Nataliia Kaliuzhna

We need to talk about better metadata in Crossref and DataCite. ROR id, ORCIDs, the lot.

In an age of AI bots that attack our open infrastructure, we also need to discuss whether papering over the gaps with industrial grade website scraping is appropriate or sustainable.

In spite of war Ukrainian academic publishing leads - LSE Impact Frances Pinter, describes how a delegation of Ukrainian librarians & publishers highlighted innovative approaches to open research & their fight to reclaim ISSNs.

💥New | In spite of war Ukrainian academic publishing leads

✍️ Frances Pinter

#AcademicPublishing #SholComms #OpenResearch

Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability!
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New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices As Open Research gains traction across the research landscape, a new report challenges funders and institutions to expand their understanding of openness to better reflect arts, humanities and social ...

New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices.

@morphss.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social

New study: The accuracy of #AI depends in part on how much knowledge is #OpenAccess.

"Artificial Intelligence and the Interpretation of the Past."
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.10110

"Open access structures the types of information that are accessible for scholars to conduct computational […]

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There is a fantastic opportunity to attend #UKSG2026 in Glasgow this spring! You can apply for a funded place. I was a bursary winner last year and it was such a rewarding experience.

Be sure to apply here by February 15, 2026: www.uksg.org/sponsored-pl...

@uksg.bsky.social

Part 1: How do LLMs work? YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Female biomedical researchers wait significantly longer to have their papers peer reviewed by journals, a new study has found. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky #peerreview
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/papers-female-scientists-spend-weeks-longer-peer-review

Registration is open for this event 16-17 March @royalsociety.org with programme (titles and abstracts) available online: royalsociety.org/science-even.... In person and online.

Causal evidence of racial and institutional biases in accessing paywalled articles and scientific data Scientific progress fundamentally depends on researchers' ability to access and build upon the work of others. Yet, a majority of published work remains behind expensive paywalls, limiting access to universities that can afford subscriptions. Furthermore, even when articles are accessible, the underlying datasets could be restricted, available only through a "reasonable request" to the authors. One way researchers could overcome these barriers is by relying on informal channels, such as emailing authors directly, to obtain paywalled articles or restricted datasets. However, whether these informal channels are hindered by racial and/or institutional biases remains unknown. Here, we combine qualitative semi-structured interviews, large-scale observational analysis, and two randomized audit experiments to examine racial and institutional disparities in access to scientific knowledge. Our analysis of 250 million articles reveals that researchers in the Global South cite paywalled papers and upon-request datasets at significantly lower rates than their Global North counterparts, and that these access gaps are associated with reduced knowledge breadth and scholarly impact. To interrogate the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, we conduct two randomized email audit studies in which fictional PhD students differing in racial background and institutional affiliation request access to paywalled articles (N = 18,000) and datasets (N = 11,840). We find that racial identity more strongly predicts response rate to paywalled article requests compared to institutional affiliation, whereas institutional affiliation played a larger role in shaping access to datasets. These findings reveal how informal gatekeeping can perpetuate structural inequities in science, highlighting the need for stronger data-sharing mandates and more equitable open access policies.

Causal evidence of racial and institutional biases in accessing paywalled articles and scientific data https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08299

Decreasing affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex – Scholarly Communication Analytics This blog post examines the decrease in affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex. An analysis of over 13 million articles published by major commercial publishers between 2018 and 2025 suggests that ...

There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata.

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The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025 Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…

Some excellent covers in here

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I think it would be most helpful to (1) completely revise the #peer #review system and to (2) find a way to deal with the problems that commenter @dacrotty.bsky.social mentions in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social blog post.

Guest Post — Funding Research Services: How Libraries are Exploring Cost Recovery Models - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest bloggers share results of an exploratory survey of funding research services, offering a snapshot of a library community in transition.

With downward pressure on indirect costs at research institutions, some libraries are taking a closer look at direct charging to grant budgets for specialized services.

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I love the ORCID trust marker concept. So much so that I gave a presentation for Trust over IP of @lfdecentralized.bsky.social about ways we could use it in research data spaces!
www.youtube.com/live/1bOR7aE...

