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I'm not aware of any effort like the one described in this thread - an open registry of reviewer interest/availability (though post-review, a publisher can write reviewer activity to the reviewer's ORCID record). Tho, I know there are companies providing vetted reviewers to publishers for a fee.

Efficiently, in my first two hours in London, I've made all the mistakes I typically make in taking trains here.

If we actually want scholarship to be meaningfully open we need expanded access to libraries and education. Actual education where you read and learn stuff with other people, not chatbot substitutes.

This thread reminding me how grateful I am some research libraries collect (and defend collecting) "popular culture" --ephemera that turns out to be really important primary material. Imagine there's at least one librarian out there who collected tabloids in spite of being scorned for doing so.

I'm incredibly grateful to @lisapeet.bsky.social of @libraryjournal.bsky.social for all the recent coverage of archives and preservation, including this interview with me about @jstor.bsky.social Digital Stewardship Services. www.libraryjournal.com/story/progra...

Well, this is a twist. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/09/08/s...

I'd like to read an essay on the implications of the Anthropic agreement for everyone else using LibGen files. None bc the case settled without a legal finding? Does it mean we can expect to see growing lawsuits for use of pirated copy?

People kept telling me to read “The Body Keeps the Score.” I was shocked at what it actually says.

People confusing a settlement for a finding of law need to take a pause and think a bit. And, it absolutely does not keep your work out of AI training data.

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THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.

This would be super interesting. Especially over time. I'm guessing it'd definitely be true in years 1-3, after that maybe not.

WELP. Just got our first message that a Canadian library can't lend due to tariffs.

Just saw a note from a vendor asking people not to order books from a particular publisher because their books are printed in India and thus now garnering 50% tariffs. Wondering what the hit across the publishing landscape is about to be.

“It is important to keep in mind that any cap is a cap on the amount that can be budgeted to be paid from a grant. It is not a cap on what publishers can charge. What publishers charge may be influenced by a budget cap, but many other factors will also impact on that,” said Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe..

I'm telling you. If you ever read a "retiring today" profile of a school janitor, you'll see a passionate educator who has made a difference, every day, for hundreds, even thousands, of students. And, they articulate the mission as well as, or even better than, any teacher or principal.

I look forward to teaching graduate students who came through high school with no phones allowed in class and/or at school. Also, I love the opening line of this essay. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Every time someone tells me, "I don't use AI at all," I realize just how invisible this integration is to most.

The sociologist in me is having a blast eavesdropping on the kids as they develop new beliefs and rules about screens. Without cellphones they now say things like, “omg she was on a screen ALL WEEKEND” when another kid follows their private school phone rule. It’s becoming a bit of a thing.

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My hill: kids are naturally creative and artistic. You give kids paper and something to draw with and you will get the wildest shit ever created. It's an actual tragedy & horrifically anti-human to be shoving AI on them and encouraging them to stunt that essential part of themselves.

My favorite are the people who just reply to an article share with, “paywall”. Like a judge yelling, “guilty!” I block them.

If you're trying to keep up on what's happening with US federal grants and cost recovery, and what it might mean for libraries and publishers, today's Scholarly Kitchen's post is for you! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/11/f...

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This is going to be interesting given that some scholarly journals require a declaration of the model in disclosure. (Also, that the system will use multiple models for queries ... yeah, it is not going to be easy to follow those journal directions.)

My hot take: Capping the allowable expense for an APC in an NIH grant budget will drive US libraries to transformative agreements and other ways of paying for publishing to support authors in meeting federal mandates while also publishing in their preferred (and rewarded) venues.

Because they think everyone else is stupid you cannot convince them that government is hard

Definitely a best practice in assessment ...

Stunning data point. "62% of US authors across all disciplines expect to publish fewer articles in the next 1–2 years, citing policy and funding challenges" www.deltathink.com/delta-thinks...

Well...this is interesting. "President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “commonsense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of copyrighted material used in training frontier models." www.wired.com/story/presid...

There's a real reason why neoliberal interventions are often designed to promote transparency. It's a value that dodges the question of how to actually improve things and instead treats everyone as equally capable of navigating the service as a consumer.

This is one of the things that keeps me up at night. Without actual AI legislation to address AI problems, the consequences of trying to get there via copyright are going to imperil everything from web archiving to cultural analytics. Legislative failure is holding my whole academic field hostage.

Has anyone encountered a scholarly journal that is free to read with personal account where the account option is open to anyone not just society members?

I can state my "opposition" to AI quite bluntly. I have spent years working to get scholarship to be available openly and freely so that the benefits of education and research are available to all. The backlash against AI is engendering a copyright maximalist approach that threatens that vision.

Many digital humanists will be articulating a complex, nuanced position that tries to balance support for open access with valid concern about AI exploitation of the commons. They're going to need a contrasting example of someone whose support for OA remains devoid of nuance — and 🙋‍♂️ I volunteer!

Maybe let's see how well it works out for Gates first since this is their policy?

Advocates of preprint policies would do well to learn the lesson from open access policies which have been successful mainly because we threw money at publishers and not because of any real ethical commitment from academics. Mandating preprints might actually work against the desired culture change.

And you need to be open to the reality that these folks might not think the system is broken in the same ways you do.

Looks good. I think there's a lot of work to be done on the relationship between openness and transparency and whether they're separable (I think they are). Separating the two concepts might help nurture this kind of plurastic understanding of open research.

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this too...

Watch every APC rise to the cap ...

Ah, remember the early days of the web and what we'd say about .gov sites? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

" the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible" For FY26, which starts Oct 1. www.nih.gov/news-events/...

"For me, this decision illustrates a number of problems with the move towards open science, but particularly the idea implicit in many open science interventions that transparency is a substitute for governance." (www.samuelmoore.org/2025/06/19/t...)

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"The NIH didn’t respond to a query about how it will check for compliance." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is significant.