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Hi all, just a quick reminder to folks in #OpenAccess, #OpenInfrastructure, #OpenPublishing, #ScholComm, and #ScholarlyPublishing communities that registration for our new, unique PKP @sfupublishing.bsky.social Open Publishing courses are open until December 12, 2025.

Secure your spot soon! ⤵️

Are you interested in Open Science?

Join our free course!

In this course you can learn more about open science and data management. It is conducted in English, and you can proceed at your own pace.

canvas.kth.se/courses/29371

KTH Library entrance

This week, we’re hosting colleagues from research libraries across Sweden at KTH Library for a network meetup on The Educational Role of Research Libraries.

Some parts of the program will be available via Zoom - feel free to join if you’re interested: www.kth.se/biblioteket/...

#ResearchSupport

Want to make your research data open and FAIR? Join a webinar on the KTH Data Repository — now with support for larger uploads and DOIs. No registration needed, just join us in Zoom!

🗓 Fri Nov 28, 11:00–12:00 (CET), Zoom

www.kth.se/en/bibliotek...

"Årets resultat är en tydlig signal till svenska politiker om att väljarna efterfrågar beslut förankrade i forskning." Ulrika Björkstén kommenterar Vetenskapsbarometern som släpptes idag. Se resultaten och ladda ner här: vetenskapallmanhet.se/2025/11/vete...

The Nuclear-Water Nexus An edited collection that takes a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water.Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. T

A #booktip for a cold november weekend:
"The nuclear-water nexus" edited by @perhogselius.bsky.social and @siegfriedevens.bsky.social

In the book 25 authors investigate how access to water has shaped the atomic age in fundamental ways.

Published as #Openaccess at @mitpress.bsky.social

Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation Millions of researchers could be affected by a “dramatic distortion of citation counts” likely caused by flaws in how the academic publishing giant Springer Nature handles article metadata, accordi…

Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation

Openscience.se Här samlas den viktigaste information om de aktörer, resurser och styrdokument som är centrala för en svensk övergång till ett öppet vetenskapssystem. Portalens mål är att vara en levande webbplats so...

Håll koll på nya sidan openscience.se (från KB, SUHF och SND) för samlad bild av övergången mot ett öppet vetenskapssystem i Sverige. #openscience

Man standing in front of a wall where several data visualizations are drawn.

Would you like to see your data but find it hard to create visualizations of it? Tomorrow we will host a webinar where
@mttvst.bsky.social
will explain his approach to exploratory datavisualization.
www.kth.se/en/bibliotek...
#KungligaTekniskaHogskolan #researchdata #dataviz

#openaccess #openscience #academicpublishing

Forskare: ”Den största vetenskapliga krisen någonsin” Falska, massproducerade och AI-genererade forskningsartiklar skapar en vetenskaplig kris, menar forskare. En ny plan i fyra punkter ska komma åt problemet.

Right now an article containing a call for reform of scientific publishing is actually making headlines in major Swedish newspaper @dagensnyheter.bsky.social . Paywalled article here www.dn.se/varlden/fors... but the original article is of course open access: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

chart of the number of research outputs from KTH researchers we've found in different repositories

Here's an experimental visualization tool for the outputs we can find - click on the gear icon to get a graph. tlavji-mattias-vesterlund.shinyapps.io/shiny_app_wo...
Image of numbers of outputs from KTH researchers published in different repositories.

We've also started to try to put together what datasets we can find (and what we can't find). From KTH and from other Swedish universities. And we have more to say about finding published data, as well as about future development that could simplify this!

#researchdata #openresearchinformation
The landscape of publishing research data in Sweden is described in a recent report some of us helped put together.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... (sorry - Swedish)

Publishing research data is becoming common. Research data is an important research output.
But finding outputs other than traditional articles is still not easy.
We're looking into how we, as a university library, can find different outputs created by KTH researchers.
#KungligaTekniskaHogskolan

@scilifelab.se @kthlibrary.bsky.social

The Open Access Week 2025 theme is: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?"
We Answer: Everyone, Every Week

Fastigheten Norra Djurgården 1:1, Tekniska Högskolan Hus 3, Norra Djurgården, Byggnadsinventering, 1992 DOKUMENT<br />Fastigheten Norra Djurgården 1:1, Tekniska Högskolan Hus 3, Norra Djurgården, Byggnadsinventering, 1992<br />Stockholms stadsmuseum, Sweden

Is anyone interested in how it looked before a library was built on the plot where we are now located? Check this out:
digitalastadsmuseet.stockholm.se/fotoweb/arch...

