Introducing the ORI Monitoring Framework: a starting point for monitoring the Dutch Open Research Information landscape (and other countries!) by @msphelps.bsky.social and @mauricev.bsky.social
communities.surf.nl/en/open-rese...
The National Library of the Netherlands will be moving to a temporary location in The Hague for five years.
After renovation, it aims to be back its original building near the main city station by 2033
www.kb.nl/nieuws/kb-na...
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TU Delft Open publishes its 150th open book
www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/libr...
URL screenshot from Sharepoint
SharePoint itself acknowledges that the crazy URLs it generates 'bypass reason'
Oldest rock art in the world discovered, c.67,800 year old stencil in Indonesia
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
University contracts with the publisher ACS (American Chemical Society) are proving tricky
The Irish consortium could reach no agreement for a read and access deal.
irel.ie/acs-readonly...
From 2018, but a good historical perspective over worries of 'the end of reading'.
Reading has always taken many forms; we also need to be attent to the ways that we are actually reading more
albright.wellesley.edu/about/blog/4...
Would also be very interested to know what agreements were made around openness of metadata
Congrats to Jisc team, though the press release is maddeningly short on details.
Does this trial mean that researchers were previously APCs and now can publish unlimited quantities of articles?
Or that closed access / Hybrid journals will flip to open when a certain threshold is reached?
Museums, unsurprisingly, defend the authenticity of the objects in their collections
But the Met in New York is using AI to imagine the great quantity of works that have been lost to time, "imagining a third thing between two known things."
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
@proton.me, a European alternative to US offerings from Google and Microsoft, has now added a spreadsheet option alongside the word processing tool
It will take time to catch up with all the functionality that the established competitors offer, but it's a solid start
proton.me/blog/sheets-...
The @barcelonadori.bsky.social Barcelona Declaration has implications for research libraries: how they harvest, manage, share metadata, and in suppliers and infrastructures they engage with.
A quick update on action from TU Delft Library
library4research.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/12/11/u...
Great snapshot of the lack of coherent thinking about Brexit from the UK's Daily Telegraph
"The underlying code and other parameters [are] freely available to scientists, and it quickly became possible for them to run the software themselves at scale."
The success of Google's AI tool is partly due to being accessible to scientists around the world.
I used to these kind of stories were outliers. But the article makes clear the systematic pressures that create this nonsense.
Science can't afford this kind of reputational damage
This is an astonishing story. Journal 'Science of the Total Environment' published *10,000 articles a year* Many were bogus.
Great summary of why our publication culture needs to be changed.
Do you think there's a way to rechannel your volunteers' interests, so they continue to be engaged? Or do you think the role of transcriber was the binding force?
With the proliferation of new AI tools, it's difficult to know how to evaluate tools for searching and reviewing scientific literature.
Do generic tools (ChatGPT etc) outperform tool specifically based on scientific content?
@aarontay.bsky.social is a very useful guide through this new jungle.
Australian and New Zealand universities in battle of the century' with publisher Elsevier
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
"The policy expects officials to first take screenshots of the text messages on their work phones, send it to their work email, download it on their work computers and then run a program that would recognize the text to store it in searchable formats"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
US immigration officials are worried about the archiving of messages that might later be incriminating for them later on.
But they still need to comply with Federal archiving laws
And they're creating weird workarounds for this
"Crucially, students will need to develop sufficient expertise to identify when AI systems produce plausible but incorrect outputs — which poses a dilemma because this requires the very skills that AI is starting to replace."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Training in academic skills will need to be fundamentally reconsidered in an era of AI."
"Data analysis and literature synthesis, might need to take a back seat so that researchers can focus on critical evaluation of AI-generated code and analyses"
The chief executive of the British Library has resigned less than a year into her job
The current strike by some staff has, I guess, a lot to with it
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
"We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers"
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
