Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org

How it started / How it's going

#pets #cats

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I know I've mentioned this before but worth another one because it's amazing: You can download tens of thousands of academic books on a staggering variety of humanities and social studies topics legally for free at the OAPEN library https://library.oapen.org/

#books

BRIE ENCOUNTER
 
the skies are gruyere since she left me
i’ve never felt so danish blue
caught between a roquefort and a hard cheese,
i stilton’t know what to do
 
don’t give edam about the future
now my babybel’s walked out the door
can’t believe i’ve double gloucester
i camembert it any more
 
i’ve ricotta get myself together
and build my life back caerphilly
cheddar tear for the final time
say goodbye to us and halloumi

So, your #OpenAccess #book has been downloaded. That's cool! But what does that number mean? Is it high or low? The answer is... complicated. Soon, my new article in Insights will discuss a possible simple answer. Watch this space... #ScholComm

People seem to like controversy, so for this week's #geoweirdness thread we thought we’d post about a very contentious geo topic we often get asked about: disputed borders.

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Hi, I joined recently & have been mostly lurking - till now! Hoping to engage more starting w/ flagging up this years Peer Review Week (9/25-29). Theme just announced - #peerreview & future of #publishing. I’m looking forward to working w/ @kawulf Jasmine Wallace & Tim Vines on a week of Scholarly Kitchen posts. Ideas welcome more info here: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/07/17/guest-post-peer-review-week-2023-to-focus-on-peer-review-and-the-future-of-publishing/

Venn diagram of date formats -
RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601 vs HTML
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

#Crossref acquires Retraction Watch data and opens it for the scientific community

👉 Agreement to combine and publicly distribute data about tens of thousands of retracted #research papers, and grow the service together

https://www.crossref.org/blog/news-crossref-and-retraction-watch/

#retractions #integrity #publishing #RetractionWatch

I keep seeing people saying they are happy to use AI text generators as sources of factual information, because they're confident that when the thing generates an inaccurate answer they'll easily spot it.

Speaking from my experience of 20+ years of professional fact-checking: the errors you can spot easily are not the ones you need to worry about.

Demain commence à Paris la troisième rencontre internationale entre la France et l'Amérique du Sud sur la #ScienceOuverte : https://so-fr-amlat2023.sciencesconf.org/

C'est en français, en espagnol et en portugais que nous échangerons autour des politiques de ScienceOuverte, des modèles économiques et des infrastructures des revues en accès ouvert, du partage des données de la recherche, de la réforme nécessaire de l'évaluation de la recherche, et de la #ScienceOuverte elle-même comme objet de recherche.

Big news: Crossref acquires Retraction Watch data and makes it open access for the scientific community
https://www.crossref.org/blog/news-crossref-and-retraction-watch/

Today’s poem is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

Every company: We proudly proclaim to be the giants of X! Our customer base is unrivaled, and our awesomeness knows no bounds.

EU: Greetings, it is I, the Digital Markets Act.

Every company: Oh, it's quite amusing, actually. We're just a humble, pint-sized operation, almost like a passion project. Certainly no need for your new regulations to trouble us.

I haven't been very active here recently, but #OAI13 finished last week and videos to rewatch each day are already available thanks to the fantastic tech team https://oai.events/oai13/oai13-videos/. An amazing resource from a superb lineup of speakers.