#Texas universities negotiated lower prices from #Elsevier. Plus this interesting pilot project:

"TLCUA [Texas Library Coalition for United Action] & Elsevier…agreed to…a pilot project to revert ownership of journal articles back to original authors —& not just those at TLCUA-member institutions. Currently, authors transfer #copyright of their work in exchange for…being published. This pilot will provide for rights to go back to authors after a period of time."
https://tlcua.org/news/2022/11/30/texas-universities-reach-historic-deal-with-elsevier/

@timelfen I guess watching authors wince but carry on with (someone else paying) inflated APCs has ruined me. Price sensitivity when you’re not the one paying doesn’t work. I suspect only a few conscientious authors would change publishers over it.

@timelfen would that create a new metric for “prestige” … a look at me, my book was soooo expensive I must be special vibe?

An examination of over 1 million funding proposals to the National Science Foundation from 1996 to 2019 reveals that white principal investigators are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs and relative funding rates for white PIs have been increasing. https://elifesciences.org/articles/83071?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features

@ct_bergstrom @nick Interesting work. The not so hidden influence of a few institutions seems like a recurring problem. What would we do without “prestige”? What we do with it, seems futile.

There's an important new piece, now out in the Communications of the ACM, from @nick and colleagues on how subfield differences and university prestige hierarchies contribute to gender inequity in faculty hiring in computer science.

Here's a short video summary:
https://vimeo.com/761970439

#ComputerScience #FacultyHiring #GenderDiversity #DEI #Prestige

The video recordings of #swib22 from yesterday were already uploaded!

Keynote:
1) Libraries, linked data, and decolonization https://youtu.be/cJxfZSv4xEI

Presentations of the Linked Library Data I session

2) Mapping and transforming MARC21 bibliographic metadata to LRM/RDA/RDF https://youtu.be/2NJPgMqEsnI

3) A crosswalk in the park? Converting from MARC 21 to #LinkedArt https://youtu.be/ZxkZnPerMgc

4) A LITL more quality: improving the correctness and completeness of library catalogs with a librarian-in-the-loop linked data workflow https://youtu.be/r29W73vle2I

#LOD #LOUD #LODLAM #decolonization #CulturalHeritage

@swib

Oh, this is why it’s called going “cold turkey”.

Only 11 months until next #persimmon season.

*PRO NERD TIP*

Today I learned about "The Wikipedia Library Card". If you've been a WP editor for >6 months, have made >500 edits, at least 10 edits in the last month, and are not blocked for being a jerk, you can access a *ton* of paywalled content for free.

ScienceDirect, AAAS, The BMJ, both APAs, EBSCO, Springer, Nature, Wiley, and many more.

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/about/

All those hours in 2005 spent editing sci-fi book articles finally paying off!

@petersuber With this divestment at the top, will the lower ranked schools just be happy to climb 8 spots or will the still-ranked place an asterisk by their names? How will this shake out down list?

@gbosslet I feel the same way about academic publishing and yet a herd of people with good intentions continues to invest unpaid labor into giant companies with a malignant impact. https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/addressing-the-alarming-systems-of-surveillance-built-by-library-vendors/

“Misunderestimating Openness”: James Boyle’s response to the #ParadoxofOpen analyzes the cognitive agoraphobia that leads to underestimating the benefits of #open.

Join us on 30 November at 17 CET as we launch the anthology “Paradox of Open: Responses”:
https://openfuture.eu/event/open-future-salon-2-launch-of-paradox-of-open-responses/

Commuting by bicycle turned the worst of the workday into the best.

Wikidata can be used to explore demographic biases in other systems (so long as you keep in mind its limitations). Here are gender balances (%age winners who are women) for some literary awards: https://w.wiki/5$BR

@ilaurie I’ve been using hashtags, but there are also some lists. See https://mastodon.social/@ryanschultz/109360179943000940

I understand why people choose CC BY NC at the thought that someone might monetize their work, but I don’t understand why they publish or post that same work with a company that monetizes their content and data.

@astrobri @jeroenbosman Yes, you're right. I was thinking about that too. I do think that the Authors Guild probably doesn't really want universities to tackle the cost of knowledge in a way that reduces prices for students. They should be careful of what they ask for. On the other hand, they can say this kind of thing because (in the US, at least), they know we won't get our #ÖER act together.

@paul4kant @mfenner @mark @gin @kelly @dbeucke @pampel @chodacki @digitaldogsbody I’m not sure that the “metrics” have been all that persuasive anyway. I think that the more interesting value of altmetrics tools has been the ability to find and document good conversations about scholarship. Maybe a federated landscape makes that a bit more difficult, but not much.

I wrote a piece for the New York Times about how scientists used Twitter during the Covid pandemic and about what comes next.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/pandemic-twitter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare