Mikael Laakso
Associate Professor in Information Studies @ Tampere University, Finland. Conducting research, teaching, and supervision on scholarly communication, open science, and meta-research.
- Reposted by Mikael Laakso💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated ✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoTampereen yliopiston Tiedon valoa -tapahtuma on 23.-24.1. keskustakampuksen Päätalossa. Tapahtuma on laajennettu kaksipäiväiseksi ja siihen on vapaa pääsy. Ohjelmaa on kaikille tieteestä, tutkimuksesta ja kulttuurista kiinnostuneille! www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...
- Today I have to honor to act as opponent the doctoral disstertation of Michele Gibney at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. If you want to follow the action there is an open Zoom-link here, with a start in 5 minutes: lnu.se/en/meet-linn.... Link to dissertation: doi.org/10.15626/LUD...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoA comprehensive investigation of university published journals, - mapping and profiling journals globally (including data from Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and #DOAJ) New article from Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Thank you for sharing the paper! In relation to the immense collective footprint of university journals we know relatively little about them, so more research is needed so that they could best be understood, acknowledged, and supported.
- 🌏A comprehensive investigation of university published journals, providing a mapping and profiling of 19,414 journals around the world (including data from Scopus, Web of Science, @OpenAlex and @doaj.bsky.social) @mikaellaakso.bsky.social #DiamondOA link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Mikael Laakso"From mess to method: A case study about designing a workshop on research data discovery", doi.org/10.7557/11.8.... Read about how a network of library research support staff in Denmark are helping researchers learn how to search for published #researchdata. #FAIR #datadiscovery #retrieval
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoMy Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoReminder about next week's online panel. www.psu.edu/news/univers...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoSo glad to see this out! This was a big undertaking and I'm very happy with the end result. Thanks in particular to @judithfathallah.bsky.social for the work on this
- 🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...
- In three months and some change the full peer-reviewed paper based on this preprint is now out in Journal of Documentation doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... 🎉. Results and analysis did not change in the revision process but the theoretical framing and interpretation is strengthened based on reviewer feedback.
- 📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- And I can be the first to admit that the "reasonings" for open access can and should still be improved. More research should be consulted systematically, and the codes are not fully discretionary (i.e. there is conceptual overlap). But that is best left for a systematic review and dedicated study
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoTwo post-doc positions in CNRS on international projects in Paris, for 17 & 24 months on #STS. The first one on #openscience monitoring, the second one on #opendata in research evaluation. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Mikael Laakso1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
- Reposted by Mikael Laakso74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoNew article in Katina Magazine: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?' Intended as an intervention into the ongoing discussions & activity around #DiamondOA to bring books into focus, the authors want to foster further conversations on this topic & invite feedback. Comment yours below 👇
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoA real treat! Mikael Laakso is doing a talk on digital preservation and #OA publications!! @mikaellaakso.bsky.social 🎤 “Long-Term Preservation of Open Access Publications: Facts, Current Practices, and Future Outlook” by Mikael Laakso 👉 Register here: unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...
- Reposted by Mikael Laakso📢 New in UKSG Insights: A model to help publishers implement globally fair and transparent pricing | Discover practical ideas to make pricing more equitable across regions. 👉 Read more: insights.uksg.org/articles/10.... #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing @lorraineestelle.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoHappy to announce the soft launch of DoLS - the Directory of Learned Societies, an open, growing database of learned societies and their journals worldwide, facilitating visibility, networking, and community-building! Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoHosting a #DiamondOA event? Share it on the #EDCHForum! It’s easy: 🗨️ Create a topic ➕ Click “Create event” 🔗 Add details (Zoom, registration, etc.) It appears in the shared calendar! Stay connected 👉 buff.ly/twPYd9q #OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicEvents
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoInstitutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus - 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages - 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages - Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata - Noncommercial early-access release huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
- It is that time of the year again 🎉Walt Crafword's most recent comprehensive review of the composition of journals and articles by journals included in the DOAJ is out. APC-based article volumes keep consistently growing while no-fee/Diamond journals are largely stagnant in terms of growth.
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoOur latest book - "The Open Science Cookbook," edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee - is a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research. bit.ly/3ZnmRKA #openscience
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoTuore Signum 2/2025 painottuu #avointiede teemoihin. Mukana @mikaellaakso.bsky.social haastattelu. Lisäksi aiheina mm. JYX #julkaisuarkisto, #Annif automaattisen asiasanoituksen osuvuus, #robotiikka, ja kirjastojen rooli #teknologiakehitys ja #TKI-investoinnit suuntaamisessa. journal.fi/signum
- 📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- As we write in the paper, press releases are a particular genre of content that need to be taken for what they are and are not compareable to e.g. 1-1 interviews. It was quite exciting to dig into this (for us) new type of research data in the context of scholarly publishing.Any feedback is welcome!
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoMies! Oletko vähintään 15 ja suomalainen tai Suomessa asuva? Osallistutko pelikulttuuriin esim. pelaamalla video-, rooli-, lauta- tai miniatyyripelejä, katsomalla pelivideoita tai vaikkapa cossaamalla? Tervetuloa vastaamaan kyselyyn pelikulttuurista ja mieheydestä osoitteessa bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoIf you're interested in learning more about #Collaboration in #DiamondOA publishing (successes & failures!), why not read the #DIAMAS report @mikaellaakso.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1509...
- Next week is going to be fun! Join the web stream to take part in this conference that is happening on Tuesday next week.
- It’s #DIAMASWeek — and today’s panel is all about collaboration. Panel: “Collaboration in #DiamondOA Publishing” 🕥 14:00–15:00 CEST No sustainable Diamond ecosystem without cooperation.
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoWe 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...
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Science is under attack. In this post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and I detail events around 5 types of threats, and we propose a resilience model to safeguard scientific communities and open infrastructures. upstream.force11.org/the-resilien... - Reposted by Mikael Laakso🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons". Read more ⬇️ openfuture.eu/publication/...
- Here is a short video introduction to my research topics produced by Tampere University. I think it is nice that these are being made for researchers to put faces and voices to otherwise static faculty listings. Slow motion library antics included 🐢📚💻. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPi...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoPreprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? How does this vary by discipline and region? Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, I just published article answering these questions. osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Mikael Laakso1/5🧵After a long trip through peer review limbo, our paper on inclusion and public participation in Open Science policy is finally out! 📖 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoWhat did 2024 look like from the perspective of #OpenScience? Annual review topics include diamond OA channels, award-winning open educational resources, publishers' AI agreements, a lawsuit against major publishers and Plan S impact assessment: blogs.helsinki.fi/thinkopen/op... #openaccess
- This new preprint by @najko.bsky.social is really interesting for anyone into bibliometric data quality and/or hybrid open access through transformative agreements.
- Najko Jahn: Estimating transformative agreement impact on hybrid open access: A comparative large-scale study using Scopus, Web of Science and open metadata arxiv.org/abs/2504.15038 arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15038 arxiv.org/html/2504.15038
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoInvasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: journals that adopt predatory practices after being acquired — My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @abalkina.bsky.social, @albertomartin.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoOur paper "Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations" was published today in Scientometrics: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Thank you Emanuel Kulczycki, @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social for the great collaboration!
- This is not a big problem - neither for open access or the world more largely - but why do I often see open access e-books that do not enable download of the whole book as a single file? Here is an interesting book I want to read but neither JSTOR or De Gruyter provide this doi.org/10.2307/jj.1...
- I can understand publishers wanting per-chapter analytics, and I can understand also offering per-chapter files for convenience. But why does it feel like I have to pick up scraps from the floor and spend time stitching together the book into a complete whole to browse/read it from cover to cover?
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoCosmologist Syksy Räsänen opened the debate on the future of scholarly publishing on the Think Open blog in November 2023, and now he summarises the discussion so far with comments: blogs.helsinki.fi/thinkopen/fu... #openaccess #openscience #overlayjournals
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoTwo salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoNew preprint from Team Open Science in Developing Countries: osf.io/preprints/ps... Open science movement has transformed research landscape, but its impact has largely been confined to developed countries 🗺️ More is needed to support OS in developing countries 🧵👇
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoWe're advertising another postdoc on @morphss.bsky.social. This is a two-year position at Sheffield working on open research practices in the social sciences (particularly data sharing) with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD201/r...
