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PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 4h

Go @thoth-metadata.bsky.social or go home.

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Laura J. Smart @ljsmart.bsky.social · 4h

Lack of transparency from vendors is a big problem, among other big problems with transparency in AI metadata. I'm 3/4 through leading a research project evaluating the enhanced eBook Central records which should be getting submitted for pub in early Dec. I'll post when it's available.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

Dear Alex,
We are writing to share an important update coming to Ebook Central that will help improve ebook discoverability. At the end of October 2025, Ebook Central Express MARC records will include AI-generated metadata when publisher metadata fields are not available.

Why are we introducing AI-generated metadata to Ebook Central records?

Most publishers include subject information in their metadata, but there are times when this information is not included, leading to limited search availability in discovery systems. For this reason, we are providing AI-generated Library of Congress subject headings only when not available from the publisher to improve the completeness of our metadata and discoverability of Ebook Central titles.

Which AI-generated fields are included in Express MARC? 

The AI-generated fields will include Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) (6XX); Library of Congress Classification (050); Dewey Decimal (082); Description (520); and Source of Description (588). To learn more, please visit our FAQ page.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 5h

The indifference one receives shouldn't be read negatively. A lot of people have a lot of shit going on. Care is what is how we should approach everything. Even more so she. We feel uncared for.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 7h

Bringing the disparate into the whole is, to me, almost 'the point'.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 7h

It feels relevant, albeit a bit of a squeeze in some/many ways (I'm working on it!), but the community-led ethos and actions participate in collective infrastructuring is, to me, directly related to the thrust of what is often termed 'scholar-led' approaches to contemporary digital publishing.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 7h

For my anarcho-oriented self, the hierarchies are very unpicked through postcolonial and anarcho-feminist adjacent thinking.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 8h

All praise to the feminist boaters network for coming to my rescue.

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 9h

🧵 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

openbookcollective.pubpub.org

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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 10h

well well well :) https://errolshotwax.bandcamp.com/album/love-trinity

Love Trinity, by Life Without Buildings

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 10h

Yet more proof that despite our romantic idealisation of universities, in practice they are run by people who volunteer to call the cops on their own students and staff. I say this as someone given a written warning for a tweet about what seagulls and managers have in common.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 14h

(I'm also using Mothsky to cross post from Mastodon).

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 15h

via WearThePeace

'A pro-Palestine protester in Berlin where they are known for their abusive cops flips one over before he’s arrested.'

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 15h

) in the field and homogenise it, retaining all the exclusionary facets that many radical approaches to (open access) digital publishing seek to remove.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 15h

I think there is a throughline of hierarchy and "expertise" in the political rationalities of 'liberal' and 'pragmatic' approaches to scholarly communications. These seek to obfuscate the variant politics of a range of actors (scholars, publishers, infrastructure developers, etc.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 15h

Currently reading 'Knowledge production, space-making, and solidarities in removing the abortion ban in Ireland' (Bodelson, 2025): https://doi.org/10.24834/isbn.9789178776405

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 17h

Further enclosing AHSS disciplines limits access to and the production of critical thought.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 17h

Contrasting headlines

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 17h

New header for a new start on here.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 17h

Let's see what disasters come our way today...

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

I just woke up after a full 30min.and assumed it was the morning. This bodes poorly for the notion of sleep tonight.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

Some acronyms cross even my unreasonably lenient lines. Oof.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

But whomstsoever is the arbiter of a) all thee RIMS b) their profiles c) RIMS implementation?

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

I was incredibly fortunate to work for and with @openbookcollective.bsky.social, and I love to keep up with all @copim.bsky.social crew on the general toils. But I tell you what: they're bloody good. (And, to paraphrase Janneke Adema, they're very cool and you need to support them.)