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Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?
U.S. Indicts Two Russians for Running the 'Z-Library' Piracy Ring. Two masterminds have been arrested in Argentina and domains seized. The site is still running in the dark web.
Preprint as a Way to Universal Open Access. In eight drawings by Dasapta Erwin Irawan.
"More than 2000 journals share price and service data through Plan S’s Journal Comparison Service." Narrator: many large legacy publishers are missing.
Open Access Monograph: "The Predator Effect: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Deceptive Academic Journals"
Analysing Elsevier Journal Metadata with a New Specialized Workbench inside ICSR Lab. #OpenData #PeerReview
"CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023." Public funding for the Open Access search engine will be cut.
eLife won’t reject papers once they are under review — what researchers think
Science Magazine reports on the stampede: "As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight. Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon."
Mastodon enables community autonomy, is a social enterprise in and of itself and shifts the site’s scaling focus from sheer number of users to quality engagement and niche communities.
COAR Announces first recommendation for supporting multilingual and non-English content in repositories
FediScience and other Mastodon communities are growing fast. This is good for #OpenScience, this is our kind of system. So worth reading is: "How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms".
Mastodon fits to our requirements for #OpenScience infrastructure. It is a communication standard, like email. So billionaires cannot buy it.
