Katie Hughes
@acraftylibrarian.bsky.social
Open Access Librarian living in the UK. Working in Open Access and academic publishing. May qualify as a yarn hoarder. Thoughts are my own. she/her
Honestly hard to know which one to cheer for in this situation.
Delta Think@deltathink.bsky.social · 2mo ago⚖️ Another AI copyright lawsuit has entered the courts, but this one adds a wrinkle with particular relevance to educational publishing: textbooks. publishingperspectives.com/2026/08/u-s-... #Copyright #AI #Publishing #EdTech #HigherEd #ScholComm
As a historian: grateful to the archivists, librarians, and colleagues who have freely shared documents, books, and ideas and helped me to understand. (2/2)
Pumped to join @chrismarcum.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social to watch a live #PeerReview of this #preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025... The administration wouldn't let this paper be formally published so #openscience to the rescue!
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Against my will, I've been reunited with my long-term enemy: the JIF. This time around, does anyone know about _legitimate_ writing on JIF variance / impact on it? I've been suspecting it's all just reading tea leaves, BUT I'll try and do my research and not jump to conclusions!
Ok Google, your current soccer animation is driving me nuts and making me mildly nauseous. This is probably the time to start using a different search engine. Anyone have suggestions?
Traditional metrics capture academic visibility but miss how research travels beyond academia. The challenge is not measure more but to measure in ways that illuminate rather than distort.
I have donated to Wikipedia. I will do so no longer, unless they actually fix this. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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I'm all for funders standing up to publishers. However, the OA librarian in me sees a problem: allowing a 6-month embargo on a paper but demanding that the open version also has a CC BY license will cause real problems to implement if your institution doesn't have a rights retention strategy.
Theo@earthowned.bsky.social · 6mo agoCancer Research UK is fed up of paying too much for open access publishing so they are completely stopping funding this activity: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals." Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
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I stopped buying off Amazon a long time ago and found I can live quite happily without them.
Aubrey Hirsch@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 12mo agoDid you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
It's that time of year again! Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 Conference Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, and accessible […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]
Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025
Anne: budget uncertainty is possibly even worse than budget cuts. Makes it harder to commit to some of the smaller committments, particularly as they are easier to get out of than the parts of our locked in budgets. Need to stop multi year deals so we have budget flexibility. #OASPA2025
We all know that publishing #OpenAccess increases citations and views, but there is also evidence that OA content has helped to shorten PhD studies from 6 years to 4 years in France. - Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri #OASPA2025
CHALLENGE in China - researchers are pursing high impact journals not OA journals. There is a white list – containing about 1600 OA journals. These are the ones Chinese scholars want to publish in. This is an issue that will hinder full OA in China. #OASPA2025
USEFUL breakdown of the process a large organisation underwent to adopt rights retention - presented by Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social at #OASPA2025 screen grab here but better version at www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...
Poster presentation done. Only 5 mins but almost more daunting then a full session. Introducing EMBL's RRS to #OASPA2025
Good thread 👇 on Hannah Hope's talk at #OASPA2025
hyperbolbri@astrobri.bsky.social · last yr.Hannah Hope from Wellcome, and the forever reminder that in many parts of the world, OA isn't something that happens "after" (for a fee), but is the starting point of publishing. #OASPA2025 - paraphrasing, but the convos about a small global minority (US/UK/EU publishing) sucks up all the oxygen.
SHIFT: Wellcome 2021 OA policy had unexpected result- policy was perpetuating existing inequality in research ecosystem. So they added preprints to versions of articles accepted, create space for institutional rights retention, redirect funds from TAs towards wider ecosystem. Hannah Hope #OASPA2025
After Wellcome changed their #openaccess policy in 2021, they saw that publishers modify their workflows to detect WT funded papers and closed certain routes to publication. They also gave exceptions to "prestigious" authors while ECRs were not given the same opportunities 🤯 #OASPA2025
Question about why don't we just have article level metrics? With the introduction of social media, this would be easily gameable. Single metrics are a fallacy we need a cloud of different metrics to assess. - Bernd Pulverer
What publishers can do to help change research assessment; Focus on contribution instead of authorship, acknowledge that the paper doesn't show the whole research process, focus on process not results - Yensi Flores Bueso, University College Cork & Global Young Academy #OASPA2025
Strongly agree: We need to make OA “undeniable,” to the point where it sells itself. (Adapted from Stefan Tochev, MDPI) #OASPA2025
To sum up some of the feelings in the panel of OA APC based publishers: all are struggling to get support from funders and libraries to push through barriers, feels like you are being penalised for getting their first. - Catriona MacCallum #OASPA2025
There seems to be a general agreement that publishers need to be better at describing what they do and what their services are to provide evidence for their pricing. But they also need to talk to customers to ensure these are the services they actually want. #OASPA2025
"We will never compete with the big corporations but we ask what will happen if we weren't there." Suzanne Dumouchel, OPERAS #OSFair25
