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📢 Punks Listen Fanzine Event 📅 March 31, 6–8 PM 📍 Creative Zone, Boole Library A panel of special guests will share the records that shaped them 🎟️ Zine for sale + raffle with great prizes 💙 All money raised goes to Irish Red Cross Ukraine Refugee Appeal libcal.ucc.ie/event/4354232

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Interesting idea of a "‘G+ index’ — G representing generosity, giving and other ‘good things’ in academia." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We Could Use a Model Licensing Framework for Scholarly Content Use in AI Tools scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/26/w...

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Our February link-out is hot off the press! Find out about disappearing data, AI junk science, inclusive library collections, the first Valentine's love letter, the fight against publisher package deals, how to show up for your students and much more at libfocus.com

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Interesting (and slightly scary) interview with Nick Wiser, new integrity office at Taylor & Francis: "I thought I was fairly cynical about the kinds of misconduct that goes on, but it turns out I am not cynical enough." retractionwatch.com/2025/02/18/n...

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This is one to register for! This Thursday!

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Organizations representing creative industries (including @americanpublish.bsky.social) release joint statement "calling for oversight and regulation of artificial intelligence development, focusing on respect for copyright and related intellectual property" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w... #medlibs

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Good news stories are needed more than ever. www.science.org/content/arti...

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UKRI provides updates on its #openaccess book policy, and publishes case studies and tools for researchers and publishers on publishing open access. www.ukri.org/news/progres...

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What is important when you choose a journal to publish in, we asked this morning in a @ucclibrary.bsky.social workshop. Turns out graduate students really value the guidance of their supervisors.

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DEIA and Doing the Right Thing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/11/d...

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📢CALL FOR ARTICLE ABSTRACTS📢 Aigne is seeking submissions on the theme: "Response: Reflection and Action" ✍️ Abstracts: 250–500 words 📅Deadline: Feb 21 📝 Full papers (4,000–7,000 words) due by May 4 🔗Details: aigne.ucc.ie/index.php/ai... 📣 Please share widely!

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I would urge anyone with any interest in HE and the UK scholarly publishing landscape to read this excellent piece by @tweeterbarr.bsky.social about exiting the Elsevier deal...

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💥New: @tweeterbarr.bsky.social explains why academic libraries are making these decisions and what it says about the wider academic publishing sector in the UK. #HigherEducation #ScholComm #OpenAccess blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️ We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!! Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/

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Not really surprised. Never felt like it was what we needed. Anyone upset?

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Two fun days of #UX Training in @ucclibrary.bsky.social with @andypriestner.bsky.social. We learned lots and got our hands data dirty!

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Interesting stat, but Microsoft Academic was shut down in 2022...

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More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, according to study using data from Microsoft Academic Graph www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“The nature of the channel…no longer aligns with our university values of collaboration, compassion, inclusivity and integrity,” www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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📝 A survey reveals "publish or perish" pressure, small samples, flawed analysis, and data manipulation fuel the biomedical research reproducibility crisis. ➡️ Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenData #OpenSource

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End of big deals is a chance to build a better publishing system. Don’t waste a crisis—invest in more open and equitable business models, says David Prosser. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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“Until we acknowledge that publish or perish is the natural consequence of the rankings obsession, we’re not going to fix anything.” Our Ivan Oransky speaks with @nature.com.

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Would you like to join the fight against paper mills? Now's your chance! #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #JobAlert

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This #OpenAccess initiative from Lancaster University Library is great to see, and we might get some ideas for our own Diamond Open Access journals at University College Cork Library (journals.ucc.ie): portal.lancaster.ac.uk/ask/study/li...

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New blogpost: gobbledegook papers as canaries in the coalmine- and more bad news for MDPI deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...

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Really good introduction to Open Alex! And yes, not quite there yet but on a very promising trajectory.

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University staff fear that students are becoming increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence tools, and are not critical enough of their output #highered #EduSky

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My colleagues and friends in the library @ucclibrary.bsky.social are killing it with these Research Essentials Workshops. libguides.ucc.ie/ResearchEsse...

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With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

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Exclusive: ‘Lots more’ university libraries could drop big subscription deals. After several institutions drop Elsevier deals, senior librarians say rising costs and severe financial strain have reached a “tipping point”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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"At least three were under the names of real Japanese researchers, but each of them told us that they had nothing to do with the papers, their names had been used without permission. [...] The conclusion for all three was, "it is believed that generative AI created it." mainichi.jp/english/arti...

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Not sure this will go down well with authors, An AI generated "media kit" for 49USD. futurism.com/springer-nat...

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📢 We’re Hiring: University Librarian at UCC The University Librarian will provide strategic leadership, guiding our team and supporting UCC’s teaching, research, & scholarly communications. 👉 Learn more and apply here: ore.ucc.ie #lisjobs #libraryjobs

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UCC Library is looking for a new Library Director! (Vacancies / University Librarian, UCC Library). www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... #libjobs

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👉 Danish universities, like Aarhus University, are embracing patent-free #OpenInnovation models to foster collaboration between #academia and industry, stimulate high-risk #research, and address #Europe’s innovation gap. 🙌 Find out more: tinyurl.com/424pt9uh #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenResearch

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York is the next university to drop its big deal with Elsevier www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Did you know that “Ninety percent of everything is crap”. Kind of makes sense if you think about it... medianwatch.netlify.app/post/sturgeon/

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Do withdrawn preprints make a case for peer review? "The methodological errors in manuscripts are generally rooted out through peer review". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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