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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 5h

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 5h

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum

This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.

www.sas.ac.uk

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 21h

This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22h

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19h

Thank you -- that's great to hear!

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 22h

www.nature.com/articles/pal...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 20h

Oh wait, I saw @needhibhalla.bsky.social already shared it!

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 20h

You might enjoy our take on this www.nature.com/articles/pal...

“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence

www.nature.com

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 23h

"His talk will challenge us to examine the complex realities of ownership, access, and equity in knowledge production" -- Yes please!

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 23h

All are invited to this #OAWeek webinar, "Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective," featuring Nwachukwu Egbunike, Head of Pan-Atlantic University Press in Lagos, on Tues 10/21 4pm ET. Read more & register: events.umich.edu/event/139485

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Marin Dacos @marind.bsky.social · 1d

Five scientific journals have received a grant from NWO to switch from a subscription model. They will adopt the diamond open access model: open access for readers and authors also do not have to pay to publish their articles.

www.nwo.nl/en/news/five...

Five Dutch journals ‘flip’ to diamond open access | NWO

Five scientific journals have received a grant from NWO to switch from a subscription model. They will adopt the diamond open access model: a form of open access in which not only is the content freely available to readers, but authors also do not have to pay to publish their articles. The NWO executive board has allocated a total of over 187,000 euros for this.

www.nwo.nl

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 1d

"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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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 1d

And the library infrastructure for print books continues to crumble. No more binderies, no more distributors. Getting pretty bleak!

Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

From the Libraries community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Libraries community

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 1d

"We must work step by step, in an organizational way, toward direct control of universities. If we do, we’ll be of real use to our knowledge allies [...] in building the self-governing knowledge systems we need to block authoritarian implosion and get a future we want."

By Christopher Newfield.

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 2d

"For Ivan Illich, convivial practices and tools center on the capacity to build communities, while also respecting the individual. Moore’s understanding of the commons depends upon the notion of commoning which has affinities of Illich’s notion of convivial practices"

- Bill Caraher reviews my book

Publishing as Commons

I very much enjoyed reading Samual Moore’s Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (2025). It was a book that I would have liked to have read before David Pettegrew and I p…

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 2d

I like manifestos though -- I think we need more of them (including this one!)

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 2d

Very much in favour of the need for more experimentation and fewer grand unified theories of scholarly communication.

pracheeac.substack.com/p/scholarly-...

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem.

pracheeac.substack.com

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 4d

"This issue of PARSE Journal starts from the tangled and mesmerising fabric of collective artistic practice, particularly from the frictions that keep coming up when sharing work that was collectively produced or while reusing works made by others."

parsejournal.com/article/ecol...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 4d

"This issue of PARSE Journal starts from the tangled and mesmerising fabric of collective artistic practice, particularly from the frictions that keep coming up when sharing work that was collectively produced or while reusing works made by others."

parsejournal.com/article/ecol...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 5d

"It was about relationships, shared labour, and refusal. It was about making space – for each other, for alternative forms of scholarship, and for survival."

Write-up by Rebekka Kiesewetter of the recent Radical Open Access conference.

Reflections on Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism – Radical Open Access Collective

radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 4d

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head

Register now for our in-person event in Cambridge on December 3rd co-organised by the Open Research team at Cambridge and @coar-repositories.bsky.social. Full programme to follow!

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head

Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at Cambridge University on December 3rd for an in-depth discussion …

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 5d

"It was about relationships, shared labour, and refusal. It was about making space – for each other, for alternative forms of scholarship, and for survival."

Write-up by Rebekka Kiesewetter of the recent Radical Open Access conference.

Reflections on Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism – Radical Open Access Collective

radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 5d

Yeah, that's an outcome of funders no longer paying fees for hybrid journals so libraries are covering the costs because they're where researchers want to publish. Not great!

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 5d

MIT's response to the NIH policy takes aim at the double-dipping practices of hybrid journals.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 5d

"If an article will be published in a subscription or “hybrid” journal, public access should be accomplished via use of the Government Use License to deposit the author’s accepted manuscript into PubMed Central. If an article will be published in a fully-OA journal, publication costs are permitted."

MIT Libraries’ response to the NIH on limiting allowable publishing costs | News

In July 2025, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will create a policy to limit the amount of NIH funds that grantholders can use towards paying for open access article processing ...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 6d

Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken?

www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken? – podcast

Scientists warn academic publishing needs reform in order to retain trust in research system. Ian Sample talks to Madeleine Finlay and Dr Mark Hanson proposes potential solutions

www.theguardian.com

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OASPA - The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association @oaspa.bsky.social · 6d

Read reflections on #OASPA2025 by @drachiarelli.bsky.social in Italian and with an English translation.
Multilingualism is just one of the many important considerations raised at the conference. Do share your own reflections #inyourownwords

www.linkedin.com/posts/oaspa_...

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