Janne Pölönen

📢 Our new study (preprint) of national journal landscapes in 7 Latin-American and European countries shows relatively low concentration and a minor role of commercial publishers in scholarly publishing.

Educational institutions are the most common publisher type in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Poland, and Turkey, whereas learned societies dominate in Finland.

Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/cm5uz_v1

Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta (TSV) hakee toistaiseksi voimassa olevaan työsuhteeseen arvioinnin asiantuntijaa, jonka vastuulla on tieteellisten julkaisukanavien arvioinnin koordinointi ja kehittäminen. Hakuaika päättyy 7.4.2025. Lisätietoja hakuilmoituksessa: https://www.tsv.fi/fi/uutiset/tieteellisten-seurain-valtuuskunta-hakee-asiantuntijaa

📢 Register for the 5th Helsinki Initiative webinar (8 December) on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with presentations by Tatsuya Amano, Karen Stroobants and @andrebrasil@social.cwts.nl!

More information and registration: https://www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5th-helsinki-initiative-webinar-multilingualism-scholarly-communication

📢Registration is now open for the RESSH2025 conference 19-21 May 2025 in Helsinki, Finland! We look forward to 46 presentations, 5 posters, and a keynote by Toma Tasovac: "Reshaping Research Assessment: What Research Infrastructures Have Got to Do With It?": https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/ressh2025-conference

📢 Reminder: the deadline for paper and poster submissions to RESSH2025 conference is 31st of January, 2025! The Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities conference is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland.

For more information: https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/ressh2025-conference

Publication in English should not be associated with prestige!

Great EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2022 panel discussion on challenges of recognizing and supporting multilingual scholarly work with
Gustav Bohlin
Marin Dacos @marind@qoto.org
Johan Rooryck @johanrooryck@mstdn.social
Laura Rovelli
Henriikka Mustajoki (moderator)

Panel organized by the Helsinki Inititiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication: https://www.helsinki-initiative.org/en #InAllLanguages

Read the report: https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/news/publication-english-should-not-be-associated-prestige

A great way for research institutions to kick-start research assessment reform journey and review current practices with view to the #CoARA commitments!

EU-funded #GraspOS project invites #universities #funders and other organisations, who are or could become #CoARA signatories, to answer the landscape survey on #ResearchAssessment practices.

Deadline 28 May 2023. Distribute the survey in your networks!
https://graspos.eu/graspos-landscape-survey-on-reforming-research-assessment

While English is the lingua franca of science, researchers also use various other languages in academic work! In a webinar 26 September 2024 15:00-16:30 CEST, Tereza Šímová will present the results of a survey to members of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA). The webinar is organized by the @CoARAssessment@mastodon.social Working-Group on #Multilingualism and Language biases in #researchassessment.

Join us to celebrate #EuropeanDayofLanguages !

Rregistration & program: https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/coara-wg-webinar-multilingualism-and-language-biases-research-assessment

Welcome to RESSH2025 conference 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland! Deadline for paper and poster submissions is 31st of January, 2025.
RESSH2025 of the international association @ENRESSH has a special focus on the social sciences and humanities (SSH): https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/ressh2025-conference

📢 Join Helsinki Initiative Webinar 2 December 2024 15:00-16:30 CET with GinevraPeruginelli, NIcolas Robinson-Garcia & Lucía Céspedes presenting on #multilingualism across STEM and SSH fields and the coverage of publication languages in #OpenAlex.
👉Registration: https://www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/4th-helsinki-initiative-webinar-multilingualism-scholarly-communication

Do you know successful examples of collaboration in #DiamondOA publishing ? Join the DIAMAS Project webinar "Strength through collaboration in Diamond OA publishing" 23 October 2024 15.00-16.00 with @mikaellaakso@mas.to

Registration: https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/events/strength-through-collaboration-diamond-oa-publishing

If you can't join the webinar, but would like to share your experiences with collaborations on Diamond OA publishing, please do so via this anonymous web form: https://forms.gle/oduBEyJehG3cvkww7

Happy 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: https://www.tsv.fi/en/services/directory-of-learned-societies

📢 Webinaari 11.6. klo 10:00-11:30 Yliopistojen, AMKien ja tutkimuslaitosten näkemyksiä tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallisen vaikuttavuuden arvioinnista sekä Alankomaiden, Norjan, Puolan ja UK:n arviointijärjestelmien vertailu.

Ilmoittautuminen ja lisätietoa: https://www.julkaisufoorumi.fi/fi/tapahtumat/organisaatioiden-nakemyksia-tutkimuksen-yhteiskunnallisen-vaikuttavuuden-arvioinnista-2

📢 Deadline extended to 7 February 2025 for paper and poster submissions to RESSH2025 conference! The Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities conference is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland.

For further information, see RESSH2025 event page: https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/ressh2025-conference

New preprint "Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind WoS indexed journals": https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8skzg

We analyzed all WoS journals, focusing on the types of publishing organizations behind them, solo or in collaboration. /w
Zehra Taskin, Emanuel Kulczycki and @mikaellaakso@mas.to

📢 CoARA working groups Multilingualism and TIER organize a survey 16 September - 14 October 2024 targeted to CoARA member organizations on multilingualism and gender in research assessment.

The main goal of the survey is to map how @CoARAssessment@mastodon.social members are currently dealing with multilingualism and language and other biases in view of reforming research assessment.

👉Further information & access to survey: https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/news/survey-coara-member-organizations-multilingualism-and-gender-research-assessment