Hüseyin Murat Yücel
@hmyucel.bsky.social
Kütüphaneci - Librarian / ÜNAK Üniversite ve Araştırma Kütüphanecileri Derneği - University and Research Librarians' Association Ankara / Türkiye
📣Hosting platform DergiPark, home to 2500+ journals, has been integrated with DOAJ 💠Journals that are listed on DOAJ can now export their content with a simple click of a button #indexing #visability #TRDizin #DergiPark #ULAKBİM #AcademicPublishing 💠Details: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/annou...
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Resurrection of the betrayal: Diamond Open Access assuming a commercial model | UCT Libraries https://lib.uct.ac.za/articles/2025-12-02-resurrection-betrayal-diamond-oa-assuming-commercial-model
Resurrection of the betrayal: Diamond Open Access assuming a commercial model
In April 2022, there were assertions made in College and Research Libraries News about the betrayal of Africa by the openness movement.
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Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....
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Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s #OpenAccess landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges #DiamondOA blog.doaj.org/2025/09/29/a...
Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...
Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen
In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...
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💥 New: How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control ✍️ Aikerim Bektemirova #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #ScholComm
How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control - Impact of Social Sciences
Do bibliometric performance metrics, which underpin global higher education policies, also provide a means for authoritarian states to coerce academics?
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10th IFLA Green Library Award 2025 Results Announced! (via @ifla.org) www.ifla.org/news/10th-if... #libraries #greenlibraries @nowatnpl.bsky.social
Meta veri, "İçeriğinizin tüketileceği, kullanılacağı, satılacağı ve diğer sistemlere ekleneceği farklı yolları düşünmeye başlarsanız, meta veriler hakkında düşünmeniz yeterlidir."
Scholastica@scholasticahq.bsky.social · last yr.Metadata is defined as "data about data" — but what does that actually mean? And how can publishers visualize it? This Fri, we're flashing back to an insightful interview w/ Jabin White, Dir of Data Ingest @oclc.org back when he was VP of Content Management @jstor.bsky.social: buff.ly/LFKGPB4
Guest Post — Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/23/g...
Guest Post - Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals - The Scholarly Kitchen
In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.
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We showed that non-English papers receive citations largely from the same language, indicating that conservaiton evidence rarely crosses #languagebarriers. Having an English abstract = more English citations. 2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations! doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Kelsey Hannah@kelsey-hannah.bsky.social · last yr.Excited to share our new study on how language barriers affect conservation science. We found that non-English research especially in Hungarian, Polish, Korean & Russian is undercited in English, despite local impact. Read the full paper: lnkd.in/gj7UDewC
Now up on the Verso Blog: an excellent essay analyzing the political conditions on university campuses and the strategic avenues available to students (and faculty) committed to the struggle for a free Palestine
Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · last yr.A year ago, the Columbia Palestine encampment sparked a movement that spread across the globe. As the Trump admin wages a fresh war against students, Francesco Anselmetti argues that campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Linked data for metadata operations: An RLP Product Insights session summary, by Annette Dortmund @callmeannet.bsky.social / Hanging Together- @oclc.org hangingtogether.org/linked-data-...
Linked data for metadata operations: An RLP Product Insights session summary - Hanging Together
They main goal for linked data should be to improve metadata operations. In this recent OCLC RLP Products Insights session, metadata experts met with OCLC product management to explore challenges, opt...
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Catching up with @9thprime.bsky.social’s fabulous summary of the STM annual trends info graphic. So appreciate this narrative explanation of this very dense image, packed full of insights and inspiration! (Also, can we just fast forward to 2029 please?!) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/03/n...
New STM 2029 Trends Report Provides a Bridge to the Future - The Scholarly Kitchen
Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community
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This is a crazy impressive but long piece on Ai impact on academic search and discovery urfistinfo.hypotheses.org/4645 by i think librarians in France (1) i was kinda planning to do a long overview like this but this makes it kinda pointless ha.
#WorkInProgress : IA générative et outils de recherche de littérature académique
La recherche d’informations et la revue de littérature académique n’échappent pas à la récente vague d’intelligence artificielle générative, promesse d’assistance et de productivité. Durant les deux a...
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Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.
"Today, Monday 31st March 2025, is therefore a timely moment to be launching the Open Journals Collective (OJC) – an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals offered by corporate academic publishers." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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"To promote sustainable transportation, the library has established bicycle parking areas and conducts awareness campaigns on eco-friendly mobility." #EngagedLibraries www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/turk...
Turkish library gains global recognition for sustainability efforts
Burdur Provincial Public Library in Türkiye's southern Anatolian city of Burdur has been named one of the world's top seven libraries in the...
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Aligning E-Book Offerings with Library Needs: A Call for Dialogue and Respect https://icolc.net/statements/aligning-e-book-offerings-library-needs-call-dialogue-and-respect
Aligning E-Book Offerings with Library Needs: A Call for Dialogue and Respect | ICOLC Website
The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) acknowledges the complex business decisions e-book vendors face in today’s evolving market. However, as customers, we firmly believe that these decisions must align with the core values and mission of libraries and library consortia. As representatives of approximately 200 library consortia worldwide, ICOLC is committed to advocating partnerships that prioritize the needs of libraries and their communities.
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"The trouble with subscription models for purchasers is that they work fine until suddenly they don’t." Good fr Isaac Wink abt how research libraries trying to preserve the scholarly record aren't the same as my Spotify access--and that 🤨Clarivate move. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/05/g...
Guest Post – The Future Is Not Perpetual (But it could be yours for just several thousand dollars per year...) - The Scholarly Kitchen
Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a "subscription-based access strategy," meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.
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"The number of open repositories continues to grow, yet there are no systematic plans to include visible warnings to alert readers when accessing a retracted or corrected publication." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Open repositories cannot ignore retractions and corrections - Impact of Social Sciences
Repositories for academic papers often do not reflect retractions and corrections to published papers, can this be resolved?
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💥New: As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks? 🧑💻Kevin O'Donovan (@lselibrary.bsky.social) #AcademicSky #ScholComm #Libraries
As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks?
Proquest recently announced that it will be changing its business model to move away from print textbooks and monographs, solely to ebooks via a subscription-based model similar to a “Big Deal”. Ke…
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New study finds large print books boost student literacy development and social-emotional health 📚 librarytechnology.org/pr/31008
New study finds large print books boost student literacy development and social-emotional health
Press Release: New study finds large print books boost student literacy development and social-emotional health. n an era when students and teachers alike spend hours a day reading on screens, large ...
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Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem https://upstream.force11.org/criteria-for-bibliographic-databases/
Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem
Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databases that support and do not hinder innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.
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Good illustration of many of the current problems with publishing: more work pushed onto academic editors, fewer editors handling papers, copyediting undertaken by AI., etc etc. It's all about processing papers as quickly and with as little paid human input as possible.
Mark Grabowski@markgrabowski.bsky.social · 2y agoResignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
"Akademik yayıncıların, özellikle de kitap yayıncılarının, bibliyografik referanslar sunmalarının ve bunların akademik veri tabanlarında doğru şekilde indekslenmesini sağlamaları"
Open Access Tracking Project@oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2y agoCitation counts and inclusion of references in seven free-access scholarly databases: A comparative analysis - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157724001305