The @UKSGofficial annual conference attracts delegates from across the 🌐𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆.

📰Read the personal account of #𝘜𝘒𝘚𝘎2023 by @gemcq , available #𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 in 𝗲𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀👇🏼👇🏼

🔗https://uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-543/gordon-mcqueens-personal-account-uksg-2023-inspired-mary-catherine #OpenResearch #ScholarlyComm #Plan_S

@ResearchWhisperer @lizziegadd @DrBeth This was during Lizzie's breakout session, "What role should journal publications play in research evaluation?". See https://www.uksg.org/event/conference23, Programme, Group A.

This was largely an audience of librarians and publishers. "Excellence" has been critiqued as a concept, e.g., see https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms2016105, and "critical", "forward thinking", and "creative" did feature high on the list. #UKSG2023 #ResearchAssessment

Thanks @UKSGofficial for a thought provoking #uksg2023 great talks & hopefully even more conversations , thanks to everyone’s hard work (sun shine was a nice bonus too)

The #UKSG2023 Cybersecurity 101 panel is very leery of using open source software in university library systems - they say it's too vulnerable. #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #FOSS #Libraries #LibraryMastodon

"I'm here to scare you."

David Robertson accounts how a speaker at a conference in Malaysia had his laptop compromised. Hackers gained high-level access to a Scottish university's systems and nearly managed to inject ransomware before the computing department pulled the plug.

Check haveibeenpwned.com, use good passwords, and be wary of unknown emails and links.

#Cybersecurity #UKSG2023

Even if you don't like subscription publishers, don't "turn your brain off" when it comes to #phishing and platforms like Sci-Hub, argues university librarian Rick Anderson.
#UKSG2023 #OpenAccess #Cybersecurity

Why should libraries discuss #cybersecurity? Because of large-scale attacks on the higher education sector, says @SusieWinter10.

@Looptopper says licences require restricting access and compromised authentication exposes user info, email accounts, and internal systems. #UKSG2023

@UKSGofficial

Comment from the audience: library data capture is one example of the "platformisation" of research. Non-disclosure agreements in contracts and a lack of power mean the discussion will need legal advice and involve sector bodies, not just a few libraries.

#UKSG2023

Is there a prize for the best #UKSG2023 slides, @UKSGofficial?

Caroline Ball ("mouthy and concerned") and Anthony Sinnott discuss the use of library data and call for a cross-sector audit.

Publishers, aka data brokers, harvest library users' analytics data, but libraries rarely collect or use data on their own e-resources - and often don't know how to - and they don't know what vendors are collecting and what they use it for.

#DataScience #DataEthics #Bibliometrics #LibraryScience #Libraries

An issue for tools that flag retracted articles in, for example, citation management software, is that databases see very different numbers of retractions. CrossRef sees ~11,000, Retraction Watch ~35,000. This motivates @NISOInfo's working group.

#UKSG2023 #Retractions #PublicationEthics #CrossRef

The focus of the @NISOInfo retractions group:

- Focuses on metadata transfer and display

- Rationale and justification for retractions, EoCs, and removals are out of scope

- Considers both articles that are the VOR, as well as other scholarly outputs

- Guidance on implementation and operationalization

#UKSG2023 #Retractions #PublicationEthics

The @NISOInfo retractions group, CREC, (Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/crec) builds on work done by Jodi Schneider et al.:
Schneider, J., et al. Res Integr Peer Rev 7, 6 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-022-00125-x

#Retractions #UKSG2023

How do the COPE and NISO retraction guidelines interact?

COPE looks at the decision on whether to retract; NISO looks at what to do once an article is retracted, so the rest of the scholarly ecosystem becomes aware - @tac_NISO

#UKSG2023 #Retractions #NISO

Reducing the risk of propagating retracted research. Rachael Lammey of CrossRef and Todd Carpenter of NISO look at retractions in light of recent bulk retractions due to paper mills and #PeerReview manipulation. Retractions matter due to the central role of trust in #ScholComm.

#UKSG2023 #Retractions #PublicationEthics

Robert Kiley, cOAlition S, reiterates that from the end of 2024 its members will no longer provide financial support for either transformative agreements or hybrid journals
#fullyopenaccesspublishers #UKSG2023
#cOAlitionS #planS

"Nobody can really be expected to read a pile of papers".

Robert Kiley ponders what may replace IF and journal reputation in #ResearchAssessment. Can transparent #PeerReview help by making that appraisal visible?

#UKSG2023 #PlanS

Roheena Anand of @PLOS asks Anna Vernon of Jisc whether we might see APCs replaced by various charges for different publishing services. Anna doesn't see this happening. #UKSG2023 #OpenAccess

Plan S #UKSG2023 session is so popular that we latecomers have overflowed into another room.

Robert Kiley reflects on 5 years of the plan. Big move to #OpenAccess, but APCs are often seen as incompatible with equity, hybrid OA's time is soon up as a transitional model, & diamond OA is now being promoted.

Authors still need to retain rights, and research assessment needs to further evolve to avoid IF reliance. Preprints have boomed and new journal-independent #PeerReview is being explored.

Four years of ROR:
@ResearchOrgs.

@amandafrench says ROR is a research persistent identifier (PID), like DOI and ORCID.

ROR gives cleaner info on orgs, easy to exchange, e.g., records multiple names and acronyms for the same place.

Has a public API and governance, community curation.

#UKSG2023 #PIDs

Problems and solutions for inclusiveness in digital publishing and education - Laura Pacey of McGraw Hill.

- Diversify resources (less US- and Euro-centric)
- Use interactive assessment
- Build community networks
- Revise language guidelines

#UKSG2023 #DEI #DiversityEquityInclusion #DiversityAndInclusion