It just keeps getting better! It’s been such fun to collab with @drbeth.bsky.social from the Crick and @rosiehigman.bsky.social and Lucy from LSE, not long until the Festival kicks off and I can’t wait! Check out the program and get involved! :)

@lsepress.bsky.social re the query I forwarded to Philippa the other week

Big HE library sector job vacancy as Deputy Director at SCONUL (and big shoes to fill, congrats on the new gig Lisa) www.sconul.ac.uk/media/uhpjvf... up to £65k, deadline 6 May #HEJobs #Job #Vacancy #Libraries

Great that the book is coming out soon with @lsepress.bsky.social. With my friend and colleague from University of Bristol, Prof Chuks Okereke, we contributed the chapter on tackling climate change in low and middle income countries.

It's that time of year again when I remind all my UK academic colleagues to register with @alcs.co.uk so you get paid when your work is used under licenses like the CLA license, PLR etc. It might be more than you think & it's money you're owed for your work being used! www.alcs.co.uk/how-it-works/

In How Africa Eats, award-winning author David Luke and a team of researchers explore the intersection between trade, food security agriculture policies, and climate risks. Publishing #OpenAccess Spring 2025. Free to read and download. 🔗 doi.org/10.31389/lse... @africaatlse.bsky.social

Unpopular opinion: zoom is awful. Every time I try to join a zoom call it takes 5 minutes longer than it should to load

💥New: Riccardo Crescenzi argues a more co-ordinated approach to Big Science across the UK and EU, could produce significant social and economic benefits, as well as catalysing innovation and increased competitiveness across the bloc. #Innovation #BigScience #SciencePolicy @lseevents.bsky.social

**Exciting news klaxon** LSE Open Research Community is now up and running. "Through thoughtful debates, and continuous learning, we're fostering a culture where open, transparent and collaborative research can thrive." www.linkedin.com/company/lse-...

A publishing ecosystem that brings communities of scholars, librarians & OA publishers together to participate in knowledge production, publication, & dissemination is viable. Research cultures would benefit from being more collaborative than competitive. Institutions can help to bridge the gap(s).

Anyone with a Netflix subscription can see why Proquest’s new model will be unacceptable to libraries & users. Disappearing titles, content you don’t actually want, annual fee increases & if you can’t pay you lose everything. Libraries have purchasing power & should collectively reject this model.

💥New: As Proquest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of big deals for ebooks? 🧑‍💻Kevin O'Donovan (@lselibrary.bsky.social) #AcademicSky #ScholComm #Libraries

Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w... #medlibs

Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

So valuable to hear these authors sharing in their own words why they recommend open access publishing

⭕ Decentralised Governance, ed. Jean-Paul Faguet and Sarmistha Pal, is free to read and download here: doi.org/10.31389/lse... #Decentralisation #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #Development #Governance #Democracy @lseid.bsky.social

"Highly informative to students and scholars of political economy, public policy, and public administration, even if they are not scholars of decentralization" Decentralised Governance reviewed by @ricarthuguet.bsky.social in @pareview.bsky.social journal ✍ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Reaching one million usages also confirms our view that there is a worldwide demand for rigorous academic content presented in an accessible way and reaffirms the commitment of LSE Press to broadening the reach of scholarly work.” - Professor Dame Sarah Worthington ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/alumni-frien...

🏁 Our books and journals have passed the million mark! Huge thanks to all of our authors, contributors, editors, and readers for helping us reach this milestone. Read more here: www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

Really interesting, and in another lovely connection our Suffrage Interviews Wikidata project has a SPARQL query which shows 2 interviewees, Kathleen Halpin and Mary Smieton, mention Caroline Haslett! archives.lse.ac.uk/records/8SUF... archives.lse.ac.uk/records/8SUF...

