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...

+1000

Oh look, I have the most read 2025 piece! That it was about the attempt to cut indirect cost rates on federal grants by fiat is I think indicative of the kind of policy chaoes we've been seeing. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/05/t...

Happy New Year! 2026 will be a year of change for me. After 34 years of service, I’ll be retiring from the University at the end of May and beginning a new chapter — launching my own consultancy focused on working with publishers and libraries (more on that soon!). (1/2)

This is everything good in the world

There’s a lot of complex stuff going on but gosh yes basically this.

This could get really complicated...

Becoming a tenured professor is a bit like becoming an NBA forward or a successful recording artist. (Or a novelist or a working fine artist or a pediatric cardiologist.) The supply is massively greater than the demand, and everyone is excellent. This is a hedge fund of yourself, not a career goal.

A friend made a video clip if you want to watch my UN remarks. cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/2503451/em...

It's been a busy four years!

Such a "pinch me am I dreaming" moment today. That's me, at the podium of the UN General Assembly, speaking on behalf of IFLA and the world's libraries. What an honor to contribute to the WSIS+20 Plenary and to represent!

Food for thought publishers! All of the major submission platforms support @orcid.org reviewer credit... #researchsky

It's fascinating to see emerging defenses of the utility of barriers after decades of arguments that the end goal should be to make everything as open and reusable as possible with minimal friction. Today's exhibit: creativecommons.org/2025/12/10/i...

I am so charmed by this. A great reminder that the world is so much bigger than our own part. See also - international students' obsession with our campus squirrels.

🗣 Thanks to Wiley for sharing this POV from ORCID Board Chair @lisalibrarian.bsky.social Watch the full interview here. #Researchsky #ORCID #ORCIDBoard #Wiley #Librarians #ResearchInstitutions #ScholComms #AiLiteracy

This was the day Apoorva Shah and I discovered we could literally talk for hours about discovery, researchers, and AI. Probably good they edited to just a few highlights! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Dg...

NEW: Over the past two years, my JSTOR colleagues and I have been partnering with librarians & archivists to co-create a "collections processing tool"—a new kind of service that empowers practitioners to expand discovery & impact of distinctive collections at scale. about.jstor.org/blog/what-is...

What's your favorite AI hack? @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social chefs @lyconrad.bsky.social, @roohighosh.bsky.social, @irfanullah.bsky.social, @lisalibrarian.bsky.social, Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Dianndra Roberts, and Tim Vines share theirs here:

I share three personal "AI hacks" in today's Scholarly Kitchen Ask-the-Chefs. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/13/a...

The only way to prevent the use of your research is not to share it. Don't talk about it, present on it, or publish it.

And another talk where this is relevant and being confused. As a reminder, if it's legal under copyright, it's not the CC license/open that makes it ok for AI to train on your work ... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

Also, not a new problem/question. CC BY on articles has relieved many corporations of subscription costs and allowed them to opt out of supporting the publishing ecosystem. #openscience #cmuoss25

Sometimes I wish people in educational spaces were required to understand & spot basic tactics of how vendors / tech outfits operate, like "embrace, extend, extinguish". So many people with what's analogous to "map literacy" (at advanced literacy levels!), yet so few with analogous "street smarts".

I don't know why Bluesky is labeling an out-of-copyright classical engraving as adult content, but I promise you this is on bibliometrics!

With a number of libraries canceling transformative agreements, will support for publishing OA become part of the recruitment pitch for a campus? Similar to how the size of collections have been for decades?

I'm so pleased to share this SK piece I did with Heather Parkin, a master's student in the @ischoolui.bsky.social. In light of DORA and other attempts to reform bibliometrics, this piece examines how publishers platform journal and article metrics. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/11/i...

Before...

Great post this week from @lisalibrarian.bsky.social that hopes to clear up some of the confusions around Creative Commons licenses and the use of such content for AI training. This speaks to the ongoing failure of the publishing and OA communities to make clear just what these licenses mean

Consolidation. corp.oup.com/news/oxford-...

"Copyright’s foundation includes both exclusive rights and built-in freedoms. CC licenses expand one side of that balance — they do not erase the other." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

"A CC license can only expand the terms of use — essentially, what you can do without seeking the additional permission that you would need under copyright." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

"A CC license does not replace copyright law; it operates within it. It tells users, “here is what you can do without asking,” but it does not take away what they could have done if there were no CC license applied." — @lisalibrarian.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

Very first panel of #chsconf25, and a speaker repeats the claim that my piece in SK yesterday was written to explain isn't true. Please read! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

New from me today. TL;DR.. No! But, read the piece to learn why! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

Just realized that last night marked daylight savings so I feel better about how late I was awake lol. In any case, this move slightly weakens the pro-preprint case for journals not adding value and (in the case of review & position papers) strengthens the case for Article Development Charges.

I'm sympathetic but ... "Before being considered for submission to arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review." blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

Excited to see this final output from our IMLS Proritizing Privacy grant published! crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

Pretzels continue to be a winning Halloween give-away. One tiny ghoul: "Pretzels! I LOVE THESE!" Second most popular, the gummy worms.

Very cool! Congrats to @eve.gd and the @kcommons.bsky.social team. Great to see @orcid.org's Global Participation Fund grants being put to good use!

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

NICE!

Labor conditions are learning conditions...

If progress depends on scholars being actively interested in the infrastructures of publishing, we need some really big thinking on what might motivate that interest, bc it doesn't seem that scholars find these infrastructures inherently interesting.

At the end of another Open Access Week, where the virtues of open infrastructure & standards have been rightly praised, I'm grappling with whether OpenAlex is incapable of creating an accurate author profile for me because it relies on RORs while I'm a scholar without institutional affiliation.

As if vegetables grow overnight, especially in climates where it goes below freezing overnight right now.