Dr Danny Kingsley (she/her)
@dannykay68
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Researcher & professional in scholarly communication - open research & reproducibility. Board Member @force11rescomm @dannykay68.bsky.social
Brisbane, Australia
Joined May 2012
One more week to share your experience of using the #oabookstoolkit - the deadline has been extended until 8 March! #oabooks
Thanks to everyone who's responded to the #oabookstoolkit survey so far! The deadline has been extended until Friday 8 March and we'd welcome more responses from our users. It'll take only 5 minutes to complete: https://t.co/ZJsVeg5R2Y
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We are excited to announce a new partnership with @Thoth_metadata! Read the announcement written in collaboration with Toby Steiner (@cmplxtv_studies), Product Manager, to find out more: https://t.co/1d5c6ZCKdU
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WORKING AS IT SHOULD: this is what is fantastic about Creative Commons - adapt and improve.
FINALLY managed to get the diagrams done. Check it out: https://t.co/3meeQfdOkX
#OpenAccess As always any librarians want the CSV file I'm happy to share just DM/Email me! Credit to @dannykay68 for her first diagram - I just needed the colours and style to match for our site.
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A blog piece on our paper about #citationdiversity and #openaccessworks is available at LSE impact blog!
đź’ĄNew: Open access works - 420 million citations show OA outputs are cited by more researchers from more places @CK_Karl_Huang, @CameronNeylon, @LucyMontgomery_ #OpenAccess #ScholComm
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TAKEOVER: "What’s worse is that the publisher packaged the book with access to the online homework system" This is yet another way publishers are muscling into the higher ed environment - providing teaching content. Who needs lecturers any more?
Student calls for Biden administration to make automatic textbook billing "opt-in" by default. "If these programs offer real savings, we will rush to opt in — and if they don’t, we won’t and shouldn’t have to." https://t.co/7KrxtJG3Qo
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SOMEWHAT SIMPLISTIC: Time Magazine "13 ways the world got better in 2023" https://t.co/CBNUCjXr7W includes "More scientific studies were free for anyone to access". But mechanism is R&P deals, further cementing control over the publishing landscape into a few commercial hands.
time.com
The past year was no joyride. But here are some ways things actually improved across the globe.
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REPORT: Research Culture Initiatives in the UK report, published 18 Jan https://t.co/gcgJ8qLQ84 Comprehensive overview - most initiatives are focused on higher education, they are often not well assessed, mostly targeted at ECRs, often UK focused. Lots of other findings...
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Wonderful opportunity to join us @FlindersLib in this full time, continuing leadership role ! #libraryjobs #academiclibraries
https://t.co/d37WxY8tzS
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Later this year our 2023 Stakeholder Report will be published. In the meantime, check out the latest spotlight on our website for some of last year's highlights #OAbooks
https://t.co/sAaLUp4twu
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SIDESTEPPING? I have some invite codes available. Let me know if you are interested.
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SIGN UP: Open Letter: We reject the absurd QS/THE World University Rankings
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BIG DECISION: https://t.co/bdISf01nKk "Elsevier’s Scopus database has paused indexing content from Sustainability, an MDPI journal, while it reevaluates whether to include the title, Retraction Watch has learned. Other MDPI titles were reevaluated in 2023..."
retractionwatch.com
Elsevier’s Scopus database has paused indexing content from Sustainability, an MDPI journal, while it reevaluates whether to include the title, Retraction Watch has learned. Please see an update o…
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JOB: (UK) Open Book Futures Library Relationship Manager, Lancaster University
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk
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ADDITION to the open infrastructure ecosystem
researchprofessionalnews.com
Open-source ranking will be published alongside one using proprietary data
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Milestone: 2023 is the first year with more than 10,000 research paper retractions -- smashing previous records. More than 8,000 of these came from Hindawi (mostly from 'special issues'). Total retractions now >50,000. My analysis for @Nature 🧵 https://t.co/o26V1bQovQ
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Thank you to our wonderful community of publishers, funders, libraries, and readers. 2023 has been a year to remember and we look forward to 2024! Read more: https://t.co/sEVtR0iaFD
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Thank you to our wonderful community of publishers, funders, libraries, and readers. 2023 has been a year to remember and we look forward to 2024! Read more: https://t.co/BX9RFzfd9B
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GREAT NEWS: The Analysis and Policy Observatory (APO) has found a new home
blog.apo.org.au
After 21 years at Swinburne University of Technology, APO will be joining the Susan McKinnon Foundation to continue it’s vital work in making policy and research accessible and useable, and s…
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Check out some of the excellent work being done by the @OAPENbooks team to make discoverability and access of #OpenAccess books easier
lab.operas-eu.org
Authors: Ronald SnijderReviewers: Françoise Gouzi, Sy Holsinger As you may know, the OAPEN Foundation manages two platforms to distribute open access books and chapters: the OAPEN Library and the D…
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