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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 18h

Register for the launch of the Open Heritage Statement on Zoom on 14 October! 🎈

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 21h

You know I love your e-lerts! Thanks again to the CARL team for coordinating / collating / synthesizing these very helpful updates!!

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 21h

HUGE congrats to all involved in the Partnership for Open Access (POA), including @erudit.org! The POA was recently included in UNESCO’s Open & Inclusive Science Hub—a directory of initiatives aiming to make access to research & scholarly publishing more equitable.
apropos.erudit.org/recognition-...

POA Recognized by UNESCO

The Partnership for Open Access (POA) was recently included in UNESCO’s Open and Inclusive Science Hub, a directory of ambitious initiatives aiming to make access to research and scientific publicatio...

apropos.erudit.org

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Anthropic study suggests “poison” training attacks don’t scale with model size.

arstechnica.com

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Érudit @erudit.org · 2d

→ Publiez d'abord, financez ensuite 💎
Dans son infolettre, @brynwj.bsky.social retrace l’histoire de Revue canadienne de bioéthique et aborde les possibilités et défis de gérer une revue savante bilingue en libre accès diamant.
📌 brynstorming.substack.com/p/oa-journal
@santepublique-udem.bsky.social

Publish First, Finance Later / Publiez d'abord, financez ensuite

Building an open access journal on a shoestring budget / Créer une revue en libre accès avec un budget très limité

brynstorming.substack.com

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Érudit @erudit.org · 2d

→ Publish First, Finance Later 💎
In his newsletter, @brynwj.bsky.social traces the history of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics and highlights the opportunities and challenges of managing a bilingual scholarly journal in #DiamondOA.
📌 brynstorming.substack.com/p/oa-journal

Publish First, Finance Later / Publiez d'abord, financez ensuite

Building an open access journal on a shoestring budget / Créer une revue en libre accès avec un budget très limité

brynstorming.substack.com

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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 2d

The 1st Canadian Conference on #OpenScience and #OpenScholarship is happening October 9 -10, 2025!

PKP, @erudit.org, and #CoalitionPublica are pleased to be partner contributors to this event.

Livestreaming will be on!

Details: oscanada.github.io/en/

#OSCanada #CanadaSky #AcademicChatter

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 2d

Lastly, another signal boost for:
Canadian Repositories Community of Practice October Call – Repositories in the Age of AI: The Attack of the Bots
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 1pm-2pm ET

www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...

Canadian Repositories Community of Practice October Call - Repositories in the Age of AI: The Attack of the Bots - Canadian Association of Research Libraries

Date: October 30, 2025 Time: 1pm-2pm ET Registration AI bots are aggressively harvesting content from the internet. Not so well known is the especially devastating effects this scraping has had on lib...

www.carl-abrc.ca

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 2d

Lisez-le en français! << Les robots IA sont-ils en train de remodeler le libre accès ? >>

ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/les-robots-i...

Les robots IA sont-ils en train de remodeler le libre accès ? | Open Scholarship Policy Observatory

ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 2d

"Are AI Bots Re-Shaping Open Access?" Proud of this piece I authored for the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, w/thanks to James MacGregor (CRKN) for his comments & FDBK. @carl-abrc.bsky.social even snuck in a last min mention re: Oct 30 AI Bots CoP

ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/ai-bots-open...

Are Bots Re-Shaping Open Access? | Open Scholarship Policy Observatory

ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 3d

@lucyces.bsky.social 🤓

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CARL / ABRC @carl-abrc.bsky.social · 3d

🤖 AI bots are swarming repositories! / Les bots d'IA envahissent les dépôts !

Join the Canadian Repositories CoP on October 30 to discuss mitigation strategies.

Rejoignez la CdP des dépôts canadiens le 30 octobre pour discuter de stratégies d'atténuation.

🔗 www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 3d

Hey Canadian humanities and social sciences folks: Canadian Internet Governance Forum (CIGF) 2025 | Nov 13 in-person (Ottawa) and online. DigiSov + cybersecurity are topics. Tell your friends! @aaronmauro.bsky.social

canadianigf.ca/event-details/

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CRKN - RCDR @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social · 4d

✨📚 We’re proud to highlight First Nation Public Library Week, marking its 25 years of growth, resilience, and community connection.

Shine a light on the vital role of on-reserve public libraries and celebrate Indigenous culture, history, and people!

resources.olservice.ca/fnplw/2025

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 6d

📚👀Reading rainbowwww 🌈🦋

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 6d

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun!

We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 6d

Reading Rainbow Is Back With a New Host -- @mychal3ts.bsky.social -- And The Same Mission

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/s...

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

And: Collister, L., Lippincott, S., Kemp, J., Skinner, K., & Steinhart, G. (2025). Preparing for Public Access: Mapping Institutional Workflows for Sponsored Research Success. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Preparing for Public Access: Mapping Institutional Workflows for Sponsored Research Success

As part of our project, “Investigating ‘reasonable costsʼ to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific dataˮ, supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 23308...

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

Also: Steinhart, G., Collister, L., Kemp, J., Lippincott, S., & Skinner, K. (2025). Between the Memo and the Mandate: Institutional Perspectives on Public Access Readiness. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Between the Memo and the Mandate: Institutional Perspectives on Public Access Readiness

Beginning on or before 31 December 2025, all recipients of United States federal research funding will be required to make their federally funded scholarly outputs, including scientific data, freely a...

doi.org

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

Collister, L. & Kemp, J. (2025, May 7). “‘Reasonable Costs’ for publishing: What do we know now, and what can library publishers help us find out?” Library Publishing Forum. Virtual. Recording. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4TP...

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

Schares, E. (2024, July 31). Data on Datasets: Quantifying US federally funded records in DataCite. investinopen.org/blog/data-on...

Data on Datasets: Quantifying US federally funded records in DataCite

An exploration of federally funded datasets in the DataCite registry.

investinopen.org

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

Steinhart, G., & Collister, L. (2023, December 11). To fee or not to fee: Charging for deposit to research data repositories. investinopen.org/blog/blog-to...

To fee or not to fee: Charging for deposit to research data repositories

An exploration of the prevalence of deposit fees for data repositories using the re3data.org registry of research data repositories.

investinopen.org

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

Kemp, J., & Skinner, K. (2024). The Cost and Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A Synthesis. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The Cost and Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A Synthesis

Following the release of the Nelson Memo by the US Office of Science and Technology Policy in August 2022, all recipients of US federal research funding will be required to make their federally funded...

doi.org

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

Steinhart, G., & Skinner, K. (2024). The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis

Beginning on or before 31 December 2025, all recipients of United States federal research funding will be required to make their federally funded scholarly outputs, including scientific data, freely a...

doi.org

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

Costs versus prices of open access: some great resources listed here in stream 1 of @investinopen.bsky.social 'reasonable costs' project: investinopen.org/blog/reasona...

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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 9d

Government launches consultation on new AI strategy. This one has a tight timeline - responses due by the end of the month. Can respond to a survey or offer comments. Says it expects the new strategy to be developed by the end of the year.
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Britt @balloonleap.bsky.social · 7d

Nope, still HSS Commons for the time being (it's a research prototype). Hsscommons.ca

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