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.
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
REFRESHING HONESTY about the run around journals put authors through. That the community has put up with this for so long says mountains about our flawed and problematic assessment system. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/m...
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
REFRESHING HONESTY about the run around journals put authors through. That the community has put up with this for so long says mountains about our flawed and problematic assessment system. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/m...
I argued in 2021 that PhDs don't prepare students for work *in* academia - "A Call to Develop Standards for Those Delivering ‘Research Practice’ Training" popjournal.ca/issue03/king...
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I argued in 2021 that PhDs don't prepare students for work *in* academia - "A Call to Develop Standards for Those Delivering ‘Research Practice’ Training" popjournal.ca/issue03/king...
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
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?
EARLY to see my first Christmas beetle this year but happy about it!
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
EARLY to see my first Christmas beetle this year but happy about it!
MESS- staffing for repositories within libraries in Australasia is all over the shop
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
MESS- staffing for repositories within libraries in Australasia is all over the shop
IMPLICATIONS for @ardc.edu.au in the National Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy - have decided on a future focus of innovative, trusted, enduring, collaborative
October 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
IMPLICATIONS for @ardc.edu.au in the National Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy - have decided on a future focus of innovative, trusted, enduring, collaborative
FUTURE of repositories is shared infrastructure where individual institutions have their own branding but it is centrally managed @coar-repositories.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
FUTURE of repositories is shared infrastructure where individual institutions have their own branding but it is centrally managed @coar-repositories.bsky.social
NOT ALL BAD - five major factors impacting scholarly communication - from @coar-repositories.bsky.social Kathleen Shearer
October 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
NOT ALL BAD - five major factors impacting scholarly communication - from @coar-repositories.bsky.social Kathleen Shearer
DESIRE - researchers actually want access to research
October 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
DESIRE - researchers actually want access to research
INTRODUCTIONS to a day to discuss all things repositories from Martin Borchert - looking forward to the event!
October 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
INTRODUCTIONS to a day to discuss all things repositories from Martin Borchert - looking forward to the event!
NEW MODEL - AIP Publishing Launches Pilot of AIP Fusion: A New Model for Open Science in the Physical Sciences publishing.aip.org/about/news/a...
October 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
NEW MODEL - AIP Publishing Launches Pilot of AIP Fusion: A New Model for Open Science in the Physical Sciences publishing.aip.org/about/news/a...
DEPRESSING - the situation for UK universities is very challenging
October 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
DEPRESSING - the situation for UK universities is very challenging
DISCLOSURE: "Guest Post – Taxonomy of Delegation: How GAIDeT Reframes AI Transparency in Science, an Interview with Yana Suchikova" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/30/g... Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy enables researchers to disclose the use of generative AI in an honest and transparent way.
October 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
DISCLOSURE: "Guest Post – Taxonomy of Delegation: How GAIDeT Reframes AI Transparency in Science, an Interview with Yana Suchikova" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/30/g... Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy enables researchers to disclose the use of generative AI in an honest and transparent way.
SIGH: It isn't enough that this merger is the result of a plan to increase the university ranking level - yes university rankings that are based on methodology so poor that they would never pass an ethics application - but the SA govt is also throwing money at Elsevier for analyses about the merger
October 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
SIGH: It isn't enough that this merger is the result of a plan to increase the university ranking level - yes university rankings that are based on methodology so poor that they would never pass an ethics application - but the SA govt is also throwing money at Elsevier for analyses about the merger
SETTING UP- the amazing team behind today’s Symposium- “Beyond Certainty- What does 'Discovery' mean in an open and artificially intelligent world?" #AIBeyond
www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
October 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
SETTING UP- the amazing team behind today’s Symposium- “Beyond Certainty- What does 'Discovery' mean in an open and artificially intelligent world?" #AIBeyond
www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
INTEREST: presumably because of the #OASPA2025 summaries!
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
INTEREST: presumably because of the #OASPA2025 summaries!
FRESH HORROR- this is what Starbucks in Brussels thinks a white tea is. Just wow.
September 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
FRESH HORROR- this is what Starbucks in Brussels thinks a white tea is. Just wow.
FINAL NOTES from #OASPA2025 farewell and recognition of the work to put together such a great conference
September 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
FINAL NOTES from #OASPA2025 farewell and recognition of the work to put together such a great conference
DREAM TEAM- our panel on ‘Library at the heart of the open access transition” preparing to start. #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
DREAM TEAM- our panel on ‘Library at the heart of the open access transition” preparing to start. #OASPA2025
VARIETY NEEDED: John Wilkin (Lyrasis) is joining online at 4am his time due to illness. He says as CEO of a library organisation he is trying to scale to meet collective needs. To pursue one approach to sustainability, infrastructure or validation to the exclusion of others won’t work. #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
VARIETY NEEDED: John Wilkin (Lyrasis) is joining online at 4am his time due to illness. He says as CEO of a library organisation he is trying to scale to meet collective needs. To pursue one approach to sustainability, infrastructure or validation to the exclusion of others won’t work. #OASPA2025
STUDY presented by Allison Langham-Putrow & Amy Riegelman (University of Minnesota Libraries) - After 10 years of Transformative Agreements (which they are not) we are still wanting a mechanism to measure their effectiveness
The paper is here - conservancy.umn.edu/items/1557f1...
#OASPA2025
The paper is here - conservancy.umn.edu/items/1557f1...
#OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
STUDY presented by Allison Langham-Putrow & Amy Riegelman (University of Minnesota Libraries) - After 10 years of Transformative Agreements (which they are not) we are still wanting a mechanism to measure their effectiveness
The paper is here - conservancy.umn.edu/items/1557f1...
#OASPA2025
The paper is here - conservancy.umn.edu/items/1557f1...
#OASPA2025
ENCOURAGEMENT to see the @operaseu.bsky.social poster given Niels nearly lost it a couple of times en route! www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u... #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
ENCOURAGEMENT to see the @operaseu.bsky.social poster given Niels nearly lost it a couple of times en route! www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u... #OASPA2025