Mikael Laakso

Two post-doc positions in CNRS on international projects in Paris, for 17 & 24 months on #STS. The first one on #openscience monitoring, the second one on #opendata in research evaluation. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.

This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals Abstract. Although the organisational aspects of scholarly journals—such as the types of organisations responsible for publishing individual journals, whether independently or in collaboration—have si...

74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....

How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books? As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of d...

New article in Katina Magazine: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'

Intended as an intervention into the ongoing discussions & activity around #DiamondOA to bring books into focus, the authors want to foster further conversations on this topic & invite feedback.

Comment yours below 👇

A real treat! Mikael Laakso is doing a talk on digital preservation and #OA publications!! @mikaellaakso.bsky.social

🎤 “Long-Term Preservation of Open Access Publications: Facts, Current Practices, and Future Outlook” by Mikael Laakso

👉 Register here:
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📢 New in UKSG Insights: A model to help publishers implement globally fair and transparent pricing |
Discover practical ideas to make pricing more equitable across regions.
👉 Read more: insights.uksg.org/articles/10....
#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing @lorraineestelle.bsky.social

Erinomainen nosto! Minä olen kovasti kateellinen tästä panostuksesta. Tieteen tekemistä pitäisi tutkia, toistaiseksi se on todella hankalaa koska pitää istua tiukasti joko esim. filosofiseen, bibliometriseen, tiedepoliitiiseen, tai eettiseen muottiin jotta rahoitusta ja julkaisuja saisi kasaan.

Happy to announce the soft launch of DoLS - the Directory of Learned Societies, an open, growing database of learned societies and their journals worldwide, facilitating visibility, networking, and community-building!

Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...

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Smart use of LLM to classify the policy statements! Will definitely have a read through this.

institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus

- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release

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It is that time of the year again 🎉Walt Crafword's most recent comprehensive review of the composition of journals and articles by journals included in the DOAJ is out. APC-based article volumes keep consistently growing while no-fee/Diamond journals are largely stagnant in terms of growth.

The Open Science Cookbook ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting ope...

Our latest book - "The Open Science Cookbook," edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee - is a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research. bit.ly/3ZnmRKA #openscience

Tuore Signum 2/2025 painottuu #avointiede teemoihin. Mukana @mikaellaakso.bsky.social haastattelu. Lisäksi aiheina mm. JYX #julkaisuarkisto, #Annif automaattisen asiasanoituksen osuvuus, #robotiikka, ja kirjastojen rooli #teknologiakehitys ja #TKI-investoinnit suuntaamisessa. journal.fi/signum

📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess
doi.org/10.31235/osf...

As we write in the paper, press releases are a particular genre of content that need to be taken for what they are and are not compareable to e.g. 1-1 interviews. It was quite exciting to dig into this (for us) new type of research data in the context of scholarly publishing.Any feedback is welcome!

📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess
doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Kuva 10-tahoisesta nopasta ja teksti: Minkälaista on olla mies pelikulttuurissa? Osallistu tutkimukseen: bit.ly/pelikulttuuri Tutkimus on tarkoitettu vähintään 15-vuotiaille suomalaisille tai Suomessa asuville miehille. Kuvan alareunassa on Tampereen yliopiston logo.

Mies! Oletko vähintään 15 ja suomalainen tai Suomessa asuva?

Osallistutko pelikulttuuriin esim. pelaamalla video-, rooli-, lauta- tai miniatyyripelejä, katsomalla pelivideoita tai vaikkapa cossaamalla?

Tervetuloa vastaamaan kyselyyn pelikulttuurista ja mieheydestä osoitteessa bit.ly/pelikulttuuri

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If you're interested in learning more about #Collaboration in #DiamondOA publishing (successes & failures!), why not read the #DIAMAS report @mikaellaakso.bsky.social

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Next week is going to be fun! Join the web stream to take part in this conference that is happening on Tuesday next week.

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...

Data sources used in bibliometrics 1978–2022: From proprietary databases to the great wide open - Lindelöw - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology - Wiley Online Library https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.25018

The resilience of open science in times of crisis The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

Science is under attack. In this post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and I detail events around 5 types of threats, and we propose a resilience model to safeguard scientific communities and open infrastructures.

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"Governing the scholarly AI Commons" report cover with Open Future background image.

🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons".
Read more ⬇️
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YouTube video by Tampere University Mikael Laakso

Here is a short video introduction to my research topics produced by Tampere University. I think it is nice that these are being made for researchers to put faces and voices to otherwise static faculty listings. Slow motion library antics included 🐢📚💻. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPi...

Adoption of preprinting per discipline and region

Preprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? How does this vary by discipline and region?

Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, I just published article answering these questions. osf.io/preprints/so...

Towards an inclusive Open Science: examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas | Royal Society Open Science National, international and organizational Open Science (OS) policies are being formulated to improve and accelerate research through increased transparency, collaboration and better access to scienti...

1/5🧵After a long trip through peer review limbo, our paper on inclusion and public participation in Open Science policy is finally out!
📖 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Open science annual review 2024: news from Finland and abroad The Open Science Annual Review brings together news from Finland and abroad for 2024. The domestic news summarises national open science policies, highlights award-winning open educational resources a...

What did 2024 look like from the perspective of #OpenScience? Annual review topics include diamond OA channels, award-winning open educational resources, publishers' AI agreements, a lawsuit against major publishers and Plan S impact assessment: blogs.helsinki.fi/thinkopen/op... #openaccess

This new preprint by @najko.bsky.social is really interesting for anyone into bibliometric data quality and/or hybrid open access through transformative agreements.

Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.

Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: journals that adopt predatory practices after being acquired — My latest for @nature.com:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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