open scholarly publishing together

OA Forward | Shaping the future of open scholarly publishing together

OA Forward connects libraries, consortia, funders, and research organizations to coordinate open scholarly communication, open access negotiations, and transparent publishing agreements.

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Open Access 2020 (@oa2020ini) profile pictureOpen Access 2020@oa2020ini14 Nov 2023
📢OA2020 webinar📢 Beware of License to Publish agreements: or ensuring authors retain rights to their openly published work with guest speakers @arjanschalken of UKB Consortium and Rich Schneider of @UCSF Registration ➡️eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi… #openaccess🔓 #copyright
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