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Sarah Brundrett @tomesandtech.bsky.social · 1d

#aibeyond2025 - @heroicendeavour.bsky.social speaks to "Reclaiming agency in the new world of AI" and whether we as individuals are a passenger or a pilot in this space.
Discussion of AI Determinism and whether the encouraged adoption of a new tool fits our library requirements.

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Sarah Brundrett @tomesandtech.bsky.social · 1d

#aibeyond2025 - @aj-boston.bsky.social discusses the variation of views and opinions between AI evangelists and AI atheists and how, despite *however much we may want to*, we can't simply avoid discussion of "AI".

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 1d

SETTING UP- the amazing team behind today’s Symposium- “Beyond Certainty- What does 'Discovery' mean in an open and artificially intelligent world?" #AIBeyond

www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...

Picture of room with technology and screens

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Alex Henderson @alexhenderson.info · 1d

Well, the UN are up for Open Science. Are you?

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 1d

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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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 1d

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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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 1d

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.

hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 1d

ATTACKS from bots are a major problem for libraries scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/07/g...
"Can we differentiate the behavior in our systems from the motives of the operating individual or organization, and should we be in the business of judging “good” and “bad” site visitors and uses?"

Guest Post - “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era - The Scholarly Kitchen

AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT managem...

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 2d

If you are heading Brisbane - way let me know! I can show you around.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d

LAST CALL: Beyond Certainty-What does 'Discovery' mean in an open & artificially intelligent world? #AIBeyond2025
Wed 8 Oct - www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
Keynote @mcintold.bsky.social
Videos from @aj-boston.bsky.social, @heroicendeavour.bsky.social @aarontay.bsky.social + live discussions!

Beyond Certainty

www.deakin.edu.au

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d

RELEVANT to our symposium #AIBeyond2025 "Beyond Certainty - What does 'Discovery' mean in an open and artificially intelligent world?"
Wed 8th October from 9.30am AEDT. Full program and speaker details -https://www.deakin.edu.au/library/about/projects-and-initiatives/beyond-certainty

Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 7d

[blogged] The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol... - an analysis of OpenAlex abstract coverage changes for Elsevier & Springernature

The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives

Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary “AI-powered academic search engines” today.

aarontay.substack.com

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d

RESOURCE for publishers - AI Opportunity Map www.ce-strategy.com/services/ai-...

AI Opportunity Map | Clarke & Esposito

AI Opportunity Map: Decision support tool for publishers to align AI opportunities with business goals. Cut through the noise and focus on real value-driven initiatives.

www.ce-strategy.com

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d

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

journals.aas.org

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d

WEAPONISED- language has been in the centre of the open debate from the start upstream.force11.org/language-co-...

Language co-option in the open space

Coming down from the recent FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) and FORCE2024 conference at UCLA has allowed reflection on some of the recurring themes from the two events. One of these w...

upstream.force11.org

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d

That is a very, very specific reference…

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 4d

Was that a 50m or 25m pool Elisabeth? If 50m that is a very fast time!

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 7d

TOOL: Not sure how/if copyright is managed with this: "Learn Your Way: Reimagining textbooks with generative AI" research.google/blog/learn-y...

Learn Your Way: Reimagining textbooks with generative AI

research.google

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 9d

GEARING UP: Join more than 300 people attending our symposium: "Beyond Certainty – what does ‘Discovery’ mean in an open and artificially intelligent world?" www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
8 October 9:30am AEST
#AIBeyond2025

Beyond Certainty

www.deakin.edu.au

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 9d

INTEREST: presumably because of the #OASPA2025 summaries!

Graph showing accumulation of LinkedIn impressions over the past week - reaching 7,798

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 9d

USEFUL: Generative Al License Tracker from Ithaca S+R sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen... Tracking deals publishers have with companies licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLM

(Noting the 'their content' aspect of this - read your publishing agreements folks before signing)

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R

In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

sr.ithaka.org

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 12d

HOME! just under exactly one week away at #OASPA2025 - left home 7.30pm last Friday, back 6.30pm this Friday. All up approx 60 hours in transit(!). Worth it. Great conference, great people, good ideas, beautiful location. Thanks OASPA!

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 13d

DELIGHTED to see the wonderful @martateperek.bsky.social represented here!

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 13d

The European University Institute has an exhibition up for OA week. They very kindly featured me as a "voice of change".

blogs.eui.eu/library/onli...

A panel of people: Jeroen Bosman, Martin Eve (me!), Jean Claude Guedon, Heather Joseph, Eva Méndez, Frances Pinter, Peter Suber, Aaron Swartz, Marta Teperek.

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 14d

1/ With speakers now addressing the central question of "why do you care about open access"? I'm not sure actually what my own answer would be. But I think part of it would borrow from what @rupertgatti.bsky.social said yesterday, which is that open access is for many of us not a sufficient goal

Copim @copim.bsky.social · 14d

The next #OASPA2025 panel should be good!

Open Access: of what, for what, and why?

🔶Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan Press
🔶Antia Wiersma, Royal Netherlands Historical Society
🔶John Wilkin, Lyrasis
🔶Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Université Claude Bernard Lyon
🔶Sam Moore, Radical Open Access

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 14d

FINAL summary notes for #OASPA2025 - www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...
and www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...

Thanks for a great conference folks!

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 14d

FRESH HORROR- this is what Starbucks in Brussels thinks a white tea is. Just wow.

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 14d

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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