Danny Kingsley

SIGH: It isn't enough that this merger is the result of a plan to increase the university ranking level - yes university rankings that are based on methodology so poor that they would never pass an ethics application - but the SA govt is also throwing money at Elsevier for analyses about the merger

Very grateful for Danny Kingsley's comprehensive notes from #OASPA2025. See her LinkedIn posts summarising and commenting on this year's conference!

#aibeyond2025 - @heroicendeavour.bsky.social speaks to "Reclaiming agency in the new world of AI" and whether we as individuals are a passenger or a pilot in this space.
Discussion of AI Determinism and whether the encouraged adoption of a new tool fits our library requirements.

#aibeyond2025 - @aj-boston.bsky.social discusses the variation of views and opinions between AI evangelists and AI atheists and how, despite *however much we may want to*, we can't simply avoid discussion of "AI".

Picture of room with technology and screens

SETTING UP- the amazing team behind today’s Symposium- “Beyond Certainty- What does 'Discovery' mean in an open and artificially intelligent world?" #AIBeyond

www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...

Well, the UN are up for Open Science. Are you?

OPEN - NOW!: Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board on:
Open Science www.un.org/scientific-a... "this Scientific Advisory Board calls for urgent cooperation to advance science as a global public good – and we stress that doing so requires accelerated transformation to open science."

PROGRESS: HHMI budgets can no longer be used to pay APCs at hybrid journals hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm... HHMI will seek to replace APC
payments from HHMI lab budgets with centralized support of publisher service fees, including transparent peer review services for preprints.

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?"

If you are heading Brisbane - way let me know! I can show you around.

LAST CALL: Beyond Certainty-What does 'Discovery' mean in an open & artificially intelligent world? #AIBeyond2025
Wed 8 Oct - www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
Keynote @mcintold.bsky.social
Videos from @aj-boston.bsky.social, @heroicendeavour.bsky.social @aarontay.bsky.social + live discussions!

RELEVANT to our symposium #AIBeyond2025 "Beyond Certainty - What does 'Discovery' mean in an open and artificially intelligent world?"
Wed 8th October from 9.30am AEDT. Full program and speaker details -https://www.deakin.edu.au/library/about/projects-and-initiatives/beyond-certainty

RESOURCE for publishers - AI Opportunity Map www.ce-strategy.com/services/ai-...

INNOVATIVE: "The AAS calculates article publication charges using an approach that counts “digital quanta”, units of information in digital form that the author supplies. Digital quanta can include words, figures, tables, data components, and figure set." journals.aas.org/article-char...

Language co-option in the open space Coming down from the recent FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) and FORCE2024 conference at UCLA has allowed reflection on some of the recurring themes from the two events. One of these w...

WEAPONISED- language has been in the centre of the open debate from the start upstream.force11.org/language-co-...

That is a very, very specific reference…

Was that a 50m or 25m pool Elisabeth? If 50m that is a very fast time!

Learn Your Way: Reimagining textbooks with generative AI

TOOL: Not sure how/if copyright is managed with this: "Learn Your Way: Reimagining textbooks with generative AI" research.google/blog/learn-y...

GEARING UP: Join more than 300 people attending our symposium: "Beyond Certainty – what does ‘Discovery’ mean in an open and artificially intelligent world?" www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
8 October 9:30am AEST
#AIBeyond2025

Graph showing accumulation of LinkedIn impressions over the past week - reaching 7,798

INTEREST: presumably because of the #OASPA2025 summaries!

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

USEFUL: Generative Al License Tracker from Ithaca S+R sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen... Tracking deals publishers have with companies licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLM

(Noting the 'their content' aspect of this - read your publishing agreements folks before signing)

HOME! just under exactly one week away at #OASPA2025 - left home 7.30pm last Friday, back 6.30pm this Friday. All up approx 60 hours in transit(!). Worth it. Great conference, great people, good ideas, beautiful location. Thanks OASPA!

DELIGHTED to see the wonderful @martateperek.bsky.social represented here!

1/ With speakers now addressing the central question of "why do you care about open access"? I'm not sure actually what my own answer would be. But I think part of it would borrow from what @rupertgatti.bsky.social said yesterday, which is that open access is for many of us not a sufficient goal

FINAL summary notes for #OASPA2025 - www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...
and www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...

Thanks for a great conference folks!

FRESH HORROR- this is what Starbucks in Brussels thinks a white tea is. Just wow.

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

Tracking the Use of Open Educational Resources Sounds Simple. It Isn’t. We set out to determine whether open monographs were being used in teaching and learning and fell down a very deep hole. Here is what we learned.

Danny - OAPEN books are by definition not textbooks, but we know they are being used for teaching & learning. Conclusion (in Katina article): need a system like COUNTER for eBooks. katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #OASPA2025

RIO Journal 5 years on: over 300 published outcomes from all around the research cycle | Blog Five years on, the Open Science-driven journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) published an editorial that looks back on the 300 research ideas and research outcomes it has published so far. Since i...

👂We hear that recognising & opening up #research outputs beyond #research articles has come up multiple times at #OASPA2025.

🫣We suspect there are those not yet aware of our #openscience #journal: optimising #scholarly #communication for research ideas, grant proposals, guidelines etc.

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Some reflections on the OASPA conference in Leuven: are we on the verge of a paradigm change? I was only able to attend one day of the OASPA conference in Leuven, but I’d like to share a few reflections. Throughout the sessions, presentations, and one-on-one conversations, I sometimes sensed a...

FWIW: I made some notes of a few of my observations following my one-day visit of the @oaspa.bsky.social conference this year in Leuven.

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