#ScolComm

LSE Impact Blog

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social

3 months ago

Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?

👀ICYMI: "the British Library’s woes are a microcosm of a wider crisis across the UK’s knowledge sector"

#ScolComm #Libraries #KnowledgeWork @simonxix.com

Alice Fleerackers (she/her)

@fleerackers.bsky.social

5 months ago

Study sheds light on journalists’ knowledge of predatory journals - The Journalist's Resource In-depth interviews with health and science journalists reveal that most believed predatory journals are a problem for their peers, or a problem in theory, but not a problem they would ever fall for t...

Curious about our new study on journalists and predatory publishing, but don't want to read a 15 page academic paper?

@journoresource.bsky.social just wrote a great little summary and what the findings mean for #scolcomm, #openscience & journalism

journalistsresource.org/home/study-s...

Copim

@copim.bsky.social

10 months ago

And then join Toby & Hannah @thoth-metadata.bsky.social and Vincent (punctum books) to hear about 'Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Landscape'

⏰ 2:15-2:45PM

#LPF25 #ScolComm #Metadata #OA #OpenAccess #Monographs

Alice Fleerackers (she/her)

@fleerackers.bsky.social

11 months ago

Interesting. But is shifting academic reward systems away from citation metrics to "AI-driven analytics" as metrics of #openscience the answer?

More and different metrics is not the answer to our obsession with metrics. Even (& maybe especially) when those metrics are controlled by AI.

#scolcomm