sal-lib.bsky.social
@sal-lib.bsky.social
Retired academic librarian - Open Access, Open Science, Repositories. Piano, calligraphy, and gardening amongst other things :-)
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Job alert! The @coalitions-oa.bsky.social is searching for a new director. More info: 👇
🔊#VacancyAlert: We are seeking an experienced Director to lead and coordinate @coalitions-oa.bsky.social work towards our goal for rapid, open, transparent, equitable #OpenAccess.
Sound interesting? Application deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
➡️ www.coalition-s.org/vacancy-dire... #Plan_S #ScholarlyComms
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🗞️We have just launched a tender for the @coalitions-oa.bsky.social Host Secretariat to support the implementation of our new strategy and work plan on #OpenAccess.
Applications deadline: 31 Jan 2026, 17:00 CET
Details available at 👉 www.coalition-s.org/tender-for-t... #Plan_S
December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I'm sympathetic to #NIH-funded authors who want to publish in #APC-based #openaccess journals and can't find the money to pay the APCs. But it's false to say that they must publish in those journals, in any other APC-based OA journals, or even in OA journals. Shame on _Inside Higher Ed_ leaving […]
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December 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.

This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪

(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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"Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries."
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/11/court-permanently-blocks-trumps-executive-order-dismantle-federal-agency-americas

"Today Nov 21], the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island […]
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November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Thank you @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social for an incredibly inspiring talk this afternoon in Malvern. I found your message of seeking light and decency amidst the despair and hate profoundly moving. May the BBC retain and engage more journalists like you.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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1/ cOAlition S announces its 2026–2030 strategy, guided by a refreshed, shared vision: a scholarly communication system that enables rapid, open, transparent & equitable sharing of trustworthy scientific knowledge.
www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-...
#OpenScience #ScholarlyComm #Plan_S #OpenAccess
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Fab...u...lous!
Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️

Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.

Oxford: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526

Harvard […]
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November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
November 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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I’m absolutely delighted to have been offered the role of Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk. I’m looking forward to supporting @libdemdaisy.bsky.social and the rest of the team, as we continue to build on the LibDem record of responsible, ambitious economic policy.
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@richove.bsky.social John was a great fan of your book 'Burning the books' He was delighted to have met you.
Just heard the sad news that John Osman, the doyen of BBC foreign correspondents and an inspiration to people like me, has died. A life really well lived. Farewell dear friend.
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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DOAJ x Diamond Discovery Hub (ddh.diamas.org/en) 💎

Two pillars of Open Access, one shared mission.

Discover how they’re working together to make open publishing more visible, connected, and sustainable 👀 👇
💎DOAJ and the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH): Working with the community to support #OpenAccess
Partnering with @craft-oa.bsky.social
➡️centralising expertise and collaboration
➡️offering greater visibility through the DDH @eudch.bsky.social
Details blog.doaj.org/2025/10/23/d...
DOAJ and the Diamond Discovery Hub: Working with the community to support open access – DOAJ Blog
blog.doaj.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.

📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition
October 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC
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October 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Operation Mincemeat at the Fortune Theatre. Stunning musical. Taps every emotion. Stunningly talented cast and excellent band. Highly recommend.

operationmincemeat.com

@opmincememe.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hear, hear. Highly recommended reading
Ahead of a formal celebration of the 1850 Public Libraries Act in Manchester next week, I have a piece in @theobserveruk.bsky.social this weekend celebrating that forward-looking legislation (and a call to action). observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Libraries are palaces for the people. Their ramparts need...
The spirit of public improvement that led to the legislation that created free public libraries 175 years go needs to be rekindled
observer.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines:
From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out
“Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”
www.etpnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.

A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
September 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.
Academia.edu | Privacy
Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
www.academia.edu
September 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM