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Ross Mounce
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Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund.

Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right […]

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Ah Microsoft Outlook... is email really that hard?
Microsoft Outlook is trying to recover your information...
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Anyone good at getting Android phones to do slightly unusual things?

Read on...

When I attach this to my Nothing 3a Pro phone, it kinda works... the USB-A for instance works - I can read&write to a thumb drive.

But I can’t get it to use Internet via RJ45 […]

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Photo of the box of my multifunctional USB-C adapter
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Great to see the inclusivity & recognition of @OpenAlex improve with the recent 'Walden' (codename) data update.

You can compare old vs. new data at the OREO site (OpenAlex Rewrite Eval Overview) https://oreo.openalex.org/

The screenshot I'm looking at here […]

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Works Count Increased (5% The works_count field increased by 5% or more in 53% of countries (=) ‘Showing 1-20 of 130 changed countries (53% of our 246-country sample) Classic ‘Walden Nigeria Nigeria works_count: 438,448 works_count: 525,828 Czechia Czechia works_count: 695,844 works_count: 972,899 Lao People's Democratic Republic Lao People's Democratic Republic 6,884 works 7,479 works works_count: 6,884 works_count: 7,479 Cameroon Cameroon works_count: 60,357 works_count: 65,888 Guam Guam works_count: 3,598 works_count: 4,142
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Imagine a university in a wealthy country where less than 50% of the recent research output is openly accessible to the public?

😢
bottom of the CWTS rankings of US universities by %OA
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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lots of room for improvement at US universities on open access.

Rockefeller & Caltech doing the best at the moment?

MIT, unsurprisingly high-up the US leaderboard 👍
leaderboard of US universities by %open access
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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eyeballing the new CWTS Leiden university rankings from an open access perspective...

Indonesian universities dominate the top 100 (of most OA universities), with >95% open access.

It goes to show that when a country system isn't embroiled in the […]

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Screenshot of the top 13 universities by percentage of outputs that are open access. All but one are Indonesian universities.
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Doing some light "research" on Grokipedia.

It's not enough to just laugh it. I've gotta try it out to see it for myself...

So I looked up the article on Cheese.
https://grokipedia.com/page/Cheese

Lots of immediately obvious errors/issues including:

* […]

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screenshot of mis-rendered ?markdown? so that the table is not visualised where it is meant to be a table
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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RED ALERT.

Wiley's servers are down. You cannot now access knowledge

timestamp: 2025-10-14 10.21am (British Summer Time)

🙃

#wileydown
Wiley Online Library This site is currently unavailable We apologize for any inconvenience while we work to restore access as soon as possible. Web server is down The web server is not returning a connection. As a result, the web page is not displaying. « Ray ID: 98e5fdb750e2ef4d « Your IP address: (redatced) « Error reference number: 521 « Cloudflare Location: London If you require help please Contact Customer Service.
October 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Uncovering further AI-made, not sufficiently human-checked, graphical abstracts in Elsevier journals. Note the background colour. Which GenAI tool often gives that background colour?

➡️ CONCERNN

➡️ SURRUCE WATR

further issues in the rest of the paper too […]

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CONCERNN SURRUCE WATR
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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If y'all thought the graphical abstract was wacky. Wait til you see Figure 6

I've highlighted at the bottom (in yellow squiggle) where extra text has been badly cropped off.

The whole figure is complete nonsense.

I wonder if the authors are doing a Sokal type hoax?
Surface Erosion Resistance ~~ Pollination ~~ Microclimate ~~ Landscape Water Index Service Regulation Aesthetic Regulation Potential Value
August 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Elsevier "hybrid" journal called _Ecological Modelling_ which charges an APC of USD 3,040 (excluding taxes)...

...publishes THIS abomination as a graphical abstract. 🤣

Source:
Zhao et al (2025) Designing Ecological Networks to Foster Regional Economic […]

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gibberish graphical abstract clearly made by some gen AI model
August 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Like "Linux on the Desktop" will 2025 be the year that academics finally realise that choosing to publish with Elsevier isn't a good idea?

key quote from Elsevier rep:

"rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from […]

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1) Have authors consented to these hyperlinks in their scientific articles? ~The topic page is a functionality of ScienceDirect, to improve user experience, as rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from authors.
August 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Urgh. Look at this dodgy journal marketing from IWA Publishing:

No Author Fees*

*No author fees: where institutionally supported, for authors from low-income countries, or for articles with significant societal impact

I think what IWA Publishing meant to […]

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No Author Fees* A comprehensive assessment of drinking water quality using LC the water quality index V/ Official Journal of the Identification of potential zones for water detention reservoirs International Water in a semi-arid environment: a sustainability perspective Association Leak localization in water distribution networks using fusion Nn assifer techniques v/ Indexed in Scopus and DOA] Water management resilience analysis tool - a software for n Po imple Submission Pr criticality analysis in water distribution networks v s ple Submissio ocess + Fast Publication *No author fees: where institutionally supported, for authors from low-income countries, or for articles with significant societal impact.
August 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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is this "platinum open access" ??

Maybe we can all just choose our own meanings for words from now on?

