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pentathlos.bsky.social
@pentathlos.bsky.social
Academic librarian, but expect re/posting on many different things. (We all have a past.) Professional interests: scholarly comms, library systems, and the future of libraries in higher education.
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Will we see you on Wed Dec 3 as we celebrate @coarassessment.bsky.social 3rd Birthday and discuss the opportunities for the #ResearchAssessment reform movement?
Please register via the links below:
Onsite in Copenhagen - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... / Online - us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Registration for on-site participation in the event "Celebrating three years of CoARA: Collectively shaping the future of research assessment"
docs.google.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I recorded a video for my #slvresidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #glam websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-video-tim-sherratt #libraries #digitalhumanities
How to 'hack' a library website – a video tutorial by Tim Sherratt | SLV LAB
Learn how to hack a web browser to view and access online collections in different ways
lab.slv.vic.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Join us for a special SCOSS Showcase Webinar highlighting the collective impact of the SCOSS-endorsed open infrastructures! 🌍

🗓️ Date: Monday, 1 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15.00–16.45 UTC / 16.00–17.45 CET / 17.00–18.45 CAT(convert to your time zone)
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Adding in that fewer publishers still will sell e-(text)books to *academic* libraries.(They'd much rather a student cohort all bought an individual copy from a retailer.)
If they do, there are the licensing considerations, such as a limit on the numbers of users at once or "borrows".
#oer #ebooksos
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Better together, indeed!

Learn how @researchorgs.bsky.social and @orcid.org's systems interact and complement each other enhancing data quality and adding valuable trust markers to researchers’ records. buff.ly/daQAyWQ
Better Together: ORCID + ROR
info.orcid.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍

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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library

https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I basically think this is the edge of a pretty bad storm of copyright conservatism and a reopening of the license wars (which may make no difference due to transformative use). However, if you put up a paywall to acquire, AI companies have to acquire legally in current court rulings. Problematic.
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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“a restoration team from Gaza's Ministry of Religious Endowments is painstakingly retrieving historical manuscripts, rare volumes, and archival documents — some nearly 700 years old — from beneath the rubble.”
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"[APCs]...... have sometimes seemed to be correlated to the established prestige or impact factor of a journal."
Now there's a mealy-mouthed statement.
This is a tiresome writeup. Yes, APCs are bad for the humanities. That's why some of us have spent over a decade working on alternative models. These are barely mentioned.
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Anna Hatch is next, sharing a series of actions from @hhmi.org to shift academic incentives! What innovations in responsible research assessment you think can be relevant to your institutions?
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Using DOAJ for your research?

Historical DOAJ data is now available on Zenodo (an open access research repository).

DOAJ data on Zenodo https://bit.ly/49cbDyi
##OpenData #OpenAccess
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Open infrastructure, open data: Our role in advancing OA research – DOAJ Blog https://blog.doaj.org/2025/11/19/open-infrastructure-open-data-our-role-in-advancing-oa-research/
__Our community-driven data has long supported research into open access publishing trends. By providing open, downloadable historical datasets under CC BY licenses, we aim to promote transparency, good data practices, and meaningful contributions to scholarly communication.__ Over the years, we’ve noticed how our community uses our data to understand trends, developments and changes in the open access publishing landscape. Being able to contribute to research on scholarly communications in such a meaningful way as a resource has been valuable – but also expected – as it is in line with our core values as a community-led open infrastructure. Many of our current and past team members have also contributed to the research landscape through publications, and our expertise and insights are often being called upon. During November and December, DOAJ has a focus on data, specifically our own data! This post will give a bit of insight into the decision around this focus. **What is new?** * We have shared historical csv files to Zendo from 2003 to 2025 and given them a DOI. * We have created a Zotero group of research using DOAJ data and information. **Isn’t DOAJ data already openly available?** Our most current data can always be downloaded from our website, completely open. However, being a live database, our data is constantly changing. Those using our data for research often download their own datasets, and though many share their data as good practice, there has not been one set place to keep track of all of these datasets, and the datasets available were always just the most up to date CSV file. In line with our recent recommitment to POSI (Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure), sharing our historical data aligns with accountability, transparency and sustainability. We hope that by making historical data available online, we can contribute to good practice around open data, transparency and data citation. All files are of course open and shared under CC BY licenses. **How can you contribute?** There are three ways you can help us build the data and bibliographic resources we have initiated through Zenodo and Zotero, and make it easier for the community to find research using DOAJ: 1. **Contribute to the DOAJ Data Zenodo community**. If you use DOAJ Data for research, and download a new dataset through our public data dump, upload it to our Zenodo DOAJ Data Community. This means the dataset will get a DOI, which you can cite, and others can easily find the dataset(s) you’ve used, which increases transparency in research. It’s also extremely valuable to have a record of time stamped data used for research from a resource that is in constant change. We therefore highly encourage you to _not only_ use the ones we have uploaded, but to also upload your own DOAJ datasets*. _*All datasets being uploaded to the DOAJ Data community on Zenodo are checked and verified by our team, so that only DOAJ data files are included in the community._ 2. **Add publications using DOAJ data to the Zotero group**. We have started a record on Zotero with research using DOAJ – however, this is far from complete. Please help us populate this by adding research from your community to the list. This will help those working in the area find existing research, both historical and new. It also helps us keep track of how our community is using our database for research, and therefore gives us an indication of how our community wants us to adapt to developments. 3.**Get in touch**. Do you know of any good examples of researchers using our data, or perhaps you’re a keen DOAJ data user yourself? Get in touch with us, we would love to speak to researchers in our community who have used DOAJ for research. **Zenodo** is a general-purpose research repository that allows anyone to share, preserve, and discover a wide range of research outputs for free **Zotero** is a free, open-source reference management tool that helps users collect, organise, cite, and share research sources
blog.doaj.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-school-library-releases-first-complete-set-of-digitized-nuremberg-trials-records/
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.

Another one of our most-read articles over the last week.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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More than 1,600 people attended #OpenEd25 last month in Denver & online! Hear what some of them had to say about the experience. We just posted a wrap-up story on the event w/ key takeaways & their hopes for the future of #opened #OER. sparcopen.org/news/2025/op...
Open Education Community Keeps Eyes on the Horizon at October Conference - SPARC
sparcopen.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Are you getting the most out of your funding data? Join our webinar to learn how connecting #funding information to research outputs can help you meet #openscience goals and track compliance with your policies. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/6817616658237/WN_AjrIMeLESHOdNo3s69bMNw
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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If you're using the API and constructing queries dynamically, you can pull back all the abbreviations for a suburb and adjust by year, or just add OR clauses […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Pleased to join "Strategies for publishers to make scholarly #metadata openly available" #Munin2025

w/ Bianca Kramer @barcelonadori.bsky.social, Colleen Campbell @mpdl.mpg.de, Dominic Mitchell @doaj.bsky.social, Anne Gentil-Beccot EONR, and Mike Nason @pkp.sfu.ca

septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SC...
🚀 Munin Conference 2025 is LIVE at UiT! 🌟 Exciting discussions on making scholarly metadata openly available underway. Join the conversation! 📝📊 #Munin2025 #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #Tromsø #Norway
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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RELEVANT to the two talks from @oai-ge.bsky.social we just watched as part of our Australian satellite event -
'Open Source AI: Propagation of Open Source Licenses in the Age of AI' +
'Open Science, Next Generation Metrics, and the World of Publishing'
See the recordings here oai.events
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM