Ulf-Göran Nilsson

Library consultant. Retired Library Director/Strategist. ORCID:

[OUP Libraries @OUPLibraries]

The @nypl has released an album of "audio landscapes" meant to evoke the sounds of being in a library, including: "rustles, taps, coughs, an echoing voice, [etc.]" Over 200,000 people have streamed the album online. via @guardian https://t.co/KCgMJTlxIe

[Utbildningsdepartementet @Utbdep]

Sverige ska vara ett av världens främsta forsknings- och innovationsländer och det är viktigt att forskningsinfrastrukturen på nationell kan hålla en hög kvalitet, Matilda @ernkrans #forskpol https://t.co/2yJsdbcyJb

[Roger C. Schonfeld @rschon]

MAJOR NEWS: Agreement between Wiley and ResearchGate.

[Aaron Tay @aarontay]

Looks like @2d_search has implemented https://t.co/6NJI4IGckI support! Try my template search to find systematic reviews, review articles, meta-analysis etc. No login required! Default is set to do the topic "creativity" but feel free to change. (1/2) https://t.co/WFqg8nKmPQ

[Jeroen Bosman aka @[email protected] @jeroenbosman]

Huge differences in search results on "COVID 19"|"SARS CoV 2" in search engines:
@MSFTAcademic 401
Google Scholar: 739
@webofscience 1646
@Scopus 4889
@NCBI PubMed 8005
@TheLensOrg The Lens: 10450
@DSDimensions 10595
@CrossrefOrg 28246
Of course there is more to that... 1/15

[Library Journal @LibraryJournal]

In this last installment of our series aimed at helping non-librarians better organize and maintain the books in their homes, we take a look at what is sometimes a controversial subject: getting rid of old and/or outdated books. https://t.co/uP25dlgZoK

[Brian Nosek (@[email protected]) @BrianNosek]

"...presenting modeling results alone is not enough. Scientists must also openly share their model code so that the results can be replicated and evaluated." https://t.co/zYBPTdp9S0

[Ludo Waltman @LudoWaltman]

China plans to radically reform its research assessment system, but what is the best alternative to @webofscience based bibliometric indicators? @LinZhang1117 and @GunnarSivertsen offer some recommendations https://t.co/aZbhYcg1S9

[Roger C. Schonfeld @rschon]

A new and important development as we move towards "pure publish" agreements: PLOS and Iowa State University Library announce APC-free Open Access publishing agreement https://t.co/LBu9X06wUd

[Julia Koricheva @KorichevaLab]

Springer has released over 400 science books downloadable as pdf for free as part of 'Free Textbooks and Library Link special issue during Covid 19 package'. Lots of stats books and some ecology ones as well
You can search and download here: https://t.co/8kDCys1QeR

[Scholastica (this account moved to Bluesky) @scholasticahq]

Research Library Digitization Has Found Its Moment | @IthakaSR @rschon - https://t.co/SdbmVyUPHZ #academiclibrary

[Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian]

"It appears that Sci-Hub is in a sense complementing the gold and green open access models, with preferential coverage of disciplines that are not well-covered through legal gold and green open access models."

Paywalled but this is a Shared-It link: https://t.co/Tfn9cJW8w3

[Hans de Jonge @HLdeJonge]

Things are changing very rapidly. 79 members of the Board of @NeuroCellPress urge @ElsevierConnect to offer a #plan_s compliant route to #openaccess

[Björn Wiman @_wiman]

Fina P O är borta. En av 1900-talets största svenska diktare, kanske den största. https://t.co/O8WD2EvZkC

[Ulf-Göran Nilsson @ugnilsson]

Nu kl 19:00 blir det en behaglig jazztimme direkt från Grünewaldsalen med Margareta Bengtson, sång/harpa, Mattias Ståhl, vibrafon, Pär-Ola Landin, bas och Konrad Agnas, trummor
https://t.co/cdpAdNa4Qu

[Computer Sweden @ComputerSweden]

Sverige ska lyftas ur bottenträsket – nu görs en storsatsning på öppna data
https://t.co/mFJyAtwjPL av @Mamalmqvist

[Ulf-Göran Nilsson @ugnilsson]

"Linking papers to data in repositories is uncommon but increasing -- & is correlated with a 25% increase in citations"

[Ulf-Göran Nilsson @ugnilsson]

GDPR har inte gjort oss tryggare. Tvärtom visar forskning att oron över hur personliga data samlas in och används har ökat. https://t.co/lY7JpQswmn

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

23 April is #WorldBookDay!

In a world disrupted by #COVID19, it is the magic of books that we need now.

Let's unleash the power of reading to dream, to learn and to help us build a better tomorrow!

ℹ️ https://t.co/MjMQG6JGxW #ShareCulture