hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Many flavours of open, background in media/TV & cultural studies • working @ @Thoth_metadata@hcommons.social previously project manager Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (@copim@hcommons.social) project • co-editor @ CSTonline
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Open-Access-Tage 2025 #oat25 has just wrapped up, and our @copim@hcommons.social and @openbookcollect@mastodon.social colleague @joe_dev@mastodon.social has already written up a lovely blog post summarising these splendid last three days ❤ @OATage@openbiblio.social
"Open access from the bottom up: Three open access days"
https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-access-from-the-bottom-up/release/2
Excellent piece in today's LSE Impact blog by my @copim@hcommons.social colleague @simonxix@zirk.us on the recent British Library hack, and why this is just the tip of the iceberg of a completely devalued and underfunded landscape of HE IT (both in HE libraries and beyond) that has been zombified by years and years of outsourcing to cloud services that no-one actually bothers to test for any security-related flaws any more ...
"the institutional devaluing of library technical skills consolidates the power of corporate software suppliers. However, I would further argue that it’s a symptom of genericisation in university management, whereby senior managers value generic management skills more highly than specialised library knowledge. [...] Instead of investing in expanding the profits of third-party corporations, UK higher education libraries could be investing in people and in building their own technical expertise for resilient IT infrastructures and library systems." 👏👏👏
Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week!
On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on
Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books
and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B@mastodonapp.uk , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku.
Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a library publisher, on the varied issues related to book #metadata and #dissemination - perspectives that will touch upon questions such as “What is a book?”, and discuss issues of ingest pipelines and adoption of #PIDs and controlled vocabularies in the books space.
Panellists will also seek to touch upon the benefits of, and potential barriers to, establishing practical, community-led solutions that make #OAbooks findable and re-usable within as well as outside of library systems.
Intrigued? Find out more here https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/
Generations of REF managers and admins, rejoice! Researchfish 🐟 is ceasing operations in mid-2027 ... so won't be around for the REF2029 cycle....
See, that's how it's done!
Congrats to the editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs, one "of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy", for their decision to leave Wiley and start their own, Diamond OA journal with @openlibhums@hcommons.social 👏
"We take this step because we believe that scholarly journals—including our own—serve important purposes, and that these purposes are not well-served by commercial publishing."
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/22/editors-at-philosophy-will-launch-new-oa-journal/
My @copim@hcommons.social colleague @ScholTom@hcommons.social explaining the Opening The Future model as part of the #Munin2023 workshop "Getting Out From the Back of the Sofa: Sustainable Funding for Open Access Books"