Danny Kingsley
@dannykay68.bsky.social
Scholarly Communication - all of it, Open Research, research assessment, research culture, research integrity. They are parts of the same whole.
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"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
NEW WORD: Malinformation - "information which is based on fact, but removed from its original context in order to mislead, harm, or manipulate" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinfo...
Malinformation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
NEW WORD: Malinformation - "information which is based on fact, but removed from its original context in order to mislead, harm, or manipulate" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinfo...
INTERESTING: "Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an end to the university's dependence on big tech" www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm... "Universities need to work towards technical infrastructures and practices that restore the autonomy of the academic community ..."
Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an end to the university's dependence on big tech
We, the undersigned, express our concern about the University of Groningen’s increasing reliance on services from big tech companies
www.rug.nl
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
INTERESTING: "Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an end to the university's dependence on big tech" www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm... "Universities need to work towards technical infrastructures and practices that restore the autonomy of the academic community ..."
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Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen...
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Conference Programme
R2R 2026 Conference Programme The full Programme for 2026 Conference is listed below; the timetable will be set out in November, and the Lightning Talks will be announced in January. The programme …
r2rconf.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen...
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS: this article is making the case that PhDs don't prepare students for work outside academia "PhD employability beyond academia: an analysis of industry skills emphasis through a cultural capital lens" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
PhD employability beyond academia: an analysis of industry skills emphasis through a cultural capital lens
PhD graduate employability is crucial for candidates, employers, and governments. Having PhD graduates in appropriate post-study employment enhances career satisfaction, benefits organisations, and...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS: this article is making the case that PhDs don't prepare students for work outside academia "PhD employability beyond academia: an analysis of industry skills emphasis through a cultural capital lens" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
DODGY: Clarivate supporting awards for researchers with large numbers of retractions - "Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq" retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/e...
Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq
Hayder A. Dhahad, Iraq’s deputy minister for scientific research affairs, speaks at an awards ceremony at the country’s Science Day celebration. Source: Instagram In the string of prestigious…
retractionwatch.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
DODGY: Clarivate supporting awards for researchers with large numbers of retractions - "Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq" retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/e...
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🌏 Open Access Week 2025 - Thank You!
Open Access Australasia was pleased to present three distinct webinars with a diverse international and regional array of speakers #OAWeek2025
🎥event recordings are now available for you to watch at your convenience
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
Open Access Australasia was pleased to present three distinct webinars with a diverse international and regional array of speakers #OAWeek2025
🎥event recordings are now available for you to watch at your convenience
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
Open Access Week | Open Access Australasia
oaaustralasia.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🌏 Open Access Week 2025 - Thank You!
Open Access Australasia was pleased to present three distinct webinars with a diverse international and regional array of speakers #OAWeek2025
🎥event recordings are now available for you to watch at your convenience
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
Open Access Australasia was pleased to present three distinct webinars with a diverse international and regional array of speakers #OAWeek2025
🎥event recordings are now available for you to watch at your convenience
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
SAYS IT ALL: Publishers worry about profit, libraries worry about information. Forget the motherhood statements & 'value adds' that commercial publishers claim to make. It's all about the cash.
"Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
"Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
October 31, 2025 at 6:53 AM
SAYS IT ALL: Publishers worry about profit, libraries worry about information. Forget the motherhood statements & 'value adds' that commercial publishers claim to make. It's all about the cash.
"Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
"Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
DIVERSITY of assessment and reforming evaluation being discussed at @unesco.org "Open Science: From the UNESCO Recommendation to Reality in Asia and the Pacific - Session 1” An excellent slide
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
DIVERSITY of assessment and reforming evaluation being discussed at @unesco.org "Open Science: From the UNESCO Recommendation to Reality in Asia and the Pacific - Session 1” An excellent slide
RELIVE the ideas, discussions and excitement of the Open Access Week discussions hosted by OA Australasia this year @oaaustralasia.bsky.social including a panel I facilitated: "The politics of knowledge: who controls the story and who has access to it?" oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
Open Access Week | Open Access Australasia
oaaustralasia.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
RELIVE the ideas, discussions and excitement of the Open Access Week discussions hosted by OA Australasia this year @oaaustralasia.bsky.social including a panel I facilitated: "The politics of knowledge: who controls the story and who has access to it?" oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
AGREE: "Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/29/g... I still mourn the loss of Twitter - it was so important to me when I moved back to Australia and was professionally isolated for a couple of years (plus COVID...)
Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest bloggers share insights into the fragmented, tiring, and uncertain digital landscape for academics, and evidence that a shift is underway — with implications for scholarly communication ...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
AGREE: "Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/29/g... I still mourn the loss of Twitter - it was so important to me when I moved back to Australia and was professionally isolated for a couple of years (plus COVID...)
CONCERNING (yes Cureus's activity but more): "Clarivate’s Web of Science team wields immense power; it can make or break a journal with its editorial decisions and adversely affect revenue lines to the tune of tens of millions of dollars" - **with no accountability**
www.linkedin.com/posts/jwbutc...
www.linkedin.com/posts/jwbutc...
Yesterday, Cureus, the second largest journal in 2024, was delisted by Web of Science and lost its impact factor.
Here's my take on what the news means for Cureus and the wider industry:… | James...
Yesterday, Cureus, the second largest journal in 2024, was delisted by Web of Science and lost its impact factor.
Here's my take on what the news means for Cureus and the wider industry:
https://lnk...
www.linkedin.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
CONCERNING (yes Cureus's activity but more): "Clarivate’s Web of Science team wields immense power; it can make or break a journal with its editorial decisions and adversely affect revenue lines to the tune of tens of millions of dollars" - **with no accountability**
www.linkedin.com/posts/jwbutc...
www.linkedin.com/posts/jwbutc...
ARGUMENT for the central role curators have in our society, esp in the face of AI senseaboutscience.org/wp-content/u... “describe what good curation looks like and the principles that underpin it – principles that we as a society urgently need to make more visible, respected and protected”
senseaboutscience.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
ARGUMENT for the central role curators have in our society, esp in the face of AI senseaboutscience.org/wp-content/u... “describe what good curation looks like and the principles that underpin it – principles that we as a society urgently need to make more visible, respected and protected”
SUMMARY of International Data Week, held in my home city Brisbane - codata.org/blog/2025/10... It was so good to have everyone travel to us this time!
Reimagining Data Futures – Reflections on Brisbane IDW: The CODATA International Data Policy Committee | CODATA Blog
codata.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
SUMMARY of International Data Week, held in my home city Brisbane - codata.org/blog/2025/10... It was so good to have everyone travel to us this time!
RANKINGS SUCK - an alternative title for this article - "Together, universities can take back control of their data" www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... "This dual role – both referee and coach – would raise eyebrows in any other field...universities seem to accept that arrangement. Why?"
Together, universities can take back control of their data
A single university can do little to demand accountability from rankings companies, but together institutions can demand reciprocal transparency, nego...
www.universityworldnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
RANKINGS SUCK - an alternative title for this article - "Together, universities can take back control of their data" www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... "This dual role – both referee and coach – would raise eyebrows in any other field...universities seem to accept that arrangement. Why?"
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Journals that ‘publish in a local language’ -the audacity!
Seriously, getting this right important. That’s why the great team at @doaj.bsky.social spend so much time on these issues. (Disclaimer - I’m on the DOAJ Board)
Seriously, getting this right important. That’s why the great team at @doaj.bsky.social spend so much time on these issues. (Disclaimer - I’m on the DOAJ Board)
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Journals that ‘publish in a local language’ -the audacity!
Seriously, getting this right important. That’s why the great team at @doaj.bsky.social spend so much time on these issues. (Disclaimer - I’m on the DOAJ Board)
Seriously, getting this right important. That’s why the great team at @doaj.bsky.social spend so much time on these issues. (Disclaimer - I’m on the DOAJ Board)
DEPRESSING: This is a list of Federal Funding Cuts and Research Universities. The tracker documents the impacts of the cuts on the human infrastructure of the research enterprise airtable.com/appo02JOpIo2...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
DEPRESSING: This is a list of Federal Funding Cuts and Research Universities. The tracker documents the impacts of the cuts on the human infrastructure of the research enterprise airtable.com/appo02JOpIo2...
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Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?
TOO TRUE! Committees and IT departments have captured the university - Teaching missions would be easier to fulfil if academics did not have to seek so many permissions to do their jobs (paywalled) www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/comm...
