NISOInfo<p>Our webinar series returns next month with a roundtable on <a href="https://social.niso.org/tags/retractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retractions</span></a> and <a href="https://social.niso.org/tags/ResearchIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchIntegrity</span></a>! Join us Aug 13 and 20 (11am EDT) to get the latest on retractions and strategies to address them. As always, NISO webinars are FREE to all staff at member organizations: niso.org/events/retra...</p>
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"Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a MDPI trademark (“Foods”, “Plants”). In the spirit of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the “Discover” series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants).
(...) You can try it yourself in our “Guess Who Is Who” mini-game (...)
Why? How? And let’s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? It’s certainly not the authors."
The science academies of the G7 issued this statement today - the key passage is "As democracies, it is critical that our nations continue to support academic freedom, institutional autonomy, the integrity of research, research security, and the responsible conduct of research in support of the public good."
https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/Ottawa%20Declaration_EN_0.pdf
Sadly easy to see that this emphasis on "gold-standard science" by the US administration is just the latest and more plausible-sounding version of "Do your own research" - a blatant attempt to use the inherent scepticism of genuine science as a weapon against science itself. No good can come from anti-science ideologues cherry-picking ideas from research integrity and taking them out of context.
https://www.cos.io/about/news/cos-statement-on-restoring-gold-standard-science-executive-order
www.cos.ioCOS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive OrderThe Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally. Ordinarily, such prominent promotion of these practices would be cause for COS to celebrate advancement of its mission. Unfortunately, their application in this Executive Order is counterproductive for open science’s purpose to accelerate discovery, advance treatments, and create knowledge.
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13/ The MAHA report isn’t just an oversight—it’s a deliberate disregard for legitimate scientific inquiry. The scientific community is pushing back hard, as researchers and experts are publicly denying involvement in the studies cited. 
#ResearchIntegrity #FakeStudies #MAHAReport
“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”
The dark side of paleoanthropology.
The Guardian · The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
In the research life cycle, data stewards are the unsung heroes who ensure datasets are organized, documented, and reusable. Without them, context is lost, metadata vanishes, and continuity breaks down, turning valuable research into an unsolvable puzzle.
Stewardship isn’t just good practice but, is essential for reproducibility, collaboration, and long-term impact.
You say #OpenData is good for science?
What if it feeds paper mills & AI to churn out 2 fake papers a day?
Science sounds the alarm: public datasets are becoming raw material for junk science.
Time to rethink our standards.
#OpenScience #AI #PaperMills #ResearchIntegrity
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.zgawnij
Science is under threat and our Library @tibhannover is stepping up! To safeguard vital research, TIB has built a dark archive of #arXiv, preserving millions of scientific preprints in case the main platform goes down. A great step for resilient, decentralized access to knowledge worldwide!
#library #science #darkarchive #USPol #OpenScience #DigitalPreservation #ResearchIntegrity
https://blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/protecting-science-tib-builds-dark-archive-for-arxiv/
TIB-Blog · Protecting Science: TIB builds Dark Archive for arXiv - TIB-Blog
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How can university libraries protect researchers from predatory journals?
At the national seminar on displaced university libraries, I presented a framework for creating local white lists of journals — not as a tool of restriction, but as a way to guide and support responsible publishing.
VACUP criteria
Journal screening tools
Nordic best practices
How to spot red flags
Full presentation: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33803.81442
Keynote on author identity from @alicemeadows this morning on the final day at our conference in Oslo.
The recent STM Association report on trusted identity recommends institutionally verified identity and using ORCID trust markers:
https://stm-assoc.org/new-stm-report-trusted-identity-in-academic-publishing/
Practical Tips for Editors: Identifying hallmarks of suspected Gen AI and suspected image manipulation by Dan Stuckey at our conference in Oslo.
Intercepting Misconduct - Practical Tips for Editors is chaired by Jason Roberts, with Paula Saikkonen, Dan Stuckey, and Ines Steffens.
Our final session today brings together experts sharing practical, low-cost ways to detect and prevent research misconduct - especially valuable for editors at smaller journals.