Peter Barr retweeted
And yet how often do publishers use ‘but think of the authors!’ as an excuse for the extortionate pricing, restrictive licensing and opposition to approaches like CDL that we see with academic texts. And then they do stuff like this. 🙄 #ebookSOS
Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...
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Interesting opinion piece in The Guardian
"The commercial stranglehold on academic publishing is doing considerable damage to our intellectual and scientific culture"
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[University of California] President Drake and Provost Newman affirm the university’s commitment to protect author, researcher and reader rights
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🚨 New Scholastica blog alert: How to Start An Open Access Journal [2024 Small Publishers Primer] bit.ly/2Pt8DSK
Great to see a book edited by a Sheffield academic @renee_timmers, published OA by a publisher supported by @UniSheffieldLib's Open Scholarship Fund (designed to aid the transformation of academic publishing)
📢New Publication Alert!
🎶'#Psychological Perspectives on #Musical Experiences and Skills' ed. by Blanka Bogunović, Renee Timmers, & Sanela Nikolić is out now!
Dive into cutting-edge research on the psychology of music & its cultural contexts.
Access: doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0389
ALT Cover of 'Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills' on a 3D image of a tablet, a phone, and a book.
Full list of the 30+ initiatives we now support available here:
sheffield.ac.uk/library/libr…
If the current cost of OA, is the true cost of OA, then I might agree with this conclusion. I suspect it isn't and the 'chiefs' are tilting at the wrong windmill
Time to bin all REF open access rules, say Oxford research chiefs timeshighereducation.com/new… via @timeshighered
Well worth reading this...
The issue to me is whether non-commercial diamond can scale to take a much larger % of REF books (and whether policy allows investment at infrastructure not output level). Otherwise BPC, commercial led will have all the problems of journals
Hot off the press 🔥
Read our initial reflections on the @ref2029 #OpenAccess policy for longform outputs 📚
copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-r…
But now we need you 🫵Share your comments and feedback via the blog ahead of the consultation deadline on 17 June ⏰
#REF2029
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Direct to Open (D2O) is a collective action model built to support the #OpenAccess publication of scholarly books where neither authors nor readers have to pay. D20 has exceeded expectations in its first three years, and we’re thrilled to share the impact! bit.ly/3yjy2ch
ALT Infographic showing milestones: 'OA books' linked to '354 libraries' and '483,000 downloads,' indicating a relationship over 3 years, with a concluding message 'Thank you' in large letters.
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Today, we're excited to launch Infra Finder - a tool to help you navigate the landscape of #infrastructure services + standards enabling #OpenResearch & scholarship 🚀
Who is Infra Finder designed for, and what makes it special? Read on to find out!
investinopen.org/blog/infra-…
ALT Text: Announcing Infra Finder: Discover open infrastructure services and standards enabling open research and scholarship. The text is accompanied by a compass icon on the right.
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Barr: we want values over revenue; a move away from publishers taking our content and selling it back to us, and towards a value-adding service.
#Redux2024
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Huge thanks to @SheffieldUni Library, who have renewed their membership to our Institutional Partner Programme.
Their investment helps make @ProgHist sustainable.
UK libraries can subscribe directly @Jisc: tinyurl.com/jisc-subs
#DiamondOpenAccess #DigitalHumanities
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The recording of our #OAweek23 session on 'Supporting the transformation of academic publishing: The Library Open Scholarship Fund' is now available:
doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.2…
Hello?
If anyone is still using twitter, can I point to the below event where we will be speaking about our support for 'free-range' OA via @UniSheffieldLib's Open Scholarship fund. Free event, open to all
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We're thrilled to announce that the University of Sheffield Library @sheffielduni has joined the Open Book Collective as our newest supporting library member! Thank you for your commitment to an equitable and sustainable future for #OpenAccessBooks
openbookcollective.pubpub.or…
Also, @UniSheffieldLib are supporters of this initiative
culanth.org/about/about-the-…
We are very proud to see the effect that @UniSheffieldLib support is having ...
(this is one of over 30 initiatives that our Open Scholarship Fund supports)
Thanks to the support of 322 libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), we're publishing our complete list of 2023 scholarly monographs and edited collections #openaccess on the MITP Direct platform.
Learn more and browse all the titles here: mitpress.mit.edu/mit-presss-…
We are recruiting to our team. The job is about the admin, analysis and promotion of eresources but we're interested in people who can make this job their own
jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdy…