Selecting a journal: a minefield without due diligence

#QUTLibrary blogpost by Sandra Fry, Scholarly Communications Librarian (acting).

https://blogs.qut.edu.au/library/2023/06/05/selecting-a-journal-a-minefield-without-due-diligence/

#ScholarlyCommunications #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholarlyImpact

If you're not doing this, you're doing #scholarlycommunications wrong https://currentpub.com/2023/06/01/springsteen-reads-a-fans-research-paper-during-a-concert-in-edinburgh/

"Online Education as a Discipline" (2021) was the culmination of 25 years, and has been read by 7,000+ teachers and researchers worldwide at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353073973 (15 recommendations) and https://doi.org/10.20935/AL434

Educators and scholars in all fields should find the article informative. It has been cited mostly in reference to Emergency Remote Teaching, but it goes beyond that issue to the role of academics in society, and the case of #India. It defines terms including online education, and starts by explaining the difference between a field and a discipline.

🦣 group to follow and participate in: @OnlineEducation
@edutooters @academicchatter
#OnlineLearning #OnlineTeaching #DistanceEducation #OnlineEducation #BlendedLearning #Education #HigherEducation #AcademicMastodon #ScholarlyCommunications #Japan

Library Publishing Job Alert! Join the California Digital Library's eScholarship team as a Publications Manager, supporting #openaccess publishing across the University of California system https://cdlib.org/about/job-opportunities/ #scholarlycommunications #scholcomm #libjobs #publishingjobs

I'm looking again at the list of 55 journals de-listed by Web of Science this month for quality reasons. Among them, as others have noted, is the #MDPI flagship mega-journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), as well as an astonishing 19 #Hindawi journals.

The list, via #RetractionWatch, noting which titles were de-listed due to editorial quality: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AiUI0qf4SqXzn8OXy6HZtma3Z8sLgJIBtgAcv6D5mK0/edit?usp=sharing

Related post: https://retractionwatch.com/2023/03/21/nearly-20-hindawi-journals-delisted-from-leading-index-amid-concerns-of-papermill-activity/

#ScholarlyCommunications #WebOfScience #WOS

An awesome part-time role is currently being advertised with Open Access Australasia! Check it out:

Senior Project Officer, Open Access Australasia
Kensington, NSW (hybrid flexible options)
Part time (21 hours per week)
12 months fixed term
Salary: HEW 7 (AU$100,331 - AU$108,588 + 17% superannuation) (pro-rata)

https://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/ci/en/job/515187/senior-project-officer-open-access-australasia

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunications #FediHired #FediJobs #GetFediHired #OpenAccessAustralasia

A worthwhile read on animal ethics and journal publishing:

Janine McCarthy, "When journals don’t meet their ethical guidelines, will anyone hold them accountable?" (#RetractionWatch 17/3/2023).

McCarthy highlights the notorious #MDPI journal Nutrients, which she argues "has a particularly bad record of accepting studies with egregious violations of ethical norms when it comes to experiments on animals."

https://retractionwatch.com/2023/03/17/when-journals-dont-meet-their-ethical-guidelines-will-anyone-hold-them-accountable/

#ScholarlyCommunications #AnimalEthics

A worthwhile read on #AnimalEthics and journal publishing, highlighting the troubling case of the notorious #MDPI journal Nutrients:

Janine McCarthy, "When journals don’t meet their ethical guidelines, will anyone hold them accountable?" (#RetractionWatch 17/3/2023).

https://retractionwatch.com/2023/03/17/when-journals-dont-meet-their-ethical-guidelines-will-anyone-hold-them-accountable/

McCarthy argues that Nutrients "has a particularly bad record of accepting studies with egregious violations of ethical norms when it comes to experiments on animals."

#ScholarlyCommunications

Great piece to help researchers understand #ResearchCommunications & the specialists who can help them.

Bigger than the sum of its parts – Finding a focal point for engaging university communication teams by @Andy_Tattersall

https://bit.ly/3yKUU1t

#ScholarlyCommunications
#ScholarlyImpact #ResearchImpact #ResearchSupport

This is an excellent post on the problems with "good" journals:

Moin Syed, PNAS is Not a Good Journal (and Other Hard Truths about Journal Prestige), 10 March 2023
https://getsyeducated.substack.com/p/pnas-is-not-a-good-journal

It also has one of the best conflict-of-interest statements I've seen: "I made a bet ($5.00) with Ira Hyman in 2019 that the journal impact factor would no longer be used within five years, and thus I have financial motivation to write negatively about impact factors."

