I spy with my little eye 🔍 @heroicendeavour.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social on the front row Nominated last year for campaigning to push for change with eBook access for academic libraries, advocating for legislative change 💪 #ebookSOS #CommunityChampion

Before people get steamy, this is a ‘page issues’ warning template. As in, ‘someone included AI content in this article, and we recognise that is a Bad Thing, so proceed with caution’. It’s not @wikipedia.org condoning AI-generated content, it’s the *opposite*.

Check out our stories on 8 libraries that have unbundled from a journal package or cancelled a Big Deal altogether. The profiles describe the context of the decision, preparation, how continuing access to materials was secured, campus response, next steps & advice. sparcopen.org/our-work/big...

📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books Get your ticket now! 🎟️ 🗓️ 26–27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University | London and online 🔗 buff.ly/sv3I13M #CopimConference

The Cat Distribution Network is trying its best, but is a little off-target…

Also (spoiler alert) - 'input from more than 175 librarians and 60 publishers', i.e. 'we sent them a survey' (probably), is not community-driven. Who is asking whom? There's your answer.

I fail to see how this differs from anything we've seen over the years - it's still bundling, you still can't curate your own collection or buy individual titles, you're still paying for a bunch of books you don't want in order to get access to the ones you do... event.on24.com/wcc/r/511626...

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

lol she got his ass and he knows it

So ridiculously late to the party, but I just finished watching Ted Lasso and am currently crying my eyes out.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

The man knows whereof he speaks… #ebookSOS

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

It's the last day of the 2025 Charleston Conference! You can still catch @openbookcollective.bsky.social to discuss a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books 📚 Full programme 👉https://buff.ly/rFZnor3 #chsconf2025

My ADHD diagnosis and treatment has been genuinely life-changing, so this is so sad and concerning to see. There are so many people out there struggling, and we're failing to catch-up on years of under-diagnosis, particularly for adult women.

Sobering reading looking the @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy's 2025 Global 'Bit List' of Digital Materials - people talk so casually about how 'the internet is forever' and it's not even *close* to being true! Digital content is exponentially more ephemeral and vulnerable than printed content.

🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳 The project is titled: ‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.

Lovely to see our own @heroicendeavour.bsky.social's work discussed in this piece from @glynmoody.bsky.social - OA isn’t just about free PDFs, it's about reclaiming the systems of knowledge from commercial lock-in & strengthening the community-led infrastructures that make genuine openness possible.

Breaking digital chains: @glynmoody.bsky.social explores how #S2O & #ArchiveOfOurOwn promote #OpenAccess. But ultimately, we must reinvent scholarly publishing to achieve universal & unconstrained access to knowledge, as @heroicendeavour.bsky.social advocates. walledculture.org/fans-of-open...

Interesting session this morning on international experiences & strategies for supporting diamond OA - talks from Ireland, Nigeria & Australia on communities of practice & collaborative projects as ways to tackle funding issues, discoverability, institutional support, and advocacy. #OpenAccess

America's Mayor is an American Muslim Immigrant. That's it. That's the post. Carry on.

Don’t mind me, just screaming at a pitch only dogs can hear…

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

#FinishedReading: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean by Miranda Kaufmann

Hot off the press from @chashub.bsky.social 🗞️❤️‍🔥 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝 👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/... #chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs

Join the @openbookcollective.bsky.social at @chashub.bsky.social 📚 They're setting up their booth (no 29) ready for the Vendor Showcase tomorrow (4 Nov) 🛠️ See who else is joining them 👉 buff.ly/lQc5k3w #chsconf2025

Even if I wasn't a huge supporter, I'd reblog just for the excellent choice of gif here!

PKP released the Publication Facts Label for OJS 3.3–3.5, a transparency tool to strengthen journal integrity and reader trust. Built as a plugin, it helps journals demonstrate their quality and accountability. Learn more: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/31/p... #OpenAccess #OJS #MediaLiteracy #ScholarlyComms

Forking over wads of cash to a giant candy corportation in order to give it away to whoever comes knocking is Big Open Access Energy 😝

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Anyone got recommendations for good places to buy good quality casual men's shirts? Preferably with fun, unusual or offbeat prints! My partner has tasked me with buying a shirt 'I would like to see him in' for Christmas, but I'm not sure he'd wear the kind of shirts that would really be my taste! 😄

In my defence, I am blonde and I have ADHD...

Plugging your laptop in first thing in the morning is all well and good, but it also helps if you turn it on at the wall... 🤦‍♀️

A thought I never expected to have: House of Windsor currently beating the US government on transparency and accountability.

“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.” Oh, the King thinks he’s guilty as fucking sin, then…

About to deliver my first public talk in my new role, for a Public Policy Exchange webinar. I’ll be talking about how #OpenAccess can extend the civic mission of public libraries, through shared, open knowledge.

👀ICYMI: "Wikibooks’s readership is considerable and genuinely international – 469 million page views worldwide in the last year alone, from more than 11 million devices." @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why academics should take another look at Wikibooks #AcWri #OABooks #ScholComms

🚨 Join the @openbookcollective.bsky.social next week at @chashub.bsky.social Vendor Showcase on Tues. 4 Nov. You'll find them at booth no 29 - they'd love to chat about #OpenAccess books and equitable #Publishing List of exhibitors 👉 buff.ly/Ybquein #chsconf2025 1/3

Working link, because I am a numpty... 🤦 katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Shout-out to metadata librarians and 'tag wranglers' everywhere 💪

My latest article, out now in Katina Magazine: 'How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing' Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from @archiveofourown.org instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought... Read here → katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

We will be closing our representation statistics survey at some point in the next month, and we have already heard from more than 1000 neurodivergent librarians! #librarians #neurodiversity lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

NEW WEBINAR: “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access” hosted by Copim, @sparc-eu.bsky.social and @scossfunding.bsky.social 📆 Tue 11 Nov ⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT/4pm-5.15pm CET 🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8 #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks

I think it may be a chocolate cake for breakfast kind of day.

My latest piece, on open access and scholarly publishing - revealing my inner fangirl to the world in the process (you are not shocked, I know) 📚 #AcademicSky

#FinishedReading: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking by Alice Vernon

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Interesting. A library decides they can’t renew a database because their users would immediately violate the license terms by using the university’s Microsoft products that have force fed copilot into everything. Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory