2025 was a year of 🩺 #listening, 🧪 #research, and 🧗 #scaling for LibLynx, and we've got big plans in progress for 2026! Here are 3 key metrics that reflect our achievements in the last year: www.liblynx.com/news/liblynx... #yearinreview #2025review

LibLynx by the Numbers: Looking Back at 2025 - LibLynx

Last year was a big one for LibLynx! As we reflect on 2025 and prepare for a new year ahead, we are proud of our many achievements.

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"Market Sizing Update 2025: Has #OA recovered its mojo?" A very interesting overview of the scholarly article market from consultants #DeltaThink, with some nice read-at-a-glance charts. Seems the ol' paywall isn't going away anytime soon! www.deltathink.com/news-views-m...

AI Scrapers vs Wikibase: Analysis of AI webscrapers traffic on our Wikibase instance, an interesting view of one site’s own analysis of bots and their attempts to curb them. We can help! semlab.io/blog/ai-scra...

Analysis of AI webscrapers traffic on our Wikibase instance

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"How to spot fake scientists" from @nature.com, www.nature.com/articles/d41... -- which offers a great example of why #scholarly #publishing needs solutions like the #STM researcher identity framework, stm-assoc.org/new-digital-...

How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers

Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.

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Are #bots "evil"? Read more about the #botwars we're facing in #scholcomms on our blog! www.liblynx.com/news/bot-war...

Bot wars: Will AI scraping change the Scholarly landscape forever? - LibLynx

AI-driven bots are impacting live delivery and open access, and poisoning the well of usage stats. How should the scholarly community react?

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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)@doabooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Today at #Charleston2025 @nielsstern.bsky.social will be participating in a panel about AI bots alongside Tim Lloyd @liblynxllc.bsky.social, Tim McGeary @duke-university.bsky.social & Eric Hellman, Free Ebook Foundation @gluejar.com We're looking forward to this timely discussion!

Read more about the #bot wars #scholcomms is facing in this post! www.liblynx.com/news/bot-war... #botwars

Bot wars: Will AI scraping change the Scholarly landscape forever? - LibLynx

AI-driven bots are impacting live delivery and open access, and poisoning the well of usage stats. How should the scholarly community react?

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OAPEN Foundation@oapenbooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Analysis by @liblynxllc.bsky.social shows that 66% of website traffic is from unknown bot activity

We achieved ISO 27001 certification! The international gold standard for info security! Not a milestone reached by very many in the #scholarly community. Read more about what it means for clients & what we learned along the way. #infosecurity #iso27001 #scholcomms www.liblynx.com/news/liblynx...

LibLynx achieves ISO 27001 Certification - LibLynx

LibLynx achieves ISO 27001 certification, the international standard for information security management systems

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Join us at next week's @nisoinfo.bsky.social Plus Global event! @michelleurberg.bsky.social will speak to standardizing #usage reporting from aggregators, and Tim Lloyd will address the challenge of leveraging emerging digital #identity infrastructures. Don't miss it! www.liblynx.com/news/liblynx...

LibLynx presenting on Analytics, Identity & Access at NISO Plus 2025 Global - LibLynx

Tim Lloyd and Michelle Urberg on presenting on Identity, Access, and Analytics at next week's 2025 NISO Plus Global conference

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Phase of the week: "algorithmic disgorgement," or the deletion of #algorithms developed using illegally collected data. This article explores what this means for how #AI models are built: iapp.org/news/a/priva...

“...a community is only as strong as its next generation of leaders,” and we're proud to have played our part in meeting SSP's Generations Fund goals! #GenerationsFund www.liblynx.com/news/ssp-gen... @mdolechek.bsky.social @michelleurberg.bsky.social @lyconrad.bsky.social

SSP Generations Fund: Partly Powered by LibLynx - LibLynx

We’re proud to support the SSP Generations Fund, which is now partly powered by LibLynx thanks to our $5,000 contribution.

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Guest Post: When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/07/g...

Guest Post: When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do - The Scholarly Kitchen

AI-enabled discovery and summarization tools seem like magic to end users, but for publishers it looks like disintermediation.

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Meet us at #SSP2025 in Baltimore this week! We’ll be chatting about innovations in usage data & measuring with your heart. Come find Tim, John, @michelleurberg.bsky.social & @lyconrad.bsky.social at the Previews Session, Poster Preview & networking events – or slide into our DMs!

Join us next Wed May 14 @ 11am EDT to explore threats to our information & data in Managing Risk in the Information Community! W/ @rickanderson.bsky.social Tim Lloyd ( @liblynxllc.bsky.social ) Amy Pawloski (Ohio LINK) & @jillmwo.bsky.social . FREE for NISO members: niso.org/events/manag...

Congratulations to our CEO & co-founder, Tim Lloyd, on his election to the SSP Board of Directors! Tim joins jenniferaregala.bsky.social, Beth Craanen, and Willa Liburd Tavernier as newly minted Board Members-at-Large, & Damita Snow as President-Elect! www.sspnet.org/community/ne...

SSP Welcomes Newly Elected Board Members for 2025-2026 Term

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 2025-2026 election results are in!

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Interesting piece from @sphcow.bsky.social about the future convergence of how browsers manage identity and payments 🤔 sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/04/29/w...

Web Payments and Digital Identity are Having a Moment

Web payments and digital identity are colliding in the browser. Here’s why it matters—and what’s coming next.

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How can you protect your organization & information practices in a time of disruption & uncertainty? Join @rickanderson.bsky.social Tim Lloyd (@liblynxllc.bsky.social) & Amy Pawlowski (OhioLink) on May 14 for Managing Risk in the Information Community! Free to NISO members: niso.org/events/manag...

New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/21/n...

New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data - The Scholarly Kitchen

Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within your data.

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Join us Wed May 14 at 11am EDT for Managing Risk in the Information Community! Speakers @rickanderson.bsky.social Tim Lloyd (@liblynxllc.bsky.social) & Amy Pawlowski (OhioLink) will explore how to protect your organization & information practices. Free to NISO members: www.niso.org/events/manag...

Tracking #OA usage is hard! Exciting to see this analysis of open #monographs growing out of the @oapenbooks.bsky.social initiative!

Open Access Tracking Project@oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

Tracking the Use of Open Educational Resources Sounds Simple. It Isn’t. | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/tracking-the-use-of-oers-sounds-simple

Interesting post about bot activity from the perspective of OA books with ideas to deal with bot usage dragging down impact metrics, including Cloudflare's AI-generated maze of junk that it can send AI-bots to feed on so they don't disrupt real users! go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-b...

AI bots are destroying Open Access

There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, ...

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Library consortia play a critical role, but are ignored by traditional #openaccess #usage reports. We're happy to announce consortial reporting is now part of Touchstone, our unified #analytics solution for publishers, delivered in partnership with TheIPregistry.org. www.liblynx.com/news/solved-...

SOLVED: reporting open access usage by library consortia - LibLynx

Reporting on open access usage by library consortia is now available in Touchstone, LibLynx's unified usage analytics solution.

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Join @michelleurberg.bsky.social & @athenahoeppener.bsky.social as they explore Improving the Kludge: Complexities of Open Access User Metrics at #NISOPlus25! There's still time to register: nisoplusbaltimore25.sched.com/event/1olI8/... niso.plus