Thank you Eleanor Colla for finding this - Rick Anderson writes 'Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now?' #academiclibraries #priorities #open #scholarlycommunications | doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

Latest OASPA data shows dramatic growth in OA articles from past decades is plateauing - OASPA https://www.oaspa.org/news/latest-oaspa-data-shows-dramatic-growth-in-oa-articles-from-past-decades-is-plateauing/

Building a Sustainable Commons: Why community governance is the bedrock of Open Scholarly Infrastructure - OpenAIRE Blog https://www.openaire.eu/community/blogs/sustainability-holy-grail-building-a-sustainable-commons

theconversation.com/the-5-stages... #academicpublishing #enshittification @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social and Martina Linnenluecke, Jan 6 2026

*tiptoing quietly back into my work socials* shhh

OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals. Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet? 📚 www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...

I am taking 5 months of uninterrupted long service leave at full pay Aug-Dec this year! Why have I got such an appalling accrual, I hear you ask? Well indeed, and therein lies the irony of librarian burnout. #VocationalAwe #IdentityAsProfession #WorkLifeBalance #ReframeAndReset

The N8 Research Partnership has today released a landmark statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarly research is published

With open access conferences happening on the other side of the globe, we thought we'd celebrate OA in the lands down under with a link to the OA Toolkit for Aotearoa NZ Researchers. While only a basic tool, it's completely customisable for individual institutions oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

The world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality Pls share our new paper & Call to Action

Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around? The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more. We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.

I had the pleasure of giving a keynote for the ANZREG conference earlier this week titled 'Beyond provocation: Reimagining systems through care, critique, and community.' 🔗 Talk and slides: www.emiliabell.com/2025/06/13/b...

I'm engaging less with my work/professional social media these days. It's a bit overwhelming out there, and I'm pulling in my antennae while I seek an acceptable balance for work/life

As we say on the internet, "some personal news." After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor. In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career. Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/

Journal Article: “Defining quality in peer review reports: a scoping review” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/ar... ? Summarization feature Publishers are making libraries sign terms that say you can't upload their content into public ai clouds so yes technically this would be violation if user puts in full text and it gets Summarized

A Librarian’s Guide to AI in Academic Search Tools katinamagazine.org/content/arti... - I was asked to write this rather than bloat out a review article I was doing for Katina. I struggled a lot with this, trying to keep it concise, vs technically accurate while handicaped by my limited knowledge

CREEPY: Academia.edu has generated an AI podcast for my paper: Kingsley, D.A. and Kennan, M.A. (2015) “Open access: the whipping boy for problems in scholarly publication”, aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/i... It is *kinda* OK, but the asides are slightly off putting (an emphasise the wrong points)

I would love to see this kind of graph for the academic publishing sector

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. Share, boost, join and show them love. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building. Join the stream and show your support!

WOW - how do these people lie straight in bed at night? IEEE is charging a 'Repository License Fee' (or should that be 'FEEE'?) "The RLF price is $1,275 for periodical articles and $400 for conference articles and is applicable only to AMs and not to VORs." bibliotheek.ehb.be:2580/repository-l...

This needs repeating indefinitely

Several years after the launch of C4DISC, in a challenging political climate, we are encouraged to see reaffirmations of commitment to our Joint Statement of Principles by some of our members. We invite all members and partners to share their statements of commitment: c4disc.org/reaffirmatio...

Worth a share: a handout on neurodiversity-affirming principles and practices for #libraries, openresearch.okstate.edu/entities/pub... #Neurodivergent #Neurodiverse #Librarian #Library

I read this autoethnographic article about ADHD and librarianship (which resonates enormously, btw), but it got me thinking - how do you anonymise an article like this for blind peer-review? I mean, your identity and personal experiences are sort of the point and librarianship is a small world... 📚

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

‘Research managers are needed to address societal challenges’. Inorms 2025: Tackling climate change and digitisation requires change in research culture, #INORMS2025 event hears. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

📚 Like @missemilielib.bsky.social, I can miss law librarianship. The knowledge that you've provided an excellent service and contributed substantially to a brief or argument is very satisfying. And of course, the last-minute-just-before-court requests can result in quite the adrenalin spike. 😆

dear lord, what is happening to my brain I have had to switch ON Outlook's email spelling and grammar check, that's how bad my brain is right now shocking I know

📣Share your feedback on ARDC Community Data Lab draft project plans! The HASS & Indigenous research community is invited to share their feedback and help shape the ARDC Community Data Lab 🔗 bit.ly/cdl-plans w/ @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #HASS #research #data #GLAM

IMLS! www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Boosting this, thankyou to my library networks for bringing to my attention palestinianfilmfestival.com.au/session/a-fi... Documents the events and actions since the 1982 erasure of Palestinian material culture

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

#MayDay www.nma.gov.au/defining-mom... My most formative baby librarian years were when I worked under Ruth Bird at UniMelb's Law Library (when it was still in the old Law Quadrangle). I can't remember if there is a plaque honouring the 888 worker's rights victory on campus, but there should be

American University #librarians take up the mantle with government data rescue project www.theeagleonline.com/article/2025... #libraries @datarescueproject.org

I wish I could summon the spoons, an AuADHD diagnosis, all the apparatus including medication to support me, then apply to do a PhD - topic: scholarly communications+research assessment reform

CWTS | Leiden University is hiring a PhD candidate to research paper mills and manipulation in publishing, supervised by RoRI researchers. Apply here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Do you have a favorite unusual collection in special collections and/or archives? I want to expand my list of examples for class. Unexpected formats are particularly interesting.

Delight in Steel’s consummate awe at student work and the power of open pedagogy in the new series “OER Under the Hood” from Pressbooks & OEGlobal, convened by @cogdog.bsky.social Poignant excerpts from Terry and Amanda (plus a few of my own musings) here: tinyurl.com/mpjba6ku #EduSky #OER #OEP

Tracking the Use of Open Educational Resources Sounds Simple. It Isn’t. katinamagazine.org/content/arti... very nice

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... "But on this front, at least, the Trump Administration is facing well-organized resistance. It comes from a loose coalition of archivists and librarians who are assembling information arks to ride out the chaos."

An incredible lost medieval manuscript with rare stories from the Merlin and King Arthur legend discovered and now digitised. (Image below from Cambridge University Library) www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merl...

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

We just learned that Washington State Library’s $3.9M annual award from the Feds has been cancelled. That’s rural libraries, rural librarians and internet access, databases for research and ebooks through Libby. DOGE needs to end.

Data mining leads directly to enshittification, no matter what direction you're looking from