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Mikael Laakso

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Associate Professor in Information Studies @ Tampere University, Finland. Conducting research, teaching, and supervision on scholarly communication, open science, and meta-research.

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University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.

💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated

✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social

#AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky

05.02.2026 11:10 👍 11 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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Tervetuloa Tiedon valoa -tapahtumaan 23.–24.1. – pääpuhujana kulttuuri-ikoni Seela Sella | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö Tiedon valoa -tapahtuma järjestetään tänä vuonna ensimmäistä kertaa keskustakampuksen Päätalossa, ja samalla tapahtuma laajenee kaksipäiväiseksi. Tapahtumaan on vapaa pääsy, ja ohjelmaa on kaikille...

Tampereen yliopiston Tiedon valoa -tapahtuma on 23.-24.1. keskustakampuksen Päätalossa. Tapahtuma on laajennettu kaksipäiväiseksi ja siihen on vapaa pääsy. Ohjelmaa on kaikille tieteestä, tutkimuksesta ja kulttuurista kiinnostuneille! www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...

20.01.2026 06:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Today I have to honor to act as opponent the doctoral disstertation of Michele Gibney at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. If you want to follow the action there is an open Zoom-link here, with a start in 5 minutes: lnu.se/en/meet-linn.... Link to dissertation: doi.org/10.15626/LUD...

09.01.2026 13:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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University journals in the global academic publishing landscape: Mapping over 19,000 diverse titles based on Ulrichsweb data - Scientometrics Universities have been an instrumental part of the scholarly publishing landscape dating back several centuries, but comprehensive mapping of the presence of universities' involvement in publishing of...

A comprehensive investigation of university published journals, - mapping and profiling journals globally (including data from Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and #DOAJ)
New article from Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

08.01.2026 08:13 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Thank you for sharing the paper! In relation to the immense collective footprint of university journals we know relatively little about them, so more research is needed so that they could best be understood, acknowledged, and supported.

08.01.2026 06:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"From mess to method: A case study about designing a workshop on research data discovery", doi.org/10.7557/11.8.... Read about how a network of library research support staff in Denmark are helping researchers learn how to search for published #researchdata.
#FAIR #datadiscovery #retrieval

17.11.2025 21:44 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Science Denial Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Science Denial

My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can!

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

17.11.2025 14:09 👍 43 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 2
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Three global experts discuss ‘Practical Open Access for Everyone’ Oct. 23 online | Penn State University Penn State University Libraries will host three of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of open access during a public online panel discussion, “We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyon...

Reminder about next week's online panel.

www.psu.edu/news/univers...

13.10.2025 15:46 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

So glad to see this out! This was a big undertaking and I'm very happy with the end result. Thanks in particular to @judithfathallah.bsky.social for the work on this

13.10.2025 14:53 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

And I can be the first to admit that the "reasonings" for open access can and should still be improved. More research should be consulted systematically, and the codes are not fully discretionary (i.e. there is conceptual overlap). But that is best left for a systematic review and dedicated study

10.10.2025 18:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In three months and some change the full peer-reviewed paper based on this preprint is now out in Journal of Documentation doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... 🎉. Results and analysis did not change in the revision process but the theoretical framing and interpretation is strengthened based on reviewer feedback.

10.10.2025 17:46 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - 17 months Postdoc for international ANR project M/F

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...
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

18.08.2025 09:19 👍 8 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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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.

16.07.2025 03:13 👍 563 🔁 225 💬 22 📌 21
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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....

15.07.2025 10:57 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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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 👇

09.07.2025 14:39 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

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:
unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...

09.07.2025 07:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

📢 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

02.07.2025 08:30 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

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.

30.06.2025 10:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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/...

30.06.2025 06:58 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

Hosting a #DiamondOA event?
Share it on the #EDCHForum!

It’s easy:
🗨️ Create a topic
➕ Click “Create event”
🔗 Add details (Zoom, registration, etc.)
It appears in the shared calendar!

Stay connected 👉 buff.ly/twPYd9q

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicEvents

24.06.2025 08:02 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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

23.06.2025 13:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

huggingface.co/datasets/ins...

16.06.2025 09:22 👍 36 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

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.

13.06.2025 10:28 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

11.06.2025 17:43 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
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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

13.06.2025 06:51 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 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...

12.06.2025 05:40 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

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!

12.06.2025 05:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 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...

12.06.2025 05:40 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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.

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

10.06.2025 09:35 👍 60 🔁 56 💬 2 📌 3
Blue background. Sustainability Toolsuite in a yellow text box. Multicoloured European Diamond Capacity Hub logo in the top right hand corner. White and yellow DIAMAS logo in bottom left hand corner. Collaboration in Diamond Open Access publishing in a yellow text box with a shadow behind it and a black and yellow loudspeaker.

Blue background. Sustainability Toolsuite in a yellow text box. Multicoloured European Diamond Capacity Hub logo in the top right hand corner. White and yellow DIAMAS logo in bottom left hand corner. Collaboration in Diamond Open Access publishing in a yellow text box with a shadow behind it and a black and yellow loudspeaker.

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

zenodo.org/records/1509...

03.06.2025 12:51 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0