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Toby Steiner
Many flavours of open, background in media/TV & cultural studies • working @ @Thoth_metadata previously project manager Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (@copim) project • co-editor @ CSTonline
#fedi22 #OAbooks #openaccess #openeducation #openscholarship #scholcomm #hss #humanities #radicalOA #floss #opensource #openinfra #openinfrastructure #mediastudies #commodon
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Shadow Libraries: A collaborative bibliography | Zotero https://www.zotero.org/groups/2346073/open_research_open_science_open_scholarship/collections/R32R7QHN
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The Dangerous Politics of Ed-Tech| 2nd Breakfasts https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-dangerous-politics-of-ed-tech/
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Wait, how doe this solve anything, except making the journal less accessible to readers? ... 😑
"To make JOM a journal accessible to everyone working in the optical microsystems field, we have thus decided to shift from Gold Open Access to hybrid open access, starting in 2025. Authors will now have a choice: publish for free under access control, or pay the APC, in which case the article is Gold Open Access and free to read for everyone."
"Accessibility and Open Access," Journal of Optical Microsystems 5(1).
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-optical-microsystems/volume-5/issue-01/010101/Accessibility-and-Open-Access/10.1117/1.JOM.5.1.010101.full
@mike sometimes, I just despair ... 😩
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A new blog post about the forthcoming experimental #GitHub peer review project for my #ExperimentalPublishing #DeepMapping and #BlueHumanities book: https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.46761718 @copim @kbnationalebibliotheek #Writing #Review #Design
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Consider joining us tomorrow for our 8th ScholarLed Salon (a check-in with the good people at @Thoth_metadata). Details at the link https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ind2503&L=RADICALOPENACCESS&O=D&X=680057257BEB161ACE&Y=pooley@muhlenberg.edu&P=1506
Wait, how doe this solve anything, except making the journal less accessible to readers? ... 😑
"To make JOM a journal accessible to everyone working in the optical microsystems field, we have thus decided to shift from Gold Open Access to hybrid open access, starting in 2025. Authors will now have a choice: publish for free under access control, or pay the APC, in which case the article is Gold Open Access and free to read for everyone."
"Accessibility and Open Access," Journal of Optical Microsystems 5(1).
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-optical-microsystems/volume-5/issue-01/010101/Accessibility-and-Open-Access/10.1117/1.JOM.5.1.010101.full
From today's The Observer
‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten
by Kathryn Bromwich
"Even though we are seeing fewer headlines about long Covid, previously healthy people are still contracting it, with each successive infection increasing the risk. “We sometimes will see someone who’s had Covid one, two or three times without problems, and then on the fourth time, suddenly they’ve got long Covid, and that makes them ill for a long time,” says Heightman." ...
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Peter Barr explains why three UK #universities recently cancelled their #Elsevier #ReadAndPublish agreements and why these deals are unsustainable.
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365
PS: My own objections to these deals overlap significantly with Barr's. See the #BOAI20 Recommendation 4 ("Move away from read-and-publish agreements").
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/
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MOVING WITH THE TIMES: AN UPDATE FROM CSTONLINE by Toby Steiner, Sarah Lahm, and Kim Akass
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Breaking: The District Court of Berlin ("Landgericht") today ordered Twitter/X to give two research organisations - Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) - immediate access to all publicly available data until after the German election for the purpose of researching election influencing on the platform.
The court referred to Twitter/X's obligations under the EU Digital Services Act to give researchers access to the data. 1/3
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Hot off the press: a new blog post recapping our recent @copim workshop with more than 15 small- to medium-sized independent, scholar-led, and university and library publishers from the UK, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, and the United States.
"Accessibility, Archiving, and Open Metadata - A Copim Publishers’ Workshop."
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ROAC conference “Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism”, 10 & 11 April 2025, in Cambridge (UK) and online. Announcement of speakers and contributing journals and presses | RadicalOA on hcommons.social https://hcommons.social/@RadicalOA/113876805121390736
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Thanking our friend and colleague Graham Stone | Copim https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/grahamstone/release/1
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📢 We are really excited to announce the speakers, journals, and presses participating in this year's ROAC conference “Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism”, happening on 10 and 11 April 2025 online and at the Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library (UK).
Speakers: Élisabeth Arsenault, Sarah-Anne Arsenault, Lucy Barnes, Simon Batterbury, Marc Herbst, Rupert Gatti, Angela Okune, Charmaine Pereira, Jeff Pooley, Ela Przybyło, Magalí Rabasa, Ash Sharma, Stevphen Shukaitis, Lauren Smith, Alessandra Tosi, Vincent van Gerven Oei
Journals & Presses: darkmatter, ÉSBC, Feral Feminisms, Feminist Africa, Journal of Political Ecology, Journal of Radical Librarianship, mediastudies.press, Minor Compositions, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
@journalofpoliticalecology @mediadotpress @OpenBookPublish
More details, and registration via https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/
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We signed @investinopen 's timely Statement of Support for a Global Research Ecosystem because now is the time to support and sustain #openinfrastructures – for #oabooks and beyond!
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The _Journal of Open Source Software_ (#JOSS, @joss) "is a fully diamond #OpenAccess journal with a cost of around US$5 per paper for the 401 papers published in 2023."
See how this works.
https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/18285/
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Given the state of the world these days, it's probably about time we revisit the European alternatives to software and services from the American "defacto world monopolies" like #Microsoft, #Google, #Amazon, etc...
Why?
Because we can't afford to trust a spoiled brat who's just one "national security" excuse away from accessing whatever he wants, while also forcing these companies to stfu about it...
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Never a bad time to create your own piece of the web.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/
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