My old blog had (has) comments via the Blogger.com platform, but I did not have anything for the new blog. A couple of options are used, like Disqus and comments via GitHub. However, these both have the downside of a vendor lock-in and the whole point of moving my blog was to break out from such lock-ins.

Last week, I was interviewed on the program Breitband on Deutschlandfunk Kultur about the ruling of a Belgian court against four shadow libraries, as well as the Open Library of the Internet Archive (Krempl, 2025). The broadcast is now available online. Enjoy listening! Further information about the research group can be found on our official website.

At the frontier of technology, humanity is the experiment. The question now is, who is designing the experiment?

Leiden Madtrics readers might already be familiar with what some have called a “great project” but a “terrible acronym”: GLOBAL, the Guidance List for the repOrting of Bibliometric AnaLyses. Last summer, we invited bibliometricians to join the GLOBAL Delphi study to co-develop a reporting guideline for bibliometric analyses.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has introduced authentication with passkeys and will disable local accounts on September 15. Reading Rogue Scholar content has always been free and never required user accounts or cookie permissions. This is true both for web and API usage.

Für Bibliotheken und Archive gelten jeweils unterschiedliche rechtliche Anforderungen. Was gilt aber für Einrichtungen, die Archiv und Bibliothek zugleich sind? Der neue von Paul Klimpel und Katrin Lehnert verfasste Leitfaden des Digitalen Deutschen Frauenarchivs befasst sich mit dieser Frage und gibt Antworten. Kleinere Institutionen beheimaten häufig Orte für Recherche, die beides sind: Bibliothek und Archiv.

This post is based on a presentation I gave in June 2025 as part of a Metascience 2025 Preconference Virtual Symposium convened by Sven Ulpts and Sheena Bartscherer and including Thomas Hostler, Lai Ma, Lisa Malich, and Carlos Santana.

In diesem Beitrag werden Ergebnisse einer deutschlandweiten Umfrage zur Erfassung von Publikationskosten an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen in Deutschland aus dem Projekt OA Datenpraxis vorgestellt.

I just saw a really interesting paper by Scott Nelson and Jeffrey Heinz (Nelson and Heinz 2025) that proposes a model of phonology and phonetics as complex function application that maintains a discrete phonology while also alowing for things like incomplete neutralization. I myself am always sort of able to follow formal notation, but get a better understanding if I try rewriting it in a programming language of some sort.

TLDR: We’ve successfully moved the main Crossref systems to the cloud! We’ve more to do, with several bugs identified and fixed, and a few still ongoing.

After three years of collaboration across four countries and multiple disciplines, the VOICES project has come to a close.