New preprint on the drain that for-profit publishers place on the scientific ecosystem. We also point out that, though it's often presented as a global problem, it's actually a Global North problem: there are parts of the world with strong diamond #OA non-profit alternatives arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

Recommendations for Scholarly Publishers and Journal Editors to Mitigate Barriers to Open Access Publishing for Researchers with Weak Institutional Ties https://zenodo.org/records/17418990

Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 Our project, Linked Open Profiles, is a WordPress plugin designed to display ORCID profile data directly on websites. With ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) support, we moved the tool from a proto...

Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool!

Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...

Recommendations for Scholarly Publishers and Journal Editors to Mitigate Barriers to Open Access Publishing for Researchers with Weak Institutional Ties - TIB-Blog Rigorous, ethical, and timely research is being conducted beyond the walls of traditional universities and research institutions - and it deserves equitable opportunities for dissemination. Yet affiliation-based barriers often stand in the way. We propose a set of recommendations for academic publishers and editors to mitigate obstacles to open access publishing faced by researchers with weak institutional ties, thereby fostering a more inclusive and epistemically just scholarly communication system.

Rigorous, ethical and timely research is being conducted beyond the walls of traditional academia - it deserves equitable opportunities for dissemination. This set of recommendations aims to make scholarly communication system more inclusive and epistemically just
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Thank you for having us @drbeth.bsky.social!

A banner image for a seminar entitled "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties - epistemic injustice in academic publishing" The seminar is by Nataliia Kaliuzhna and Zeynep Aydin. In the background is a faded out image of academic library bookshelves.

Did you miss the LIS Research seminar on "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"?

If so, never fear, the recording is now out! I'd really recommend giving it a listen.

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#Library #openaccess #LISResearch #Librarian

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

How journal submission and hosting systems influence the level of open metadata in Crossref | Septentrio Conference Series In this presentation, we present the results of a large-scale analysis investigating the correlation between the level of metadata that publishers deposit with Crossref and the submission and hosting  systems that they deploy for their journals.

🚀 How do journal systems shape open metadata in Crossref? 📊 Kramer, de Jonge & Korzec analyze 150 publishers – tech vs. commercial choices? 🔍 Read more: septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SC...
🌍❄️ #Munin2025 #OpenScience #Metadata #Crossref

Advocacy Kit Skills4EOSC ‘Skills for the European Open Science commons: creating a training ecosystem for Open and FAIR science’ is funded by the European Commission Horizon Europe programme (GA 101058527)

Advocacy Kit for Open Science

And EU project (Skills4EOSC) has created an Advocacy Kit to empowers users to promote Open Science skills to policymakers and funders to help foster steady policy support.

NISO logo. NISO RP-49-202X. Open Access Business Processes (OABP), a Recommended Practice of the National Information Standards Organization. Draft for public comment.

Two weeks left! The draft Open Access Business Processes Recommended Practice is available for public comment. All in the information community are invited to review the document, view comments made by others, and provide feedback through October 17: www.niso.org/standards-co...
#OA #standards

Redefining publishing: why we're moving beyond the article - Research Information The current publishing system doesn’t reflect how science is done – or how it should be assessed, writes Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

Redefining publishing: why we’re moving beyond the article
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The current publishing system doesn’t reflect how science is done – or how it should be assessed, writes Iain Hrynaszkiewicz of @plos.org

📚New book chapter published with @intermediocl.bsky.social and C. Rovira

Factors for enhancing visibility in digital repositories: Metadata quality, interoperability standards, persistent identifiers, and SEO-GEO optimization

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This work is part of @cuvicom.bsky.social

Congratulations! Adding to my reading list.

Holly K. Andersen, Grace A. Shaw, Erica Olson & Rudy Reimer, Identifying Epistemic Injustices to Inform Epistemic Transformative Justice - PhilPapers In this chapter, we identify four specific subtypes of epistemic injustice that target Indigenous knowledge systems, practices, products, and methods of transmission. These four subtypes of epistemic ...

Preprint: specific subtypes of epistemic injustice where academic science interfaces with Indigenous knowledge in the BC area, targeted by epistemic transformative justice in 3 "the future looks better than the past" case studies. Great coauthors here
#philsci #philsky #sfu
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