1983 I paid the University of London Library to do an electronic search of The Philosopher’s Index for every philosophy paper with ‘Exploitation’ in title or abstract for my MPhil thesis. It was done over phone lines to California, in the middle of the night, when phone charges were cheaper.

Sigh.

There are people who decry the corporate and proprietary homogenisation of the internet and personal computing; people who yearn for community-led alternatives. When you point out that those alternatives exist and all they have to do is use them, they say, "No, not like that."

Cue publishers mentioning a VoR benefit that the source files aren't published? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SN flips a journal to open, and the associate editors resign.

Sharing my new venture. I'm excited to expand my work with scholarly publishers and platforms, facilitating deeper integration of library perspectives in their work. librarianintheloop.com

"So the 1% list reproduces the same prestige hierarchy with the same biases it claims to replace." Of course, it could be that they really just are THE BEST. Or it could be that this is a bad ranking 😂

Champaign-Urbana folks/visitors, my retirement party is tomorrow, Wednesday, June 24, 2-4 pm in the Main Library, room 428. Please come by and have some cake!

Apparently, Chrome decided that if I had finished purging all the paper files in my office before my end-of-month retirement, I probably didn't need any of the tabs I had open either. #lolsob

Everyone in schol comm, please repeat after me: Standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; stand . . .

📢 Academics & journal editors: I'm working on a story about donors using financial intermediaries to fund studies "anonymously". - Is this common in your field? - Does your uni have rules to prevent this? - Would your journal accept a declaration of an "anonymous donation"? 📱sehill.11 on Signal

@ryancordell.org of interest I imagine

Earlier this week, I shared my conversation with Todd Toler as he takes on a new role at Ithaka S+R about the future of scholarship in the AI world. Such exciting opportunities are ahead! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/10/b...

Universities aren't great at compromising when they form a consortia to do tech things, so, instead, they spend lots of money on commercial tools with limitations they wouldn't accept in a consortia arrangement?

I didn't realize until today that a previously preprinted manuscript wasn't eligible for posting on verixiv. One of the authorship checks: "confirms authors have not submitted the preprint elsewhere" (verixiv.org/for-authors/...)

My essay “New Antiquities” & @laurenfklein.bsky.social’s “Why Literary Studies Must Embrace Computing” don’t EXIST yet are cited in this “peer reviewed” essay on AI and DH . Guess we didn’t lead the “cultural turn” in DH either! 🤬https://knowledgeableresearch.com/index.php/1/article/download/697/614

Scaling up! "The acquisition deepens Wiley’s proprietary content position for use in AI and data analytics, at a moment when demand for trusted peer-reviewed research content is accelerating rapidly as corporations build out AI models and applications."

"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.