🧵 Who owns your data and what are they doing with it? 🤔 Sarah Lamdan's 2022 conversation with @HJoseph.bsky.social has only grown more urgent with time. We're revisiting DATA CARTELS on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/dat... #Books

If you missed SPARC's @hjoseph.bsky.social's talk w/ @sarahlamdan.bsky.social on her book, Data Cartels, our friends at the @archive.org have saved it. Click archive.org/details/book... for a video recording or listen on major podcast platforms here: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/dat...

Book Talk: Data Cartels : Internet Archive : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Join SPARC’s Heather Joseph for a chat with author Sarah Lamdan about the companies that control & monopolize our information.In our digital world, data...

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We are grateful to US Rep. Zoe Lofgren @lofgren.house.gov for recognizing SPARC as "thoughtful advocates of open access" & entering our letter into the Congressional Record. Our core message: #OpenAccess is a remedy for publishing dysfunction — not its cause. Read here: sparcopen.org/wp-content/u...

With the full SPARC team and Steering Committee today. Just adore these people!

Great @archive.org talk btw @samuelmoore.org + @hjoseph.bsky.social abt reimagining open-access through small, sustainable, scholar-led publishing (Heather reminds us that the commercial academic journal publishing market is an $11B industry, w/ 20-40% profit margins "because of the free labor")

Publishing Beyond The Market : Internet Archive & Authors Alliance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Join author Samuel Moore in conversation with Heather Joseph as they reimagine open access through collective, scholar-led publishing.Resources shared:Chat

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📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖 Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing. 📆 Thurs Dec 4th 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951... @SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

“Good taste?” Really? Ouch….

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If you're a researcher from an institution that didn't have the good taste to subscribe to Altmetric, and you have a research project in the scientometric area for which our data could be useful, apply here for free access to our data: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/07...

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme

Theme — International Open Access Week

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Today, July 1, the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access policy goes into effect. Learn more at the new NIH policy overview web page: grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c... & get answers to your FAQs here: grants.nih.gov/faqs#/public....

The NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect today, July 1, 2025. We and @sparcopen.bsky.social have made a form to collect challenges or questions faced by authors, librarians and their institutions in complying with the new federal public access policies: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/01/n...

NIH Public Access Policy: Implementation and Feedback

The NIH Public Access Policy is in effect as of July 1, 2025. In response, Authors Alliance and SPARC have created a form to collect information about challenges or questions faced by authors, libr…

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So important…publishers once again demonstrating that they prioritize profits over researchers being able to communicate the results of their own work.

COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories@coar-repositories.bsky.social · last yr.

Push back: "Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... @coalitions-oa.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social @sparc-eu.bsky.social @carl-abrc.bsky.social @libereurope.bsky.social @wacren.bsky.social

Quite a vote confidence for the immediate, free sharing of taxpayer funded research today: www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

For those of you working with us closely: If you haven't been in Mattermost in a while, please check the urgent channel if you have a few minutes today. I know it is a holiday for many, but we have some datasets that could potentially use rescue.

Follow @apduorg.bsky.social to see what it means to take action on public data access!

APDU@apduorg.bsky.social · last yr.

URGENT: On Monday 4/21 of the National Assessment Governing Board is meeting and there's an opportunity for public comment. *Written* comments MUST be received 5pm ET TODAY. For verbal comments (Zoom), you MUST register in advance. Links in 🧵

So gratifying to see ALA step up and go to bat to IMLS: www.wordsandmoney.com/time-is-of-t...

‘Time is of the Essence’: ALA Sues Trump Administration to Save IMLS

The ALA suit comes just days after a coalition of state attorneys general filed a similar federal lawsuit in Rhode Island also seeking to stop the Trump administration’s dismantling of the IMLS.

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If you want to do something meaningful, a great place to start would be to support the crucial work of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive: A peek inside the busy home of the Internet Archive www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

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This a very bad move…cutting high-quality society published journals instead of ditching over-priced commercial journal bundles at a US federal agency library: www.science.org/content/arti...

A gut punch…but the work to ensure openness and transparency in our government will continue wherever we can collectively make it happen… americalabs.org/2025/02/25/s...

Statement on Termination of Open Government Federal Advisory Committee

Trump Attacks Open GovernmentGSA Terminates Open Government Federal Advisory Committee FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Daniel Schuman, American Governance Institute February 25, 2025 Washington, DC –…

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Immensely proud to play a small part in securing this landmark declaration on access to knowledge as a human right and to be a part of this global community. #DiamondOpenAccess

This is a *really* disappointing outcome…these funds could be used to support local, community driven research communication efforts rather than continuing to feed commercial profits. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few

Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig…

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"Adopting Secondary Publishing Rights in Canada will significantly improve public access to research, strengthen Canada's global research impact, and create a more equitable scholarly publishing landscape." Great work looking at the opportunites of Secondary Publishing Rights in a Canadian context.

We created Privacy Badger to be an easy way to block any tracker or ad that violates the principle of user consent. Learn more about the tool at privacybadger.org and give @privacybadger.bsky.social a follow!

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Privacy Badger@privacybadger.org · 2y ago

Hello Bluesky! Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers. To install or to learn more, visit privacybadger.org

Love seeing @curvenote.com featured for our work integrating Research Organization Registry id's (ROR). Scientific metadata initiatives like ROR, ORCiD, DOI, etc. sound dry but they're EVERYTHING for making science easier to search. @researchorgs.bsky.social

Case Study: Next-Generation Publishing Platform Curvenote and ROR

In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use…

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As a newbie to this platform, I found this super-helpful: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

How to get started with academic Bluesky

As prominent individual and institutional accounts eschew Twitter/X for new social media platforms, Bluesky is having a moment. Drawing on the experience of colleagues on the platform, Ned Potter, …

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Open Source Post Training is going strong! In last 2 weeks, we got data or recipes released for OpenCoder, SmolLM-2, Orca Agent Instruct, and Tülu 3. Read it, learn, and iterate:

Anyone who is concerned about the way AI is exacerbating social and economic problems should be citing this report. Excellent work from @kevindeliban.bsky.social and @techtonicjustice.bsky.social

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"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI" www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines... this is a damning report

A giant welcome for the @flaminghydra.com debut of @sarahlamdan.bsky.social, author of DATA CARTELS and supercool librarian and law nerd, today in conversation with @littlewow.bsky.social on trust, publishing, libraries, copyright, and sanity, only imagine flaminghydra.com/issue-139/#t...

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

MetaROR is here! The free, open peer review platform by @rorinstitute.bsky.social & @aimosinc.bsky.social, aims to change how research is reviewed and shared. Their Publish-Review-Curate model makes the publication process faster and more open. Details: researchonresearch.org/introducing-...

One important motivation for open access was the lack of transparency from publishers around subscription prices, but it sounds like they're being just as opaque with APCs. This is a really helpful piece of work showing the huge sums paid to commercial publishers in APCs.

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci