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A study on scholarly repositories’ availability
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.12879
“[W]e harvested the content of four prominent scholarly registries and resolved over 13 thousand unique repository URLs. […] [T]he results show that about one out of four URLs from repository profiles in scholarly registries is problematic. Moreover, this result is a lower bound, as problems could be related to the content served after a successfully served request.”
Irish Librarians condemn publisher Wiley’s removal of hundreds of titles from ebook collections
Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800)
Open Access: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1262881
Includes e.g.:
Manfred Tietz: Poverty Between Dignity and Criminalization in Early- Modern France and Spain: Attempts to Include and Exclude the Poor
Rome’s Catacomb of Commodilla to open to the public for the first time
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia joins cOAlition S
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia joins cOAlition S | Plan S https://t.co/HnngzT9OM8
— Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp) September 20, 2022
Swiss National Science Foundation joins cOAlition S
https://www.coalition-s.org/snsf-joins-coalition-s/
Mediahist.org
The @mediahistorydl has a new website!
We've added over 1,000 Hollywood pressbooks, tripled the amount of non-English language content, enhanced the interface, and eliminated the delay between digitization to user access. Still free, and always will be. https://t.co/oYZKpAHv27 pic.twitter.com/SQ4vXprnGb
— Eric Hoyt (@HoytEric) September 19, 2022
The Real Women Warriors Behind ‘The Woman King’
A new film stars Viola Davis as the leader of the Agojie, the all-woman army of the African kingdom of Dahomey.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/real-warriors-woman-king-dahomey-agojie-amazons-180980750/
The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
Ten years ago today, a senior Harvard historian of early Christianity walked to a lectern across from the Vatican and announced the discovery of what she believed was an ancient papyrus in which Jesus speaks of a wife. 1/8 pic.twitter.com/wrQjpvOXFZ
— Ariel Sabar (@arielsabar) September 18, 2022
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
Kings in the Mountain: Myths from Germany and Byzantium
https://www.medievalists.net/2022/09/kings-mountain-myths-germany-byzantium/
“[A] series of myths arose in various European countries about the return of a former great king, who is just sleeping, waiting for his time to return and save his homeland. These “king in the mountain” myths have appeared across the world, but have been most prevalent in Europe, featuring both mythical and real historical figures, such as King Arthur, Charlemagne, and King Sebastian I of Portugal. Here, we will focus on two of the most prominent of these myths: the long slumber and future return of the great Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos.”
See also the article “Bergentrücking” in: Enzyklopädie des Märchens.
Von Reinhard Kirchner – <span class=”int-own-work” lang=”de”>Eigenes Werk</span>, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
10 years of the IFLA open access statement: a call to action
Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96
8,000 medieval medical recipes being digitised by Cambridge University Library
Abandoned library in France
Limerick Castles Database
Online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia launched
Archival Research Guide for Grad Students
Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books Catalogue Digitized
USA: No More Paywalls on Federally Funded Research
“The Biden administration will by 2026 require that all publicly funded work be deposited in designated repositories immediately on publication.”
“Repositories are an innovative and fundamental part of the global open access ecosystem”
An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions
“On a rainy afternoon earlier this year, I logged into my OpenAI account and typed a simple instruction for the research company’s artificial-intelligence algorithm, GPT-3: Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3 and add scientific references and citations inside the text.”
Authors publishing repeatedly in predatory journals
https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1489
“It is a recurrent theme of interest and debate in the discussion of publishing through predatory outlets how these publications are affecting the scientific communities. Predatory journals have been accused of threatening the academic integrity as well as research publications (Angadi & Kaur, 2020; Hayden et al., 2021). Publications in predatory journals are characterized by lower study and reporting quality (Hayden et al., 2021). However, the extent of the problem is highly debated. Some countries and subject areas are more affected than others (Marina & Sterligov, 2021) and their visibility varies within fields due to different indexing policies in databases (Marina & Sterligov, 2021; Oermann et al., 2021). Actions should be taken to ensure that predatory journals are restrained. Callaghan and Nicholson (2020, p. 1446) conclude that ‘[t]he elimination of predatory publishing would be of benefit to all stakeholders who rely on social and natural science for valid and rigorous research that can improve their lives’. Furthermore, Callaghan and Nicholson (2020) argue that to restrain the predatory journals more work is needed within a number of different focus areas. The results of this study imply that also experienced researchers need to be aware of these journals. Consequently, merely informing the inexperienced researchers will not be sufficient.”
On the fabrication of well-poisoning accusations in medieval Europe
Helpful Guide to Writing
Helpful guide to writing. pic.twitter.com/NWhIKzwBOm
— Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 (@ReskiLab) August 2, 2022