Hüseyin Murat Yücel

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing:

1. Academia resumes control of publishing

2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity

3. Independent fraud detection and prevention

4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

Blog Post and head shot of Ramazan Turgut

Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s #OpenAccess landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges #DiamondOA
blog.doaj.org/2025/09/29/a...

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control - Impact of Social Sciences Do bibliometric performance metrics, which underpin global higher education policies, also provide a means for authoritarian states to coerce academics?

💥 New: How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control

✍️ Aikerim Bektemirova #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #ScholComm

10th IFLA Green Library Award 2025 Results Announced! (via
@ifla.org) www.ifla.org/news/10th-if... #libraries #greenlibraries @nowatnpl.bsky.social

Meta veri,
"İçeriğinizin tüketileceği, kullanılacağı, satılacağı ve diğer sistemlere ekleneceği farklı yolları düşünmeye başlarsanız, meta veriler hakkında düşünmeniz yeterlidir."

Guest Post - Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals - The Scholarly Kitchen In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.

Guest Post — Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/23/g...

We showed that non-English papers receive citations largely from the same language, indicating that conservaiton evidence rarely crosses #languagebarriers. Having an English abstract = more English citations.
2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations!
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Now up on the Verso Blog: an excellent essay analyzing the political conditions on university campuses and the strategic avenues available to students (and faculty) committed to the struggle for a free Palestine

Linked data for metadata operations: An RLP Product Insights session summary - Hanging Together They main goal for linked data should be to improve metadata operations. In this recent OCLC RLP Products Insights session, metadata experts met with OCLC product management to explore challenges, opt...

Linked data for metadata operations: An RLP Product Insights session summary, by Annette Dortmund @callmeannet.bsky.social / Hanging Together- @oclc.org hangingtogether.org/linked-data-...

New STM 2029 Trends Report Provides a Bridge to the Future - The Scholarly Kitchen Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community

Catching up with @9thprime.bsky.social’s fabulous summary of the STM annual trends info graphic. So appreciate this narrative explanation of this very dense image, packed full of insights and inspiration! (Also, can we just fast forward to 2029 please?!) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/03/n...

#WorkInProgress : IA générative et outils de recherche de littérature académique La recherche d’informations et la revue de littérature académique n’échappent pas à la récente vague d’intelligence artificielle générative, promesse d’assistance et de productivité. Durant les deux a...

This is a crazy impressive but long piece on Ai impact on academic search and discovery urfistinfo.hypotheses.org/4645 by i think librarians in France (1) i was kinda planning to do a long overview like this but this makes it kinda pointless ha.

Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.

"Today, Monday 31st March 2025, is therefore a timely moment to be launching the Open Journals Collective (OJC) – an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals offered by corporate academic publishers."

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Turkish library gains global recognition for sustainability efforts Burdur Provincial Public Library in Türkiye's southern Anatolian city of Burdur has been named one of the world's top seven libraries in the...

"To promote sustainable transportation, the library has established bicycle parking areas and conducts awareness campaigns on eco-friendly mobility." #EngagedLibraries www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/turk...

Aligning E-Book Offerings with Library Needs: A Call for Dialogue and Respect https://icolc.net/statements/aligning-e-book-offerings-library-needs-call-dialogue-and-respect

Guest Post – The Future Is Not Perpetual (But it could be yours for just several thousand dollars per year...) - The Scholarly Kitchen Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a "subscription-based access strategy," meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.

"The trouble with subscription models for purchasers is that they work fine until suddenly they don’t." Good fr Isaac Wink abt how research libraries trying to preserve the scholarly record aren't the same as my Spotify access--and that 🤨Clarivate move. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/05/g...

Open repositories cannot ignore retractions and corrections - Impact of Social Sciences Repositories for academic papers often do not reflect retractions and corrections to published papers, can this be resolved?

"The number of open repositories continues to grow, yet there are no systematic plans to include visible warnings to alert readers when accessing a retracted or corrected publication."

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks? Proquest recently announced that it will be changing its business model to move away from print textbooks and monographs, solely to ebooks via a subscription-based model similar to a “Big Deal”. Ke…

💥New: As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks?

🧑‍💻Kevin O'Donovan (@lselibrary.bsky.social)

#AcademicSky #ScholComm #Libraries

OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.

Librarians, check out "OPINION: A librarian’s summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement" by @siobhanh.bsky.social www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

#AcademicSky

New study finds large print books boost student literacy development and social-emotional health 📚
librarytechnology.org/pr/31008

Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databases that support and do not hinder innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.

Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem https://upstream.force11.org/criteria-for-bibliographic-databases/

Good illustration of many of the current problems with publishing: more work pushed onto academic editors, fewer editors handling papers, copyediting undertaken by AI., etc etc. It's all about processing papers as quickly and with as little paid human input as possible.

"Akademik yayıncıların, özellikle de kitap yayıncılarının, bibliyografik referanslar sunmalarının ve bunların akademik veri tabanlarında doğru şekilde indekslenmesini sağlamaları"