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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress

The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 1d

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week, welcome to Bluesky @dorothywaugh.bsky.social - Head of Workforce Development at the DPC for all your training and skills needs.

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Alt: a bald man is smiling with the words welcome aboard behind him

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 1d

Good news for diamond #OpenAccess. I’m finalising our @openlibhums.org Annual Report where we publish a breakdown of OLH finances. 91% of UK library supporters are now electing to increase their OLH annual memberships to £5,000 & £10,000. It’s a powerful direction of travel for nonprofit publishing!

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 2d

Join us for #OAWeek!

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social

🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST

🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX

Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

Preserving the past in real time — that’s our 24/7 #livestream 📡
📥 Weekdays (7:30 AM–Midnight PT): watch microfiche scanning in action
📼 When scanning pauses: curated archival video keeps the stream going
All set to mellow #lofi vibes.

👀➡️ www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY...

#LiveNow #lofi

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...

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loubezuidenhout.bsky.social @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social · 1d

Want to be part of a conversation about geopolitics and Open Science? Why not join us in Leiden on the 6th of November for the workshop "Resilience in times of crisis". Registration open now (in person only). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Resilience in times of crisis: Strengthening Open Science against geopolitical pressures

The success of the Open Science movement relies on research products and infrastructures being open, accessible and sustainably curated. Recent global events, however, have illustrated the vulnerabili...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for incentives to change in scientific publishing? We’ve got you!

I hope other funders follow suit to make the most of their research dollars

SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 1d

We just posted an impact story on policies at HHMI, Gates & Astera promoting #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Powerful signals to other funders to accelerate discovery in science. Well done @madubs.bsky.social @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @pracheeac.bsky.social! sparcopen.org/impact-story...

Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC

sparcopen.org

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joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 1d

PKP Scientific Director Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca is Co-Director of the #ScholCommLab, along with Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca, and they're getting ready for #OAWeek 2025 with the @uottawabiblio.bsky.social!

Check it out ⤵️

Bibliothèque uOttawa Library @uottawabiblio.bsky.social · 4d

#OpenAccessWeek (Oct 20–26) is coming! Theme: “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”

Join us on Oct 23, 1 – 2:30 p.m., with @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca & Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin to discuss equity and transparency in scholarly communication: www.uottawa.ca/library/even...

@uottawaarts.bsky.social @uottawa.ca

Text reads: International Open Access Week - Who Owns Our Knowledge? From Closed to Open Infrastructures for Research Assessment and Metascience. Please register in advance for this hybrid event. With Stefanie Haustein, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies and Co-Director of the ScholCommLab and Juan Pablo ALperin, Scientific Director, Public Knowledge Project and Co-Director of the ScholCommLab.

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 4d

We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments!

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 8d

In this new article from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Managing Director of LSE Press, and @heroicendeavour.bsky.social discuss open educational resources in the context of higher education.

Read the full post:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openaccess #highereducation

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

eLife partners with leading UK universities on open access publishing agreements | For the press | eLife https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/43965fcb/elife-partners-with-leading-uk-universities-on-open-access-publishing-agreements

eLife partners with leading UK universities on open access publishing agreements

Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield have signed up to eLife’s uncapped scheme in support of a more open, equitable and sustainable science publishing system.

elifesciences.org

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d

PROGRESS: HHMI budgets can no longer be used to pay APCs at hybrid journals hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm... HHMI will seek to replace APC
payments from HHMI lab budgets with centralized support of publisher service fees, including transparent peer review services for preprints.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d

OPEN - NOW!: Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board on:
Open Science www.un.org/scientific-a... "this Scientific Advisory Board calls for urgent cooperation to advance science as a global public good – and we stress that doing so requires accelerated transformation to open science."

Open Science | Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board

www.un.org

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 4d

"For too long, we have outsourced how we define prestige to the indexers and specifically the impact factor. This has created a system in which the need to get published in prestigious journals creates bad incentives for authors to inflate their findings to tell a good story."

Putting knowledge before prestige | Laboratory News

Our reliance upon the impact factor is destroying public trust in science, argues Damian Pattinson.

www.labnews.co.uk

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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 4d

Libraries that share their materials internationally are being hurt by Trump’s EO ending the de minimis exemption, even though they’re not selling anything: they’re just lending books.

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

I think it's useful, but it still seems very much focused on images. Personally I'd to see it broadened out to explicitly include access to the full range of heritage data types in machine-readable forms. And at a range of scales.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 5d

INNOVATIVE: "The AAS calculates article publication charges using an approach that counts “digital quanta”, units of information in digital form that the author supplies. Digital quanta can include words, figures, tables, data components, and figure set." journals.aas.org/article-char...

Article Publication Charges and Licensing Agreements - AAS Journals

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Catching up on some blogging for my #slvresidency ... Here's a post about some work I did a couple of weeks back creating bounding boxes for parish maps from the point, size, and scale metadata. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/10/06/creating-bounding-boxes-for-parish.html #maps #libraries […]

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