Hardy Schwamm

Community Heritage Event, Athlone - Oral History Network of Ireland Join us for OHNI’s first FREE in-person event of 2026, 'Craft, Care and Community' oral history heritage event, supported by The Heritage Council. Registration is open to ALL, members and non-members....

📣Final tickets remain! 📣

Join OHNI's FREE #oralhistory Craft, Care & Community event supported by @heritagecouncil.ie

🗓️Sat 21 Feb
🕤 09:30–16:30
🏨Sheraton Athlone Hotel

🫖Includes refreshments & light lunch.

🎟️https://buytickets.at/oralhistorynetworkireland/2022806

#OHNI #HeritageCouncil #iCAN

DRI is sharing metadata with OpenAIRE - Digital Repository of Ireland DRI is pleased to announce that Repository metadata is now being shared with OpenAIRE, enhancing the discoverability of publications and datasets across Europe and Ireland.  The Digital Repository of ...

DRI is pleased to announce that Repository metadata is now being shared with OpenAIRE, enhancing the discoverability of publications and datasets across Europe and Ireland 🔎📖

Read more on our latest blog: dri.ie/news/dri-is-...

#OpenAIRE #OpenAccess #ResearchCommunity #Discoverability

We’re hiring! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Interesting. Hasn't happened to me yet.

Predatory Publishing Please note this is an online session. Have you ever received emails from journal editors requesting your contributions and wondered if they are legitimate or predatory? This...

Have you ever received emails from journal editors requesting your contributions and wondered if they are legitimate or predatory? Learn more at our @ucclibrary.bsky.social workshop on 4th December. All welcome! libcal.ucc.ie/calendar/cla...

Love the mix of global and Irish at NORFest! Great presentation from my colleague Donna from @ucclibrary.bsky.social on UCC APCs. The bottom line: we pay at least €400k per year on top of OA agreements.

📣 Call for Proposals - #LIBER2026

We invite the research library community to submit proposals for presentations, workshops, panel sessions, or posters, and be part of next year's conference in Trondheim, Norway.

⌛Submission deadline: 5 Jan 2026.

Read the full call: https://ow.ly/mPyI50XkQac

Grade VI – OER (Open Educational Practices) Librarian // TUS Midlands (Athlone) @tuslibrarymidlands.bsky.social @tuslibrarymidwest.bsky.social #LISJobsIE #libraryjobs #jobfairy
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New offers from big five ‘still too costly’ for UK universities ‘Significant’ number of institutions predicted to drop deals with main scholarly imprints, leaving journal access much reduced

'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3

Great to present yesterday as part of #OpenAccessWeek 2025 about #ScenarioJournal - journals.ucc.ie/index.php/sc...

Thanks for the opportunity @ucclibraryresearch.bsky.social and great to hear about the range of student journals in UCC, the future of #OpenAccess is in safe hands!

Today's #OpenAccessWeek event at @ucclibrary.bsky.social was called "Unlocking Open Research: From First Steps to Lasting Impact" (libcal.ucc.ie/calendar/Eve...), focusing on PaPOR TraIL, the Navigating Open Research guide and checklists for research data management and OA publishing.

We opened #OpenAccessWeek 2025 at University College Cork Library with an event on our UCC Diamond Open Access journals: Pathways to your first publication – celebrating the diversity and impact of UCC’s Open Access Journals. journals.ucc.ie

Open Access Pathways - celebrating #OpenAccessWeek @ucclibrary.bsky.social @hardyschwamm.bsky.social presenting an overview of the importance of Open Access

Two great events next week at @ucclibrary.bsky.social ! All welcome! #OpenAccessWeek

Check out the upcoming events for Open Access Week 2025 at UCC: libcal.ucc.ie/event/4442839. An event by Sonraí also helps researchers with getting started with open research: libcal.ucc.ie/event/4437252. Registration is now open, but seats are getting scarce!

Congratulations to Arran Bradstock from Maynooth University Library! Arran's blog post 'A Story for the Ages: A Tale of Engagement and Impact' was highly commended in the CONUL Training and Development Library Assistant Blog awards. Read it now over at www.libfocus.com

"While 92% of undergraduate students are using Generative AI, only 36% said they had been offered support by their university". Wow, that needs to change!

Views on AI use in Peer review getting more polarised. ioppublishing.org/ai-and-peer-...

Launch - Navigating Open Research: A guide for Early Career Researchers Join us for the launch of Navigating Open Research, a new national guide designed to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland. Inspired by similar initiatives in France and the...

Join us for the launch of Navigating Open Research – A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Learn what the guide is and how it was created. 4 Sept, 1200. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4398826

Increased submissions drive Springer Nature profit higher - Research Professional News Research segment reported to be “key driver” of publisher’s 10 per cent operating profit growth

Just the annual reminder of the profit margins of the "Big Two" academic publishers: Elsevier 37%, Springer Nature 26%. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Explore urgent issues through open access reading - Transforming Society A curated collection of open access works explores urgent global challenges, from climate grief and AI ethics to inequality, migration, and political representation, offering critical insights for…

A curated collection of #OpenAccess works explores urgent global challenges, from climate grief and AI ethics to inequality, migration, and political representation, offering critical insights for study and teaching: #RecommendedReads #ReadingList buff.ly/8gpJqU4

📢 Register for the Navigating Open Research launch webinar - a new national guide to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland.

📅 Sep 4 at 12–1.30PM (IST)

The webinar will introduce the guide, share insights and use cases.
Register here👉 norf.ie/launch-navig...

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #ECR

Anyone interested in libraries and games, we had two days of gaming fun at @ucclibraryresearch.bsky.social and have blogged about it: theriverside.ucc.ie/2025/08/05/r...

Interesting thoughts!

Can anyone explain why our institutional Open Access rates are consistently lower in Scopus than on OpenAlex? For 2024 it is 58% in Scopus to 68% in OpenAlex, and the difference is 7-11% in previous years. I have ideas but not sure they explain the situation fully.

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

Are there studies on the idea that funding agencies could stipulate that the work they support must be published in non-profit journals? Mentioned here: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Elsevier journal under fire over ‘AI-generated’ review comments Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated

Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated

#AcademicSky #highered

This is a very interesting case that will be watched by many University Presses!

#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter 🧪

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?

Intern Rita Aksenfeld's first story for Retraction Watch