#ScholarlyCommunications #JIF #PNAS

Every aspect of this research cycle is radically different across disciplines so at the Researcher to Reader Conference like all #ScholarlyCommunications I stress the critical impt of the humanities for humanity. The big volume and big $$ are in stem esp biomed but we must weigh social value too. #R2RConf

Okay, cool. So researchers publishing in Advances in Therapy - a #SpringerNature "rapid publication journal" - not only face an #APC (Article Processing Charge) of €3,390 / AU$5,257 if they want to publish #OpenAccess, but also a mandatory "Rapid Service Fee" of €6,250 / AU$9,693. Awesome. 🤯 💀

https://www.springer.com/journal/12325/

#ScholarlyCommunications

Fancy sharing your perspective :flan_aww: or latest findings 🔬 on the local flavours of the trends and tensions in #ScholarlyCommunications #OpenScience #OpenData with likeminded folks this April?
📣 #CallForProposals for lightning talks @force11
Check all details at https://force11.org/post/force2023-call-for-proposals/

My University of Melbourne library blog post on our 2023 #OpenAccess publishing agreements is now live. It aims to not just highlight our new and continuing agreements, most of which are #ReadAndPublish agreements negotiated by #CAUL, but to contextualise these alongside other pathways to open access, including open access journals (many of which don't charge APCs), Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and our institutional repository.

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/researcher-library/2023/01/16/2023-open-access-publishing-agreements/

#UniMelb #ScholarlyCommunications

My University of Melbourne library blog post on our 2023 #OpenAccess publishing agreements is now live. It aims to not just highlight our new and continuing agreements, most of which are #ReadAndPublish agreements negotiated by #CAUL, but to contextualise these alongside other pathways to open access, including open access journals (many of which don't charge APCs), Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and our institutional repository.

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/researcher-library/2023/01/16/2023-open-access-publishing-agreements/

#UniMelb #ScholarlyCommunications

"Online Education as a Discipline" (2021) was the culmination of 25 years, and has been read by nearly 7,000 teachers and researchers worldwide at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353073973 and https://www.academia.edu/45386298
At ResearchGate there have been 15 recommendations, and they found a citation to the article in a new book by the British Council, Language Teaching Experiences during Covid-19, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367077519
Educators and scholars in all fields should find the article informative. It has been cited mostly in reference to Emergency Remote Teaching during the pandemic, but it actually goes way beyond that issue to the role of academics in society, providing many definitions.

🦣 group for you: @OnlineEducation

#OnlineLearning #OnlineTeaching #DistanceEducation #OnlineEducation #BlendedLearning #OpenAccess #Education #HigherEducation #AcademicMastodon #ScholarlyCommunications #Japan #India #LanguageTeaching #EmergencyRemoteTeaching

Can't find a research question for my LISM MA thesis. Too many interests, too few things I feel capable of handling/researching. Any suggestions for questions of interest? Ideally related to #ScholarlyCommunications, #InformationLiteracy or #RDM in the #SocialSciences

#Curation can be enjoyable, backing up publications in #research #repositories. Although I haven't ever paid, somehow followers have soared over 700 on https://wilmina.academia.edu/SteveMcCarty
"Online Education as a Discipline" has over 6,000 views at
https://www.academia.edu/45386298 and 15 recommendations somehow at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353073973
This short paper explains what a discipline is, then goes deeply into international and interdisciplinary issues of online education as an academic discipline.

How about joining the 🦣 group @OnlineEducation (like you follow someone, then you receive or share posts with that address)?

#OnlineLearning #OnlineTeaching #DistanceEducation #OnlineEducation #BlendedLearning #podcasting #EducationalTechnology #EdTech #openedtech #OpenEducation #OpenAccess #OER #Education #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicToots #ScholarlyCommunications

@edutooter @academicchatter
@mbrownz @AlejandraPickett @JoseMarichal

More slides from the presentation "Bilingualism for the Individual, Family, and Society" https://www.academia.edu/71334694/Bilingualism_for_the_Individual_Family_and_Society

The 🦣 group @Bilingualism is growing. You join it like you follow someone, then you receive or share posts with that address. The chirp.social groups are nicely designed, so I have also set up one for Online Education. You can scroll through all the posts to the Bilingualism 🦣 group at https://chirp.social/@Bilingualism/shared

#Bilingualism #Bilingual #multilingualism #multiculturalism #LanguageEducation #LanguageTeaching #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicToots #ScholarlyCommunications @jalt
@linguistics

The dance of the naked emperors: a followup to "The rise and fall of peer review”

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-dance-of-the-naked-emperors

#ScholarlyCommunications #PeerReview