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Two great events next week at @ucclibrary.bsky.social ! All welcome! #OpenAccessWeek

Check out the upcoming events for Open Access Week 2025 at UCC: libcal.ucc.ie/event/4442839. An event by Sonraí also helps researchers with getting started with open research: libcal.ucc.ie/event/4437252. Registration is now open, but seats are getting scarce!

Congratulations to Arran Bradstock from Maynooth University Library! Arran's blog post 'A Story for the Ages: A Tale of Engagement and Impact' was highly commended in the CONUL Training and Development Library Assistant Blog awards. Read it now over at www.libfocus.com

"While 92% of undergraduate students are using Generative AI, only 36% said they had been offered support by their university". Wow, that needs to change!

Views on AI use in Peer review getting more polarised. ioppublishing.org/ai-and-peer-...

Launch - Navigating Open Research: A guide for Early Career Researchers Join us for the launch of Navigating Open Research, a new national guide designed to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland. Inspired by similar initiatives in France and the...

Join us for the launch of Navigating Open Research – A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Learn what the guide is and how it was created. 4 Sept, 1200. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4398826

Increased submissions drive Springer Nature profit higher - Research Professional News Research segment reported to be “key driver” of publisher’s 10 per cent operating profit growth

Just the annual reminder of the profit margins of the "Big Two" academic publishers: Elsevier 37%, Springer Nature 26%. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Explore urgent issues through open access reading - Transforming Society A curated collection of open access works explores urgent global challenges, from climate grief and AI ethics to inequality, migration, and political representation, offering critical insights for…

A curated collection of #OpenAccess works explores urgent global challenges, from climate grief and AI ethics to inequality, migration, and political representation, offering critical insights for study and teaching: #RecommendedReads #ReadingList buff.ly/8gpJqU4

📢 Register for the Navigating Open Research launch webinar - a new national guide to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland.

📅 Sep 4 at 12–1.30PM (IST)

The webinar will introduce the guide, share insights and use cases.
Register here👉 norf.ie/launch-navig...

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #ECR

Anyone interested in libraries and games, we had two days of gaming fun at @ucclibraryresearch.bsky.social and have blogged about it: theriverside.ucc.ie/2025/08/05/r...

Interesting thoughts!

Can anyone explain why our institutional Open Access rates are consistently lower in Scopus than on OpenAlex? For 2024 it is 58% in Scopus to 68% in OpenAlex, and the difference is 7-11% in previous years. I have ideas but not sure they explain the situation fully.

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

Are there studies on the idea that funding agencies could stipulate that the work they support must be published in non-profit journals? Mentioned here: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Elsevier journal under fire over ‘AI-generated’ review comments Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated

Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated

#AcademicSky #highered

This is a very interesting case that will be watched by many University Presses!

#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter 🧪

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?

Intern Rita Aksenfeld's first story for Retraction Watch

Who knows more about AI generated podcasts on research papers like Academic.edu is offering? Are there concerns and is this legal? wisblawg.law.wisc.edu/2025/06/24/e...

Imagine hitting a paywall on The New York Times or The Atlantic, and a little popup says "Available through [Your Public Library] - Click to access" and takes you there. Academic libraries have this with browser extensions like LibKey and Lean Library. I wonder if it's a thing for public libraries?

Shush 296 - Luigina Ciolfi Takeover On this week’s show, my guest was Luigina Colfi. Luigina is Professor of Human Computer Interaction in the School of Applied Psychology at UCC. Her research explores how digital technologies fit into

Looking forward to listening to @luiciolfi.bsky.social on our @ucclibrary.bsky.social Shush show! soundcloud.com/shush-radio-...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Is Springer becoming the new MDPI? Not a question I thought we'd be asking this year but there is good evidence supporting it. The Springer "Discover" Open Access journals very similar to MDPI. the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Join us for the Open Repositories Ireland (ORI) Group meeting on 10 June, 1200-1300. www.universityofgalway.ie/openreposito.... This is a friendly and informal community event and everyone who is involved in repository work is welcome. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4374649

This looks amazing!

RLUK DSF talk information card with headshot photo of speaker Richard Ovenden and green text of event title and date.

🟢 #RLUKDSF | Knowledge Stewardship | 🗓️ 11 June

Join us in June to hear @richove.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social talk about long-term sustainability of knowledge & strategies 4 ensuring continued access + challenges 4 libraries as stewards of knowledge in uncertain times

🎟️ bit.ly/RLUKDSF

'AI is already eating its own': Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct Three years into the boom, it looks like AI is reshaping existing jobs more than creating new ones.

Are there any "AI Library jobs" in existence or is it part of everyone's role? www.fastcompany.com/91327911/pro...

Images clockwise top left to bottom right: A large yellow building with a turret, the pope dressed in white addressing an audience of cardinals with red hats, two people sitting in a bright room with tables and chairs, a man with his hand to his head standing between rows of books, a woman dressed in red, a graphic of a man standing in front of a keyhole

Our May link-out is finally here! Read about libraries as political battlegrounds and as champions of good, get the latest on open access and ChatGPT and find out what the pope thinks about AI. This and more at www.libfocus.com

The @irelibrary.bsky.social Advisory Committee has reviewed and redrafted IReL’s principles for negotiations with academic publishers: irel.ie/wp-content/u...

Great reflection on the importance of libraries to society, now more than ever, from University Librarian at Maynooth University @cathalmccauley.bsky.social

Does anyone know how this collaboration with #perplexityai will look like in practice? Will libraries be involved? www.uksg.org/newsletter/w...

University College Cork - Head of Content Services University College Cork - Head of Content Services vacancy represented by Anderson Quigley executive search firm in London, UK.

We are looking for a new Head of Content Services here at @ucclibrary.bsky.social! Deadline 27 May: andersonquigley.com/ucc-library/ #libraryjobs