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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

It is nice to see a bit of good news out there (sometimes you have to dig for it).

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Library Cactus/Sarah Humphreys @sarahhlib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 9d

It's that time of year again!

Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 Conference
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, and accessible […]

[Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 15d

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 15d

Anne: budget uncertainty is possibly even worse than budget cuts. Makes it harder to commit to some of the smaller committments, particularly as they are easier to get out of than the parts of our locked in budgets. Need to stop multi year deals so we have budget flexibility. #OASPA2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 15d

We all know that publishing #OpenAccess increases citations and views, but there is also evidence that OA content has helped to shorten PhD studies from 6 years to 4 years in France. - Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri #OASPA2025

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 15d

CHALLENGE in China - researchers are pursing high impact journals not OA journals. There is a white list – containing about 1600 OA journals. These are the ones Chinese scholars want to publish in. This is an issue that will hinder full OA in China. #OASPA2025

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 16d

USEFUL breakdown of the process a large organisation underwent to adopt rights retention - presented by Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social at #OASPA2025 screen grab here but better version at www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

Poster presentation done. Only 5 mins but almost more daunting then a full session. Introducing EMBL's RRS to #OASPA2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

Good thread 👇 on Hannah Hope's talk at #OASPA2025

hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 16d

Hannah Hope from Wellcome, and the forever reminder that in many parts of the world, OA isn't something that happens "after" (for a fee), but is the starting point of publishing. #OASPA2025 - paraphrasing, but the convos about a small global minority (US/UK/EU publishing) sucks up all the oxygen.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 16d

SHIFT: Wellcome 2021 OA policy had unexpected result- policy was perpetuating existing inequality in research ecosystem. So they added preprints to versions of articles accepted, create space for institutional rights retention, redirect funds from TAs towards wider ecosystem. Hannah Hope #OASPA2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

After Wellcome changed their #openaccess policy in 2021, they saw that publishers modify their workflows to detect WT funded papers and closed certain routes to publication. They also gave exceptions to "prestigious" authors while ECRs were not given the same opportunities 🤯 #OASPA2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

Question about why don't we just have article level metrics?

With the introduction of social media, this would be easily gameable. Single metrics are a fallacy we need a cloud of different metrics to assess. - Bernd Pulverer

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

What publishers can do to help change research assessment; Focus on contribution instead of authorship, acknowledge that the paper doesn't show the whole research process, focus on process not results - Yensi Flores Bueso, University College Cork & Global Young Academy #OASPA2025

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Andrea Chiarelli @drachiarelli.bsky.social · 16d

Strongly agree:

We need to make OA “undeniable,” to the point where it sells itself. (Adapted from Stefan Tochev, MDPI)

#OASPA2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

To sum up some of the feelings in the panel of OA APC based publishers: all are struggling to get support from funders and libraries to push through barriers, feels like you are being penalised for getting their first. - Catriona MacCallum #OASPA2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 17d

There seems to be a general agreement that publishers need to be better at describing what they do and what their services are to provide evidence for their pricing. But they also need to talk to customers to ensure these are the services they actually want. #OASPA2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 17d

And we have wifi... #OASPA2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 22d

Always love a good word cloud. #OSFair25

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 22d

"We will never compete with the big corporations but we ask what will happen if we weren't there." Suzanne Dumouchel, OPERAS #OSFair25

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 22d

"We are not training researchers well on how to use AI. They have NO verification habits. We need to train them. In China they are introducing AI from first grade in school. We need to think collectively about this new skill set." @nataliamanola.bsky.social #OSfair2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 22d

An old version is in the University of Cambridge's repository: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.... Version: An Intro to Open Research Easter Term May 2018.

I think researchers make the mistake thinking the system has always been this way and in reality it is fairly recent.

Everything you need to know about Open Research

Presentation for HASS PhD students on 10th October 2018. The presentation provides graduate students with a brief introduction to Open Access and funder mandated requirements.

doi.org

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 22d

As someone who studied history, I love when a presentation explains the historical context. I used to do that in my intro to OA explaining the history of publishing. I think some people thought I was crazy, but I enjoyed it 😊

#OSFair25

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 23d

There was a comment that it is a myth that everyone wants to publish in Nature and Science. It's so 5 years ago.

I would love to believe that is true but researchers I work with overwhelmingly publish with the big publishers. Haven't quite convinced them to change...yet.

#OSFair2025

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 23d

SCOAP3 is a similar model as Open Research Europe but in a niche area. ORE will be able to create an ecosystem, available to everyone, funded by a community of the willing - Alex Kohls, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

#OSFair2025

Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 23d

Part of my intro to schol comms course at UBC we had to set up a journal on OJS to better understand what kind of things scholars had to consider like peer review, copyright, metadata when setting up a journal. It was a very useful assignment that has stuck with me. #OSFair2025