Planning on doing a bit of a push on getting more ORCIDs in our CRIS system over the summer.

Have any of y'all had any successful initiatives? I'd love to hear about them!

#ORCID #ScholarlyComms #Libraries #LibrarianLife

#DOAJ in numbers!

We index 19367 #journals from 132 countries, covering 80 languages. 13158 don't charge APCs. 12592 don't charge any fees at all. 10784 journals allow authors #rightsretention

https://doaj.org/search/journals

We index 8,899,457 pieces of article metadata.

https://doaj.org/search/articles

#OpenAccess #scholcomm #scholarlycomms #AcademicChatter

Save the date! On the 15th June, we're hosting the first of three events to mark our 20th anniversary🥳
Our first event will explore the theme 'Open'💬

More info about the event coming soon...🔍

https://doaj.org/at-20/

#DOAJat20 #openaccess #scholarlycomms #DOAJ #AcademicChatter #scholcomms #libraries #librarians

Another weekend, another request to review a mss for a biomedical journal. "Please send us names of other referees if you are not able or qualified to review this submission." #history #scholarlycomms #peerreview

Thought-provoking reflections for #histodons from Serge Horbach, @tonyRH and Ludo Waltman, on forms of #peerreview (double-anonymous or not, open reports or not, etc).

They suggest that #humanities preferences for double-anon may be slowing down our adoption of newer #scholarlycomms models (e.g. pre-printing, publish-review-curate). And that double-anon doesn't really solve implict bias problems but just hides them.

I think those two points need untangling... [more]

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/18/sunlight-not-shadows-double-anonymised-peer-review-is-not-the-answer-to-status-bias/

I'll be talking about our book on the history of Royal Society publishing (particularly the bits about learned society publishing!), 'in conversation' with Sam Burrell on 30 November.

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A change of pace for #SocietyStreet2022!

We ♥️ @aileenfyfe
's work exploring the history of society publishing (& its funding) so we are closing 2022 chatting about her new book.

Weds 30th Nov 11 am EST / 4pm BST

Join us & sign up: http://societystreet.org/events

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#scholarlycomms #scicomm #hstm

Interesting thoughts from Andy Tattersall #LSEImpactBlog on how #Mastodon might work better for individual #academics than for institutions.

My impression so far is that I see academic community- building here, but can't work out where the wider policy, #scholarlycomms, #scicomm, #openscience folks are. (I know some are here, but far fewer, as far as I've been able to find)
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/10/academics-can-easily-leave-twitters-town-square-but-it-will-be-much-harder-for-their-institutions/

Good evening :fediverse: ! In tonight's edition of #ConnectionList (thx @mattcen for the tip around CamelCaps for screenreaders, you're an awesome #a11y) #connection #introduction, I'd like you to meet:

@jarich is amazing - they are a #programmer #dev and one of the most resilient people I know. Always kinds, gentle and thoughtful 🇦🇺

@mabyes is into #geosciences and #ML for #hydrology. They (not assuming pronouns) are new to #Mastodon, say hello! 👋

@ko is an import from 🇸🇪 - and I suspect they (don't want to assume pronouns) like #fika as much as @forslund :-) KO is into #bikes #boats #photography and #music 👋

@alisoncroggon is a #poet #novelist #critic and #writer 🇺🇸

@onsman is also a #writer, a #technical writer who works in the #web #webdev and #digital #a11y space 🇦🇺

Dr @shanebattye is a specialist #pathologist based in #Naarm #Melbourne who likes #lego, #roblox and #history 🇦🇺

@raena is incredible - she's a #drupalista and a #knitter and I once went on a #yarn crawl with her in Melbs and it was heaps fun! 🧶

@JubalBarca is a #historian and #digitalhumanities Scholar, doing a #Phd on medieval Georgian #prosopography. I had to look up what that is - it's the study of individuals in a particular context. Thanks for enlightening me!

@missemilielib is an #academic #librarian at Swinburne, and they (not assuming pronouns) manage the Swinburne #research bank. Into #openaccess #scholarlycomms #GLAM #ausglam

That's all for now - share your own #ConnectionList ❤️

Am thinking about how my historical data on journal turnaround times compares to that discussed by Christos Petrou for 2011–2020 on #ScholarlyKitchen.

He says:
2019/20 - average turnaround time (all disciplines) 163 days

2011/12 (all disciplines), 199 days

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/08/guest-post-publishing-fast-and-slow-a-review-of-publishing-speed-in-the-last-decade/

My data from #RoyalSociety (science only):

2009 - about 70 days
2002 - about 280 days
1960 - anything between 210-315 days...

https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicaltransactions/time-taken-to-publish/

#publishing #journals #scholarlycomms

Nice reflections by @peterwebster on scholarly communication in the fediverse “The reactions of the last few years – against commercial publishing, against commercial sharing services such as academia.edu, and now against Twitter – are all in part borne of an objection to commercial capture and exploitation of the activity of scholarly communication.” https://websterresearchconsulting.com/2022/11/08/first-thoughts-on-the-fediverse/ #scholarlycomms