@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...

+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...