Danny Kingsley

The Open Journals Collective is growing! If you're interested in helping shape the future and sustainability of Diamond Open Access publishing, then check out these roles at OJC.

👇

That sucks Todd. But also we are slaves to our smart watches!

COMPREHENSIVE and excellent set of slides here - explaining why WoS and Scopus are no longer fit for purpose, describing the changing nature of publishing globally. Relevant for OJS work and diamond OA as well. From @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The UK Reproducibility Network

RESOURCE: training materials for all things Open oercommons.org/hubs/ukrn

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

The Buzz Surrounding the World’s Top 2% Scientists What about the 98% who are doing the Science?

METRICS (what are they good for?) - an article about why the Stanford Top 2% list is problematic thewire.in/science/the-...

Guest Post — What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored? - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.

NOT A MUSEUM (of books) - the central role of libraries in universities explained here scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/02/g...

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Leopards, faces, etc.

FRUSTRATION: I have always hated corporate speak. As an ex-journalist & Plain English writing teacher I just can't understand the language. The latest one that is really doing my head in is 'playbooks' which are sets of instructions, each one called a 'play'. Entirely nonsensical. Just stop. Please.

How big is the pollinator?!!!

After attending the International Research Integrity Conference the past three days, I will be at the AIMOS2025 conference the rest of the week, also in Sydney.

Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025

aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

SLOP from an apparent chatbot writing letters to the editor. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s... I fear the pollution of GenAI affecting the academic discourse. One wonders how long before the snake eats its own tail. It is looking more and more ouroboros-like.

Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack? - The Scholarly Kitchen We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?

VARIETY: "Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack?" the spoiler alert is the response to the use of AI in their work lives is very mixed, including a conscious decision not to use it scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/13/a...

RELEVANT to the two talks from @oai-ge.bsky.social we just watched as part of our Australian satellite event -
'Open Source AI: Propagation of Open Source Licenses in the Age of AI' +
'Open Science, Next Generation Metrics, and the World of Publishing'
See the recordings here oai.events

To reform universities, first tackle global rankings Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.

'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies'

@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

F1000Research Article: Current market rates for scholarly publishing services. Read the latest article version by Alexander Grossmann, Björn Brembs, at F1000Research.

I don’t think that’s true, these publishers have HUGE overheads that pay processes that have nothing to do with journal production. And even the production cost could be reduced. Eg, if you don’t sell subscriptions or APCs, you don’t need sales dept!
Must read: f1000research.com/articles/10-20

TWO SIDES - to the introduction of AI into research in a presentation by Caroline Welte "Developing scalable learning opportunities about generative AI" - as part of a satellite event for OAI14 - @oai-ge.bsky.social oai.events/oai14/satell...

#OAI14 has now come to a close. Over 500 individuals signed in to join sessions during the week. All the recordings will be available at oai.events/oai14/ going forwards. 5 watch parties have been organised to study the talks in greater depth - see oai.events/oai14/satell... for details.

#force2026 #researcher #librarian #practitioner #innovator #force11 #scholarlycommunication | FORCE11 The #FORCE2026 Call for Proposals is now closed – and what a response! Over 100 submissions from 28 countries worldwide. Thank you to every #researcher, #librarian, #practitioner, and #innovator who ...

Bumper crop of submissions for FORCE 2026 to be held in Singapore 3-5 June 2026! Thank you for your support!

www.linkedin.com/posts/force1...

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

Preserving Human Ingenuity for a Future Planet Ruled By Octopuses - The Scholarly Kitchen An engineer and musician teaches an octopus to play the piano.

ASTONISHING - teaching an octopus to play a piano scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/14/t...?

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

JOIN US! for series of 1 hour Watch Parties over 3 days to view curated talks from last week's OAI Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication @oai-ge.bsky.social Timed to suit folks in Australasia.
Details: oai.events/oai14/satell...
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AkS1MEFrJ...

REFRESHING HONESTY about the run around journals put authors through. That the community has put up with this for so long says mountains about our flawed and problematic assessment system. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/m...

SHOx: Shortform Hosting at Oxford

INITIATIVE: Bodleian Libraries is launching SHOx (Short-form Hosting at Oxford), a new hosting service supporting Oxford’s community of scholars in publishing short-form research titles such as journals, working paper collections, and conference proceedings. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox

SCEPTIC, I am afraid, about the ability for text matching to identify actual impact www.cabidigitallibrary.org/do/10.5555/n... I have worked in the impact space and demonstrating impact, let alone causality is extremely complex. It's more than just a text search.

Researcher of the Future: Confidence in Research In this report, learn how researchers are adapting to rapid AI change, shifting funding landscapes, and new expectations for collaboration and impact.

SOMBRE: the mood amongst researchers according to an Elsevier study www.elsevier.com/en-gb/insigh... I imagine publishers are also feeling sombre - the financial environment is not looking strong for deals with them either

Not sure it would want to cuddle you back…! There are literally whole research projects trying to resurrect the thylacine- there’s a specimen preserved in alcohol not formaldehyde.

OUP acquires Karger's long tail Hello fellow journalologists,

"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."

Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.

NEW WORD: Malinformation - "information which is based on fact, but removed from its original context in order to mislead, harm, or manipulate" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinfo...