I'm in Antwerp, which means "throwing hands", and celebrates the downfall of the giant Antigoon, so safe to say it is the patron city of BlueSky.

I didn't get to say goodbye and thank you to @viroviacum.bsky.social , but I think we can all agree Leuven itself was the highlight of #OASPA2025!

Seriously, how many academic libraries have remodeled themselves to be hostile to print? How many staffing shortages have made print processing slower and more difficult? I remain unconvinced print is actually in low demand across academic libraries. What I think is that admin doesn't value it.

Re: print usage - I think it really depends how easy we make getting print. Universities in Ontario created a shared catalogue and a very easy method to request print from anywhere else in the province since then we've seen our print usage go up... and we are not the only ones seeing this trend.

An excellent article on the harms of residential school denialism. theconversation.com/confronting-...

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

Anne Houston reminds us at #OASPA2025 how hard it is for librarians to get usage data out of commercial academic publishers. We need data & stories about where & how open research is being read & engaged with.

Anne Houston: checking out physical books at Swarthmore College Library has dropped to just a quarter of what it used to be 15 years ago. We’re close to seeing the disappearance of physical print books in academic publishing altogether #OASPA2025

@dannykay68.bsky.social is NOT endorsing Gold OA, however 🏅🏅🏅

STUDY presented by Allison Langham-Putrow & Amy Riegelman (University of Minnesota Libraries) - After 10 years of Transformative Agreements (which they are not) we are still wanting a mechanism to measure their effectiveness The paper is here - conservancy.umn.edu/items/1557f1... #OASPA2025

Next up: "Open Access: of what, for what, and why?" moderated by Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan Press), with Antia Wiersma (Royal Netherlands Historical Society), John Wilkin (Lyrasis), Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), and Sam Moore (Radical Open Access).

Maybe you can't read Ray Carver at work, but you CAN talk about AI, and we've got the webinar series you've been waiting for. Join @hypervisible.blacksky.app, Christa Albrecht-Crane, and Library Futures this Thursday 9/25 for the first installment! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

will never understand how Canadians became known for saying “eh” when we should be known for our ability to make the phase “okay buddy” mean everything from “of course I will give my life for yours” to “I am the drunkest man alive and I am going to fight you in this parking lot”

Lol we made a discovery layer that lies to you, it's a learning experience "the team has worked hard to minimize such results, but they can and will surface. Importantly, these moments are opportunities to learn more about both the technology and user expectations."

One answer from the @openbookcollective.bsky.social is their Collective Development Fund: an optional 5% fee paid by the publishers & services in the collective. This creates a pot of money disbursed via grant payments to publishers & service providers for projects that build OA publishing capacity.

Kamran Naim with a fun intro to the panel "Scaling inclusive open access models" - a panel of folks who DO things! #OASPA2025

Sob, *I* want to hear about Secondary Publishing Rights! Especially since I think there is growing consensus that an immediate SPR does *not* violate the three step test. #OASPA2025

And now for a panel on multiplicities... Of policies. #OASPA2025

One of Janne Pölönen's presentations on the centrality of diamond journals in multilingualism in scholarly publishing, referred to in a question: zenodo.org/records/1109... #OASPA2025

Counterpoint - maybe instead of a two tier system of publishing, we actually are working towards a dual power system... #OASPA2025

Enabling 100% #OA in times of uncertainty: who has the power and responsibility? Hannah Hope @wellcometrust.bsky.social Uncertainty is nothing new, difference is that volatility is now happening to the dominant #ScholComms system What opportunities does this present? #OASPA2025 👉 wellcome.org

SHIFT: Wellcome 2021 OA policy had unexpected result- policy was perpetuating existing inequality in research ecosystem. So they added preprints to versions of articles accepted, create space for institutional rights retention, redirect funds from TAs towards wider ecosystem. Hannah Hope #OASPA2025

I couldn't agree more. This is the top leadership role at **humble brag** one of the most impactful organizations in #scholcomm. Reach out if you have questions! (cc #OASPA2025)

Hannah Hope from Wellcome, and the forever reminder that in many parts of the world, OA isn't something that happens "after" (for a fee), but is the starting point of publishing. #OASPA2025 - paraphrasing, but the convos about a small global minority (US/UK/EU publishing) sucks up all the oxygen.

#OASPA2025. Examples of more granular corrections (at the study, not just article level), more granular authorship and credit system for accountability, more sharing of protocols, refereed preprints, vaporizing peer review - CoARA working group to have a peer review research metric

Waking up with #OASPA2025 panel: Depressurising publishing – what can we do about researcher incentives and integrity breakdowns on the journey to 100% OA?

So... what time zone is Tuesday's rapture supposed to happen in? Asking from UTC+2, where I have approximately 20 minutes to go.

Ok, I admittedly skived off #OASPA2025 early today, but I'm pretty sure according to @viroviacum.bsky.social it's because I am now becoming a genius of knowledge.

Well that’s the first time I’ve heard a big 5 commercial publisher describe APCs as “accessible.” Remarkable doublethink going on here.

Everyone that uses the term Transformative Agreement should put out a list of all the journals that stopped charging subscriptions. It's disingenuous. It's just double dipping #OASPA2025

One Nation, One Subscription project in India is backed up by a robust tracking and monitoring system (OA Monitor) that looks at APC spend, OA output, classifies types of OA, provides real time statistics for analytics, accessible to researchers as well as policy makers and funders. #OASPA2025

@viroviacum.bsky.social at #OASPA2025

My poor copyright broken brain is always thinking about Secondary Publishing Rights when discussions about who owns our knowledge come up. I don't think the way they are implemented currently fully breaks the monopoly of copyright transfer through inherently making it non exclusive ...

Just a note for folks at #OASPA2025 - a downside of the 600 year old host is that there aren't any all-gender washrooms here yet. I believe someone has kindly volunteered a room with an ensuite that you can get the key for from the ever helpful reception desk.

Love the tentative "these are things we think *most* of us can agree on" opening to #OASPA25;- equitable, diverse, access - but maybe we don't quite all agree on the *how*...

Mini Europe, already adorably kitsch, dealt with Brexit with good humour - customs signs and yellow painted boundaries around Big Ben 😅

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. @caut.bsky.social have started a petition to PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Sign here: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

A union that represents university professors published a guide tailored to help its members navigate social media during the “current climate.” The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted. 🔗 www.404media.co/union-warns-...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

When you were partying I studied Bataille While you were having pre-marital sex, I read the accursed shade And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to talk to me about abundance?

Uh, did anyone else know about Chrome's AI-powered "Homework help" thing? This sucks and I really don't see this as anything other than cheating. It shows up in the URL bar. If you click on it, it allows you to select a quiz or question and then it will generate answers for you. 📚

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Yes: "Policymakers tend to see publishers as mere service providers who can be given money in exchange for open access. The reality is that good publishing is not a transaction but a community effort. Publishing cannot stand outside the communities that produce the research; it is part of research."

Since Dale Mountain’s resignation as chief financial officer, at least nine other Athabasca executives have either quit the university or resigned from management to rejoin the AU faculty as professors. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abed #abpoli

It's a sad day to hear that Stylus, Winnipeg's awesome indie music magazine, is likely to fold this year. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Ask about their library and its librarian.

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

While I've waffled a bit about positionality statements on articles, one strong use case would be when someone has misrepresented their identity it gives a tangible thing to point to and correct in the scholarly record (without, say, a full retraction, when the work is good/ collaborative).

I always forget how amazing it is to see the Library already full in the first week of classes. 🥹