- Reposted by Mikael Laakso🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Are preprints reshaping journal publishing—or being absorbed into it? Our new paper in JDoc examines the dynamics at play! 👀 With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social, & Irene Pasquetto 📖 doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... (1/🧵)
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoRECRUITING: The @copim.bsky.social project is looking for somebody to work full time (until end April 2026) on archiving and preservation of #OABooks. Based at Loughborough Uni vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Closing date 3 March
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoEhdokkaat Vuoden tiedekirjaksi: tiedekustantajat.fi/tiedotteet/v...
- It has been six months since I started in my new position at Tampere University and today the university published a short interview with me. It is a short read if you are interested in what I´m doing and how I ended up working here in the first place. www.tuni.fi/en/news/asso...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoSuomen tiedekustantajien liiton etäluentosarja Perjantaipajan toinen tapaaminen järjestetään 21.2. Tuolloin @mikaellaakso.bsky.social kertoo avoimesta vertaisarvioinnista. Perjantaipajan luennot pidetään kerran kuussa Zoomissa klo 13-14.30, ja ne ovat kaikille avoimia ja maksuttomia.
- This is a cool way to browse around in the data! Please someone do something similar but for only open access books that can can be read through a single click from the global shelf.
- Over 97million books visualised according to ISBN number - phiresky.github.io/isbn-visuali...
- Akatemiahankehakemus jätetty😌Juhannuksena nähdään oliko tästä hyötyä, toistaiseksi en ole onnistunut olemaan ~15% parhaiden joukossa. Ainakin tuli CV:t sun muut laput päivitettyä joten ei tämä joka tapauksessa ihan hyödyöntä näppäilyä ollut.
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoI'm excited to spread the word of the open position for Senior Manger of the Open Research Funders Group. This is a dream job for any #OpenAccess advocate. Great people, great work & a huge opportunity to make an impact. sparcopen.org/who-we-are/c...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoA preprint by @rupertgatti.bsky.social, Pierre Mounier, and myself on the meaning of #DiamondOpenAccess beyond 'no fee'. zenodo.org/records/1444...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoThe call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open! We’re after ideas for sessions, talks, posters & online symposia. Deadline 7 February metascience.info/call-for-pro... And if you haven’t already, save the date! 30 June to 2 July #Metascience25 @briannosek.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social
- Vertaisarviointi on tärkeää mutta pääosin näkymätöntä työtä. Tänä vuonna olen arvioinut yli kymmenen tutkimusartikkelikäsikirjoitusta, aikaa siihen on mennyt paljon mutta samalla oppii myös itse. Osallistu myös sinä #vertaisarvioin kampanjaan! Tietoa ja materiaalit: sivistys.fi/tapahtumakal...
- Reposted by Mikael Laakso✨Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor in Indigenous Publishing (in my program)! It is pretty remarkable we can have this role. No PhD required. I hope you can help us find the best candidate: www.sfu.ca/publishing/n...
- Kirjoittajille maksutonta avointa julkaisemista voi tukea ja edistää monin tavoin, tiedelehdillä on monet rajapinnat.
- Visio globaalisti tasavertaisesta, taloudellisesti kestävästä ja lukijoille avoimesta tieteellisestä julkaisemisesta ajaa kirjoittajamaksutonta avointa julkaisemista eteenpäin. Kokosimme kahdeksan tapaa, joilla tutkija voi edistää timanttijulkaisemista #openaccess blogs.helsinki.fi/thinkopen/ti...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoNature editorial on the challenges of digital preservation, including our work on vanished #openaccess journals led by @mikaellaakso.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoDid I mention that I'm looking for a new role? If anyone is interested in award-winning work on digital preservation, digital textuality, fixing scholcomms systems and their economics, or even just plain old literary criticism, please get in touch.
- Finally! Zotero is now available in beta form for android devices, play.google.com/store/apps/d..., get it while it´s hot, they are still limiting the number of downloads during the beta testing phase.
- Reposted by Mikael LaaksoNew edited volume: Challenges in Research Policy And it's open access! 👍 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- New preprint out today with @ekulczycki.bsky.social @jpolonen.bsky.social, @zehrataskin.bsky.social. If you are interested in better data on publishing learned societies ▶️ "Learned societies in the academic landscape: Challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations." doi.org/10.31235/osf...