Up means down and right means left?
Open Access Processing Charges At eContent Pro International Press, we are dedicated to providing affordable, high-quality open access book publishing. Our cost structure is designed to support authors and editors while maintaining rigorous editorial and production standards. The Book Processing Charges (BPCs) cover the full cost of publishing a complete book and are typically funded by a sponsoring institution or grant, allowing authors and editors to publish at no personal expense. eContent Pro International Press offers highly affordable BPCs, among the lowest in academic publishing. Our BPCs are determined based on the length of the book: Word Count Cost (USD) 70,000-100,000 $9,000* 125,001-150,000 $14,000 *Most open access books fall within this range.
August 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Weird side-benefit of in-person attendance at conferences... access to paywalled material even a month after you were on campus.

No "hacking" on my part. I wonder how long it will last?

#openaccess
You have full access to this article via Université de Lausanne. Download PDF
August 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Read of the day:

Clark J, Zuccala E (2025) Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(6): e0004673. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004673

"Eight years ago Elsevier stood out among publishers, with a median pay gap […]

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Elsevier's gender pay gap in the UK remains consistently above every other publisher across the entire 8-year period
June 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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the amusement from trying to use AI for low-stakes creativity continue...

Prompt: The four letters B O A I in an impressive way

Results generated: Not one contains those four letters asked for

🙃
The four letters B O A l in an impressive way Bing Image Creator Results include colourful graphics containing: BOOE BPDE B and B??O
June 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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whereas, I don't even get served an AI summary when I type in [surname] [model name] with Direct To Open. Maddening inconsistency!
Google Brand Direct To Open D20 [1] MIT Press hitps://mitpress. mitedu > News § MIT Press's Direct to Open (D20) continues expanding ... 27 Aug 2024 — D20 empowers authors so that they can reap the benefits of publishing their work open access regardless of their—or their institution's—ability ...
June 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Je vous présente:
"Grady Opening the Future"

AI summaries in search engine result pages... 🤣

The man, the myth, the legend Tom Grady has been merged into the word soup model. A statistically-likely word that probabilistically fits. Let's just hope CEO's […]

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AI Overview: "Grady Opening the Future” refers to a collective funding model for open access (OA) monographs, particularly those published by university presses. It's a model where libraries subscribe to packages of non-OA books, and the revenue generated from these subscriptions is then used to fund new OA monographs. This ensures that new books are made freely available to readers while also providing libraries with access to a valuable backlist of existing titles.
June 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Spot the amusing typo (yes I know the plural of ass is actually asses but... it’s more funny if you just go with it)

Cold bottoms 🥶

[not going to link to it as it will inevitably be corrected very soon...]
The UK has sanctioned two Israeli far-right ministers over comments they made on Gaza. Itamar Ben-Gir and Bezalel Smotrich will both face a travel ban and have their assess frozen as part of the measures announced by the UK foreign secretary.
June 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Rafael Luque in the news again... https://cen.acs.org/people/Russia-honors-chemist-suspended-Spain/103/web/2025/05

No mention of Elsevier's role in his prodigious output 🤷‍♂️

#elsevier #sciencefraud #russia
A screenshot of Rafael Luque's google scholar profile as of April 2023, the Elsevier logo has been added in next to each item to more clearly indicate who is the publisher of each of the journal items.
May 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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ChatGPT managed to find 5/20 wikidata Q numbers, after nearly 2 minutes of reasoning. Hardly helpful. 🙃
Here's a CSV mapping the 20 1SSNs to their Wikidata Q-numbers (blank where no Wikidata item could be identified): issn, wikidata 1755-2923, Q6773889 1746-0719,Q6773912 2047-7726, Q86735216 2164-0583, 21537891, es20-1297, ws7-6234, wss-2272, 2574-1300, 2045-6725, 2150-5298, 161.7362, exss-77,qus7ie1er esss-c2a2, 752-2285, os25-4597, o00-6361,Q752075 es73-5348, 162.3377, arss-seax,
May 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Prompt: "What is the wikidata Q number of the journal associated with this ISSN: 1755-2923"

DeepSeek: The Wikidata Q number for the journal with ISSN 1755-2923 (Anthropological Journal of European Cultures) is:

Q104857253

Ross: WRONG! That Q number is […]

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What is the wikidata Q number of the journal associated with this ISSN: 1755-2923 @ The Wikidata Q number for the journal with ISSN 1755-2923 (Anthropological Journal of European Cultures) is: Q104857253 You can verify this on Wikidata: & https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104857253 CSV Format: ov © copy & Download ISSN, Wikidata Q ID 1755-2923, 0104857253 Let me know if you need Wikidata Q numbers for any other ISSN!
May 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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What a brilliant advert for open source software. Today, the lead article on the BBC News website:

“Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm8lmz1xk1o

#opensource #publicit
Why the Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system. Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.
April 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Love this #openscience artwork :heart_fire:

La ciencia es de Todos

(en: Science belongs to everyone)

Credit: Vera Morales & Ivonne Khuri

Source: Galeria Virtual: "Diseñar el derecho a la ciencia" https://saberesenterritorio.conusur.org.ar/?p=665

Found […]

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en: "As Latin American women, we aspire, through our participation and our poster, to promote and strengthen how "human rights-based approaches to science" can contribute to making science communication functional for citizen empowerment and collaborate as a practical tool to continue implementing the transformative power of inclusive science." es: "Como mujeres latinoamericanas, aspiramos con nuestra participación y con nuestro afiche a promover y fortalecer cómo "los enfoques de la ciencia basados en los derechos humanos" pueden contribuir para que la comunicación de la ciencia resulte funcional al empoderamiento de la ciudadanía y colabore como una herramienta práctica para seguir implementando el poder transformador de la ciencia inclusiva.
April 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM