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mikaellaakso.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Information Studies @ Tampere University, Finland. Conducting research, teaching, and supervision on scholarly communication, open science, and meta-research.
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We're advertising another postdoc on @morphss.bsky.social. This is a two-year position at Sheffield working on open research practices in the social sciences (particularly data sharing) with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD201/r...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Are preprints reshaping journal publishing—or being absorbed into it? Our new paper in JDoc examines the dynamics at play! 👀 With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social, & Irene Pasquetto 📖 doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... (1/🧵)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

RECRUITING: The @copim.bsky.social project is looking for somebody to work full time (until end April 2026) on archiving and preservation of #OABooks. Based at Loughborough Uni vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Closing date 3 March

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Ehdokkaat Vuoden tiedekirjaksi: tiedekustantajat.fi/tiedotteet/v...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It has been six months since I started in my new position at Tampere University and today the university published a short interview with me. It is a short read if you are interested in what I´m doing and how I ended up working here in the first place. www.tuni.fi/en/news/asso...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Suomen tiedekustantajien liiton etäluentosarja Perjantaipajan toinen tapaaminen järjestetään 21.2. Tuolloin @mikaellaakso.bsky.social kertoo avoimesta vertaisarvioinnista. Perjantaipajan luennot pidetään kerran kuussa Zoomissa klo 13-14.30, ja ne ovat kaikille avoimia ja maksuttomia.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This is a cool way to browse around in the data! Please someone do something similar but for only open access books that can can be read through a single click from the global shelf.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Akatemiahankehakemus jätetty😌Juhannuksena nähdään oliko tästä hyötyä, toistaiseksi en ole onnistunut olemaan ~15% parhaiden joukossa. Ainakin tuli CV:t sun muut laput päivitettyä joten ei tämä joka tapauksessa ihan hyödyöntä näppäilyä ollut.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I'm excited to spread the word of the open position for Senior Manger of the Open Research Funders Group. This is a dream job for any #OpenAccess advocate. Great people, great work & a huge opportunity to make an impact. sparcopen.org/who-we-are/c...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

A preprint by @rupertgatti.bsky.social, Pierre Mounier, and myself on the meaning of #DiamondOpenAccess beyond 'no fee'. zenodo.org/records/1444...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open! We’re after ideas for sessions, talks, posters & online symposia. Deadline 7 February metascience.info/call-for-pro... And if you haven’t already, save the date! 30 June to 2 July #Metascience25 @briannosek.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Vertaisarviointi on tärkeää mutta pääosin näkymätöntä työtä. Tänä vuonna olen arvioinut yli kymmenen tutkimusartikkelikäsikirjoitusta, aikaa siihen on mennyt paljon mutta samalla oppii myös itse. Osallistu myös sinä #vertaisarvioin kampanjaan! Tietoa ja materiaalit: sivistys.fi/tapahtumakal...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

✨Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor in Indigenous Publishing (in my program)! It is pretty remarkable we can have this role. No PhD required. I hope you can help us find the best candidate: www.sfu.ca/publishing/n...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Kirjoittajille maksutonta avointa julkaisemista voi tukea ja edistää monin tavoin, tiedelehdillä on monet rajapinnat.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Nature editorial on the challenges of digital preservation, including our work on vanished #openaccess journals led by @mikaellaakso.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Did I mention that I'm looking for a new role? If anyone is interested in award-winning work on digital preservation, digital textuality, fixing scholcomms systems and their economics, or even just plain old literary criticism, please get in touch.

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

Finally! Zotero is now available in beta form for android devices, play.google.com/store/apps/d..., get it while it´s hot, they are still limiting the number of downloads during the beta testing phase.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

New edited volume: Challenges in Research Policy And it's open access! 👍 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

New preprint out today with @ekulczycki.bsky.social @jpolonen.bsky.social, @zehrataskin.bsky.social. If you are interested in better data on publishing learned societies ▶️ "Learned societies in the academic landscape: Challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations." doi.org/10.31235/osf...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Building open scholarly infrastructure: A journey of collaboration and diplomacy - Edward Pentz, 2024 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/18758789241296761

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments