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.

Bots keep overwhelming library servers. Is this not happening to publisher servers, too? Or, are they just not writing about it? journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489

Grateful for the invitation to speak "in" Durban, South Africa this morning - exploring business models for open access publishing. Even at 5 am, I'm pretty excited to share the taxonomy I've developed!

And, this morning we learn how much of the work I do at the university relies on AWS...

The attack on Knowledge Commons (@kcommons.bsky.social) seems to have ceased, for now, and I have re-enabled access to user profiles. We will do a full postmortem on Monday and continue our efforts to thwart this. It's difficult when your attacker has billions of $s of computing power.

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

They are the best evidence that professors don't indoctrinate.

IMLS’s new team decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the Nat'l Leadership Grants for Libraries(in 2025) is going to 1 recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Co. So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.

This continues to be an extremely rewarding project to work on. Looking forward to the discussions it provokes, especially in person at #IDW2025 and #eResAU2025!

“But she doesn’t tell us what to DO about it 😭😭😭!” Do something. Do something with other people. Do it again.

Funders & Institutions: Join the Fight Against Paper Mills United2Act, an international multi-stakeholder project aimed at tackling paper mills (which I co-chair w Nandita Quaderi), is seeking to boost funder and institutional participation.

“At the end of the day, us librarians just want to help people, so we're just trying to find the best ways to do that right now with the resources we have.” www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

“At the end of the day, us librarians just want to help people, so we're just trying to find the best ways to do that right now with the resources we have.” www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

This just activated every research librarian everywhere. Microfiche, microfilm, and microcards ... each needing a different reader. Fun times! Also reminded of when the young librarian translating my talk into Chinese stopped me and said, "I don't know that word." Reader, the word was CD-ROM.

"Openness and sharing are both core values in libraries; however, there are many ways in which academic libraries are complicit in information capitalism despite resistance efforts." joi-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/joi/article/...

I am really unsure about this. What we call things does matter and open access has different modalities that work differently in different cases. If we don't correct misconceptions, with new terminology, then people will never learn.

Any NYC library workers on here potentially available to join a panel organized by @nycplan.org happening tomorrow??? We'd need you from 1:30 to 3 pm. Holler at me if this is you or someone you know.

It is one of my greatest joys to supervise independent studies in LIS at UIUC. Can't wait to have my current student publish findings. #bibliometrics #publishers #interfaces #UX

"Open and commercial don't have to be opposites." Read our Open Science FAIR panel recap: investinopen.org/blog/finding... #OpenInfrastructure #OpenScience

It was an absolute pleasure to speak with Jessica Miles for The Informed Frontier podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Republicans threaten to shut down the government all the time—& they actually do it more often than anyone wants—over far more petty shit—& they pay no electoral price at all So even if you can’t be convinced to have principals & stick to them—at least know it won’t impact you getting reelected

I honestly thought they were going to create diamond OA journals to provide legitimacy. No need apparently. Preprint servers will do.

Personally, I wonder if people don't understand because they are imagining it's a problem of the past 4-5 years. The roots date back 10-15 years, but you either paid attention then or you need to do a lot of historical background reading.

*Goes to grad school in psychology simply so I can publish one paper explaining that the entire state of MN has rejection sensitivity*

Yep, lots of things missing from preprint servers.

Absolutely! The preprint mandate only applies if you publish an article! HHMI's policy even more since one is obligated to post peer review-based rev as preprint as well ... which you only get by publishing in a journal. The funders are just externalizing the cost of publishing to libraries.

I think it's possible that nothing except transformative agreements is driving the shift to OA publishing more than preprint mandates. #EqualAndOppositeReaction

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history. "The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

I think it's possible that nothing except transformative agreements is driving the shift to OA publishing more than preprint mandates. #EqualAndOppositeReaction

Wellcome, after OA Policy - surprised at uneven take up of TAs, surprised at speed of publishers to identify Wellcome funded authors, surprised at speed of appeals to contract law. Realized that policy was having unintended/ unwanted effects. #OASPA2025

NIH policy had 5% compliance when it was voluntary, 50-70% compliance when it was mandatory, and got to 90% when funds were held back until compliance was fulfilled. #OASPA2025

Howard Stern says he feels for Disney, but he’s canceling Disney+. “I’m trying to say with my pocketbook that I do not support what they’re doing with Jimmy.” x.com/sternshow/st...