scholarly communication specialist at Utrecht University libraryhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeroenbosman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeroenbosman.bsky.social/post/3lyzcwulv7k2lCiting openness and validity issues, Sorbonne University in France decides to no longer supply data to the THE-ranking and thus get delisted. This is 4th major European university to take this step, after Utrecht, Zürich and Lorraine. #universityrankings https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorbonne-university-decides-withdraw-times-higher-education-world-university-rankings17 Sep 2025 07:31 +0000at://did:plc:maawdzxfaikdyca4pvw3ulby/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzcwulv7k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeroenbosman.bsky.social/post/3lyzc2x5klk2g@osfair.bsky.social anyone knows what is today's livestream link?17 Sep 2025 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:maawdzxfaikdyca4pvw3ulby/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzc2x5klk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jeroenbosman.bsky.social/post/3lyighmzbxs23Utrecht University Library will not renew their Web of Science license. Access to this database with closed, proprietary data ends in 2026. https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026. Step by step we foster a science system with open metadata. We committed to that by signing the @barcelonadori.bsky.social10 Sep 2025 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:maawdzxfaikdyca4pvw3ulby/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyighmzbxs23https://bsky.app/profile/jeroenbosman.bsky.social/post/3ltfefkmu6222For publication metadata nerds: viz of the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The link goes to the online version that is fully animated, and has additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y9KcASM3wTkmPnKcNNUBQy9o6AdwH1a90sir4tnEdgA/edit?slide=id.g361f6de3c85_0_0#slide=id.g361f6de3c85_0_007 Jul 2025 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:maawdzxfaikdyca4pvw3ulby/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltfefkmu6222https://bsky.app/profile/jeroenbosman.bsky.social/post/3lquurjlhb22bScience, researchers and research communities increasingly need to be resilient to threats and actual incursions relating to budget, academic freedom, safety in the public arena, science databases and infrastructures and more. We created this framework to inspire communities in their resilience.05 Jun 2025 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:maawdzxfaikdyca4pvw3ulby/app.bsky.feed.post/3lquurjlhb22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeroenbosman.bsky.social/post/3kazfuweuiu2qUtrecht University in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University Ranking provided by Times Higher Education by not sending that company data anymore. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence this thread 1/n05 Oct 2023 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:maawdzxfaikdyca4pvw3ulby/app.bsky.feed.post/3kazfuweuiu2q