Committees and IT departments have captured the university
Teaching missions would be easier to fulfil if academics did not have to seek so many permissions to do their jobs, says Akhil Bhardwaj
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
TOO TRUE! Committees and IT departments have captured the university - Teaching missions would be easier to fulfil if academics did not have to seek so many permissions to do their jobs (paywalled) www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/comm...
SIGH: ‘Painful job losses likely’ as AI fills university admin roles - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/painful...
Reports, agendas, policies and minutes that are a mainstay of university life are all “ripe for GenAI to work on”
Reports, agendas, policies and minutes that are a mainstay of university life are all “ripe for GenAI to work on”
‘Painful job losses likely’ as AI fills university admin roles
Institutions should retrain staff affected now rather than ‘sustain jobs which machines can do better and cheaper’, expert argues
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
SIGH: ‘Painful job losses likely’ as AI fills university admin roles - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/painful...
Reports, agendas, policies and minutes that are a mainstay of university life are all “ripe for GenAI to work on”
Reports, agendas, policies and minutes that are a mainstay of university life are all “ripe for GenAI to work on”
LENS: I find it interesting that this article scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/15/d... is all about how Diamond OA is unsustainable (not surprisingly given the editorial focus of the outlet), but glosses over how completely terrible Scopus is at indexing journals. Surely Scopus is at fault here?
October 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
LENS: I find it interesting that this article scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/15/d... is all about how Diamond OA is unsustainable (not surprisingly given the editorial focus of the outlet), but glosses over how completely terrible Scopus is at indexing journals. Surely Scopus is at fault here?
POTENTIAL: Examining the role of AI in institutional repository workflows
hangingtogether.org/examining-th...
The working group identified two critical IR workflow areas where AI could be a useful tool:
* Deposit processes (including metadata creation)
* Legacy metadata clean-up and management
hangingtogether.org/examining-th...
The working group identified two critical IR workflow areas where AI could be a useful tool:
* Deposit processes (including metadata creation)
* Legacy metadata clean-up and management
Examining the role of AI in institutional repository workflows - Hanging Together
Can AI help to manage institutional repository metadata? From improving deposit workflows to cleaning up legacy data, explore how AI might support IRs while keeping human expertise front and center.
hangingtogether.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
POTENTIAL: Examining the role of AI in institutional repository workflows
hangingtogether.org/examining-th...
The working group identified two critical IR workflow areas where AI could be a useful tool:
* Deposit processes (including metadata creation)
* Legacy metadata clean-up and management
hangingtogether.org/examining-th...
The working group identified two critical IR workflow areas where AI could be a useful tool:
* Deposit processes (including metadata creation)
* Legacy metadata clean-up and management
EXPANDING: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/10... "Podcasts now count towards research impact in world first for Altmetric"
In addition to podcasts, Altmetric’s many attention sources include select social media channels, news, blogs, public policy sites, patents, clinical guidelines, and more.
In addition to podcasts, Altmetric’s many attention sources include select social media channels, news, blogs, public policy sites, patents, clinical guidelines, and more.
Podcasts now count towards research impact in world first for Altmetric - Digital Science
In a major step forward for tracking the real-world impact of research, Altmetric has added a new attention source: Podcasts.
www.digital-science.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM
EXPANDING: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/10... "Podcasts now count towards research impact in world first for Altmetric"
In addition to podcasts, Altmetric’s many attention sources include select social media channels, news, blogs, public policy sites, patents, clinical guidelines, and more.
In addition to podcasts, Altmetric’s many attention sources include select social media channels, news, blogs, public policy sites, patents, clinical guidelines, and more.
NEXT LEVEL: Iraqi university forcing students to cite its journals to graduate retractionwatch.com/2025/10/17/e... "The University of Technology has made coercive citation official policy."
Exclusive: Iraqi university forcing students to cite its journals to graduate
To earn their degrees, graduate students at the University of Technology in Baghdad not only must publish research in indexed journals. They also are required to cite articles in their school’s own…
retractionwatch.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
NEXT LEVEL: Iraqi university forcing students to cite its journals to graduate retractionwatch.com/2025/10/17/e... "The University of Technology has made coercive citation official policy."