I saw the title here and thought, I hope they mention what we hold at @lselibrary.bsky.social , and they did! Very interesting project for somebody

We are in a war on knowledge, a war on facts, and a war on truth. The atrocious sacking of the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (which she announced on her LinkedIn account last night) heralds a new era of burning of the books. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

@lizstokoe.bsky.social @rosiehigman.bsky.social relevant to our conversation the other day

#LSE #OpenResearch Working Group's 1st 2025 event "Publishing Beyond Academia" with panel @cwaiting.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com, @jonsutton.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social, @michaeltaster.bsky.social @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, & me (having published with all three) - 🎥 to follow #SciComm

In addition to being an unnecessary capitulation to a poorly understood threat, it's against the ethics of everything we do as publishers and as researchers. To do this w/o your knowledge and consent is...staggering. How many members will #ASM lose?

What the what now????? Messing up the scholarly record? without even notifying the authors that they've changed their work???????

Lewis Baston writes on the ‘Comment is Free’ substack “The reader who is interested in an up-to-date tour of the Australian constitutional and political system is urged to consult Australia’s Evolving Democracy published by the Democratic Audit team in 2024.” samf.substack.com/p/can-the-de...

If you are in Canberra on Wednesday 5 Feb please come to the national launch for our book with star speakers at Parliament House. All welcome. And you can join online from anywhere else in Australia.

Another fascinating read in the latest Clarke & Esposito brief, we really do seem to be on different planets. This time the bit about read and green policies made me raise an eyebrow, I don't see many libraries paying for rights that never should have been taken from authors in the first place

Publishing folks - how is the sector reacting to this? Can journals be moved abroad (aren’t they already international)? insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n... #OpenAccess #AcademicSky

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Preprints that are openly licensed eg CC-BY or CC0, are openly licensed. Entities can challenge whether licensing was appropriate, but we will not just remove properly licensed content. COS will follow the law, and is willing to participate in legal challenges when the law and our mission conflict.

It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors. "Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."

Delighted that registrations are now open for this welcoming, grassroots event for people who are curious about a career in #libraries or #archives. Weds 19th March 2025, in person, University of Salford. Visit 👉 bit.ly/curious-about

This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com. Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

It’s now live! I’m so excited about this post – I’m recruiting to the new role of Head of Student Library Experience at @lselibrary.bsky.social. Interested? jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Tagging @mishdalton.bsky.social

Fascinating (long) thread - inside a learned society publisher. Must-read for any librarian who's had dealings with AAAS as a publisher over the years. Shows the tension between not-for-profit and corporate cultures, and the constant pressure to earn revenue.

I was asked to write an Op Ed piece by @resprofnews.bsky.social on universities cancelling journal Big Deals: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v... I was keen to stress that at least some of any savings must be used to support new, fairer models

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Excellent, helpful, thought-provoking yet concise book from @drbeth.bsky.social on EDI in libraries. I was about to apologies for posting here as well as LinkedIn, but no, it deserves the reach across multiple platforms. Specific thoughts to follow....

Yep. We have been out of contract with Elsevier at MIT for 4.5 years now, at substantial savings to the Institute. Happy to share our experience with any library interested in following suit.

Well look at that! There really are a lot more people here now than there were last time I popped in...

I'm really looking forward to working with cohort 7 of LIBER Emerging Leaders

We're delighted to announce Philippa Grand has been appointed head of publishing, as reported in The Bookseller. 🎈 “Philippa brings a wealth of expertise, and we can’t wait to see what she achieves in this new leadership position.” @niamhtumelty.bsky.social ✍️ www.thebookseller.com/news/philipp...

A pleasure to write for the LSE Impact Blog about the ongoing cOAlition S consultation blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

We have opened the Call for Papers for the next RLUK Conference. The call is open to all worldwide, not just RLUK members, and to encouarge the widest engagement we are staying in a virtual environment: rlukconference.com

Would you like to join the Sonrai Irish Data Stewards Network? We have a new mailing list. Head to listserv.heanet.ie and subscribe to Irish IRISHDATASTEWARDS datastewards.ie

🧵 1/? A thread with resources on EDI and Library work(ers), structures and experiences (as opposed to EDI in Library practice; e.g. teaching, reading lists, student experiences etc.) Note: This thread is incomplete by nature: feel free to share and add resources! (Apologies for the Twt crossspost!)