📚 Meet Danny Kingsley, DOAB Ambassador for Australia 🇦🇺
Danny shares insights on the global open books landscape, why local expertise matters, and the growing need to support open infrastructure in scholarly communication.
🔗 Read the interview: buff.ly/zPPDTHT
#OA #OAbooks #OpenScience #DOAB
Doesn’t look crabby at all!
Ok… I feel a bit better… but also … #Adventure
Gap … YEAR… don’t post anything else… I was jealous at the wine tasting
And you kindly shared photos too… to make the rest of us realise what were were missing…
You are so selfless…
How did you cope??? 🤣
Breaking: Research Excellence Framework director to step down in April.
Former director Kim Hackett returning to oversee strategy while successor to Rebecca Fairbairn is found.
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Very sad to see Rebecca Fairbairn leaving the REF Director role. She's navigated with aplomb through some very tricky times
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This is how to convert from a for-profit Big Deal to an equitable, but professionalised, diamond OA system!
@theblochian.bsky.social and I dreamed of this scale when we launched @openlibhums.org Now, she has done it. Consortial funding, at scale.
Now over to the library community to support it.
Maths?
An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.
We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
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Agreed! 😢
Very sad to hear Dr Paul Ayris has passed away. He was a great champion of libraries and open access, hugely influential, and very supportive of us at #ebookSOS. A great loss to the library and research communities.
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Of course!!!!
Love the first Xmas film… I think you have an errant vowel at the end of the second… anyway THANKS!
I’m a sucker for a quiz… I hope it is not too tricky!
Opinion: REF after the pause: politics and a quiet retreat on culture.
Changes risk reinforcing “extreme myopia” on traditional research outputs, write Simon Hettrick, Gemma Derrick, James Baker and Ola Thomson.
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Ok ok… don’t get precious about it! 🤣
Sorry … but Gollum is quite old… 🤣
It almost was…
Ah … I feel justified…
DISCLOSURE: "Guest Post – Taxonomy of Delegation: How GAIDeT Reframes AI Transparency in Science, an Interview with Yana Suchikova" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/30/g... Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy enables researchers to disclose the use of generative AI in an honest and transparent way.
#HiddenREF here is the Slido link for today #Hiddenref2025… so if you are online and want to ask a question… pop over to sli.do
#HiddenREF some of the issues…
Day 2 of the #HiddenREF festival is starting here in Birmingham and online via zoom. Follow the #HiddenREF here or on LinkedIn
REF at a crossroads: revamp or get rid?
Pause intensifies debate on whether exercise is QR’s essential defence or outdated policy’s “monster”.
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Excellent address by the Uni of Liverpool's Natalie Wallis at #HiddenREF festival (@hiddenref.bsky.social). Report to follow.
In the meantime, here's something Wallis wrote for @resprofnews.bsky.social recently on non-traditional research outputs:
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After the intro from @jwbaker.bsky.social @hiddenref.bsky.social #HiddenREF we have Liverpool DOTs with Natalie Wallis… and so DOTs that is Diverse Output Types… so another name for Non Traditional Outputs… Liverpool have a team to support and promote their development!