Digital poster that shows the itenirary for the festival. It reads: NAVET SPACE FESTIVAL 17.15-17.45: Wisdome: The Unexplored Space 17:45-18.15: Wisdome: Caelus 18.30-19.00: Trähallen: Microcosmos 19.00-19.30: Skogen: A space to Wo(a)nder 19.30-20.00: Wisdome: Caelus 20.00-20.30: Trähallen: Microcosmos 20.15-20.45: Wisdome: Caelus

Girl holding a suspended light source. The light covers her head.

Person inside a large metal ring that rolls over a wooden floor with purple ligthing.

Last Friday Navet, a KTH Centre for Research in Art, Technology and Design hosted a student festival showcasing student projects on the theme SPACE. Some really impressive research outputs at the intersection of art, technology and design!

Photo with library backgroup and portraits of the managers of the account

Welcome to KTH Library!

We post about open science, research data, bibliometrics, and scholarly publishing.

@mttvst.bsky.social (Research Data) · @linaandren.bsky.social (Open Science) · @agnelarsson.bsky.social & @tobiasjeppsson.bsky.social (Bibliometrics) · @awandahl.bsky.social (Publishing)

Open-Source and FAIR Research Software for Proteomics Scientific discovery relies on innovative software as much as experimental methods, especially in proteomics, where computational tools are essential for mass spectrometer setup, data analysis, and interpretation. Since the introduction of SEQUEST, proteomics software has grown into a complex ecosystem of algorithms, predictive models, and workflows, but the field faces challenges, including the increasing complexity of mass spectrometry data, limited reproducibility due to proprietary software, and difficulties integrating with other omics disciplines. Closed-source, platform-specific tools exacerbate these issues by restricting innovation, creating inefficiencies, and imposing hidden costs on the community. Open-source software (OSS), aligned with the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), offers a solution by promoting transparency, reproducibility, and community-driven development, which fosters collaboration and continuous improvement. In this manuscript, we explore the role of OSS in computational proteomics, its alignment with FAIR principles, and its potential to address challenges related to licensing, distribution, and standardization. Drawing on lessons from other omics fields, we present a vision for a future where OSS and FAIR principles underpin a transparent, accessible, and innovative proteomics community.

Open-Source and FAIR in relation to Proteomics to speed up research and innovation, from KTH (@lukaskall.bsky.social) and others

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

We’re now OpenAlex - OpenAlex blog For years, we’ve been working under the name OurResearch. That name sat at the top of our org chart, with three child projects under it: OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Unsub. Starting today, things are simp...

OurResearch rebrands to OpenAlex.

blog.openalex.org/were-now-ope...

Slight spring throwback; presentations from the 2nd Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure Spring Meeting can be found at Zenodo. Subjects included e.g. the Barcelona declaration, OpenAlex and more open and reproducible bibliometrics.

zenodo-rdm.web.cern.ch/communities/...

A view over KTH campus from the clock tower

A different view of the KTH campus, from the clock tower. The first experimental TV broadcasts in Sweden were made from here in the 1950s.

Guest Post - “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era - The Scholarly Kitchen AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT managem...

ATTACKS from bots are a major problem for libraries scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/07/g...
"Can we differentiate the behavior in our systems from the motives of the operating individual or organization, and should we be in the business of judging “good” and “bad” site visitors and uses?"

Can anybody relate to the equation time worked ≠ work done?
bsky.app/profile/phdc...

Scientometrics Using Open Data Open data sources such as Crossref, DataCite, ORCID, OpenAlex, OpenCitations, and many others offer important opportunities to perform scientometric analyses in more transparent, inclusive, and reprod...

Interesting course at CWTS Leiden on Scientometrics Using Open Data www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/courses/s... #openscience

Call for Volunteers — Citizen Science Project: Monitoring Federal Statistical Product Releases As part of the American Statistical Association project assessing and monitoring the health of the federal statistical agencies, the project team is launching a “Citizen Science” project. This project...

@amstatnews.bsky.social is launching a citizen science effort to monitor the health of the federal stats system. We ❤️🛟 citizen science efforts 😉

Get involved today! docs.google.com/forms/d/1jI4...