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💥New: Why are UK universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements? #OpenAccess #Elsevier #AcademicLibraries blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Taylor & Francis’ decision to sell access to its academic publications to allow Microsoft to train its AI system has raised concerns over plagiarism and accusations that researchers have been misled timeshighereducation.com/news/academic-…

How to promote your article and impact policy - free webinar with me and Sean Scarisbrick from @Sage_Publishing. Register now (takes place this November) sagepub.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Does the mass resignation of editors from two Elsevier journals mean the whole sector is close to a tipping point? This article is an attempt to understand the extent to which other journals are in a position to follow and if so, when. cilip.org.uk/news/645503/Wh…

Predatory publishing is not just about journals. There are predatory book publishers. See our checklist for books and chapters. bit.ly/3TJ3nea

We are live! Delighted to share our new website. Full of free resources for educators to enhance disability literacy and representation. Take a look and let us know what you think qmutoyboxdiversitylab.com #representationmatters #Disability #education

⏰ Only 1 week left to go! Remember to RVSP to 'Peer Review & Publishing', a 3-part online event on Wed 15 May! 🗓️ Open to Scotland-based arts & humanities doctoral researchers! Attendees welcome to sign up for the whole day or just 1 session! 📚 🔗 tockify.com/sgsah/detail/2…

We have been asked to provide clarity on the REF2029 position on trade books. We confirm that trade books are out of scope in the REF2029 Open Access Policy and are therefore not subject to open access requirements. The consultation and website are updated ref.ac.uk/guidance/ref-2…

Free to read, free to publish, and entirely open source. Find out more about Octopus.ac in this short video ji.sc/introducing-oc…

‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point theguardian.com/science/2024/f…

Why I left the editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage — and helped start something new statnews.com/2024/02/01/sci… via @statnews

Open-access papers draw more citations from a broader readership | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

The same issues confronted by authors looking to publish in journals, also confront authors seeking to publish a book or a chapter. We’ve just updated our checklist for Books and Chapters is updated. bit.ly/3WnYsAh

Delighted to finish off the year with publishing the first Approaches journal issue to be hosted on our QMU Journals OJS platform: journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches/ind… . Very grateful to all @EdinDiamond for their patient advice and assistance.🙂

Following the REF initial decisions consultation, we're announcing some updates - most importantly that the next REF will be REF 2029. This is in recognition of the complexities for HEIs in preparing for the exercise.

The webinar recording and slides are now online! Check it out ➡️ oa2020.org/2023/11/20/bew… #openaccess🔓 #copyright