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Dawn Pike
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Open Research Librarian. Interested in copyright, open research and digital preservation.
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I’m loving the celebrity traitors, but I’ve been saying from the start that it’s such an interesting case study on unconscious bias and race. This piece by Elizabeth day articulates it better than me: theelizabethday.substack.com/p/what-celeb...
What Celebrity Traitors Reveals About Racism on Reality TV
How popular shows mirror - and magnify - the racial biases of the societies that produce them.
theelizabethday.substack.com
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New Blog Post: 'Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access'. For OA Week, our senior editor Lucy Barnes writes about an issue of increasing concern to libraries: the implications of different types of open licence.

buff.ly/7radka2
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The distress call "mayday!" has nothing to do with May. It's from French [venez] m'aider "[come] help me!" Sounds made up but it's true!
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Word of the Day is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and bask in its warmth.
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See my Mastodon thread for many other examples of this mistake.
fediscience.org/@petersuber/...

#ScholComm
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CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals.
Read more👇
www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...
Statement: Removal of access to and modification of data by authorities in the USA
CILIP invites members and the wider information profession community to share examples of how content, reports, datasets, evidence, and tools are being removed by US authorities
www.cilip.org.uk
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In a Jisc webinar, hearing that OUP have charged Manchester Uni more than £20,000 each for two OA books. Absolutely outrageous charges, and absolutely unsurprising to hear it was OUP.

A Q abt cost breakdown wasn't answered, but you can bet the prestige premium makes up a hefty chunk of that money.
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NEW on Wonkhe: Can we use things we already measure to examine research culture in REF 2029? For Elizabeth Gadd there is scope to make better use of existing measures to improve research culture for everyone https://bit.ly/3ErKxWn
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/difficu... This is really sad news, I was a proud nightline volunteer throughout university and the Nightline association gave us wonderful training. I hope individual campus Nightlines can remain open.
‘Difficult funding landscape’ forces Nightline charity closure
Individual campus listening services to remain operational after umbrella body folds
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
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Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2025: ✨We are all stardust.✨

Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born.

Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0, flickr
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These are exciting times for us here at Shef - a move towards a world free from unsustainable, inequitable Big Deals may just be possible after all
"The University will not renew its 'big deal' subscription to Elsevier, which expires on 31 December 2024."

Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year...

www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...
Updates on access to Library resources (journals).
In January, there will be changes to access to some Library resources (journals).
www.sheffield.ac.uk