"A publisher that has developed a library relations strategy has built a substantial organizational infrastructure for learning from the library community." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/w...

😂

This is scholarly misconduct. We have seen university presidents removed from their positions for far less. Why are we saying it's just an editing error if "it was AI" The lack of accountability is astonishing

"The publishers who invest in library relations are making a bet that trust is a strategic asset." @lisalibrarian.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/w...

NEW TODAY: A few thoughts for publishers on developing "a library relations strategy — a deliberate, sustained commitment to engaging with the library community in ways that are substantive, reciprocal, and structurally supported, operating alongside sales relationships."

Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/w...

For as long as I've been attending conference sessions, webinars, etc., about preprint servers, the suggestions for improving them are all to make them function more like journals. Slowly, we will approach convergence?

Figure 25 shows a significant drop in the importance of open-access investments compared to three years ago. sr.ithaka.org/publications...

Figure 4 of this newly released report worries me. E.g., only 75% of library directors agree they are "confident in my ability to articulate the library’s value proposition in a way that aligns with the strategic goals of the college/university administration" (sr.ithaka.org/publications...).

Here's a stellar example of holding authors accountable for hallucinated references. LLMs may have hallucinated, but LLMs didn't submit a paper with hallucinated references. The authors did. Kudos to ACL leaders for taking this action even after original acceptance. 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/

So, are we finally convinced people don't actually read what they cite?

SSRN isn't just social sciences so this headline falls flat for me. I'm intrigued by the finding in the original study that "hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars" ... that gender aspect caught my attention.

Glad to see @ebsco.bsky.social leading the way with aggregators integrating GetFTR. I know this took a ton of work. Great to see this kind of integration finally happening! www.getfulltextresearch.com/ebsco

I'd really love to read something that explores the implications if Elsevier et al win. They seem potentially significant to me, but I'm not an expert. Has anyone seen anything?

The variance and advice I've seen is wild. Glad Abigail is collecting - will be interesting analysis ...

""It was a great honor to represent IFLA and the world’s libraries at the UN General Assembly. Libraries are keystone organizations of the information society, and I was pleased to bring that message to the global stage,” said Hinchliffe." publish.illinois.edu/library-exce...

The range is as fascinating as the top end....

It's a strange feeling to have written a tenure letter for someone only to now, years later, cross paths with them and realize that your prediction of/belief there would be great contribution has come to naught.

@lisalibrarian.bsky.social co-chair of United2Act, shares an update on phase 2 of this collective action against paper mills. United2Act is a project from COPE supporting coordinated, practical responses to the challenge. www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi... @researchinfo.bsky.social

Proud to have two of my students presenting at the iSchool grad student research showcase. Heather Parkin (publisher platforms + impact metrics) & Joseph Mosse (librarianships of resistance + aggression). It is one of my greatest joys to supervise independent studies. Also, you should hire them! :)

Neither expensive nor prohibitively high are defined. Also, note this is not about % of profit/surplus. Just about cost.

White House President's Budget Proposal: " The Budget prohibits the use of Federal funds for expensive subscriptions to academic journals and prohibitively high publishing costs unless required by Federal statute or approved in advance by a Federal agency."

Honestly, it has always been a bad idea.

Intriguing to see the returnn of the acceptability of the embargo period.

It's fine to throw away a book.

As with many (most) things with copyright - yes, no, maybe. Personally, I think probably not. But, I'll never know for sure until the courts rule...

Copyright Education Fellows bsky.app/profile/ifla... #IFLA #librarieshttps://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-advisory-committee-on-copyright-and-legal-matters-launches-copyright-education-fellows-zambia-cohort/

With a read. A friendly edit tho ... not becoming. The infrastructure turn is 20ish years old already.

If you need a little joy today, enjoy this thread...

"Today, Hathitrust announced that a large portion of their collection has been obtained by and is being made available on a pirate website called Anna’s Archive." www.lib.umich.edu/about-us/new...

Related: I am so mad that you can't stop Outlook from adding a red dot to the Outlook tab in your web browser that signals a new message has arrived.

I coach a lot of new librarians on this when they say they can't get anything done on their work computer because they are constantly getting notified of a new email. SHUT THAT OFF. It's useless - you're always getting new emails. There's no chance you aren't.

The cost of fresh vegetables is up a stunning FORTY EIGHT PERCENT from February 2025: www.bls.gov/news.release...

This is the most important point. Business models and their outputs are related but not equivalent.

It helps if we don't conflate the status of the outputs with the business models that produce them... but, alas, that seems unlikely.

And now ... futurism.com/artificial-i...

Well then...

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

just do diamond our way, the One Right Way, and "all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well"

This last part is funniest. They outright said it out. They wont license their content out for competive advantage but somehow they expect and are even successful in getting other publishers to license content to them.. wonder what magic is happening here. (7)

Thought provoking

We need to talk about better metadata in Crossref and DataCite. ROR id, ORCIDs, the lot. In an age of AI bots that attack our open infrastructure, we also need to discuss whether papering over the gaps with industrial grade website scraping is appropriate or sustainable.

Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal

Sad to see this. Also, it's a clear position statement that leads off before the sudden shift to the closure information. Is it there to say this that is also the cause? Bc no reason is given? firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

"Buy as many single books as you like, for $5 each, and we’ll donate the profits to the American Library Association’s Unite Against Book Bans, which empowers people everywhere to stand up in the fight against censorship." fieldnotesbrand.com/products/roo...

Join us next week (Feb 11) for The Global Politics & Economics of Knowledge Exchange! @lisalibrarian.bsky.social Brian O'Leary & David Weinreich will explore how immigration, international security, trade policy, & research investments are reshaping #ScholComm: niso.org/events/globa...

At @chashub.bsky.social Asia? Check out the #SubscribeToOpen panel, starring @bioone.bsky.social @apsphysiology.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social @lisalibrarian.bsky.social How does #S2O meet the needs of librarians, publishers, scholars, and funders around the world? Find out! #OA

The two people sitting next to me on this 24 hour flight brought nothing to read, etc, and are not watching movies. Are they going to talk to each other the entire time? Check on my sanity in a couple of hours!

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...