Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.
This is interesting and useful - by @lisalibrarian.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/28/c...
Categorizing Open Access Business Models - The Scholarly Kitchen
Models for funding open access journal article publishing can be sorted into three categories, organized by who pays and what they pay for: transactional, collective action, and subvention.
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I'm fascinated that the shadow libraries get sympathy but Anthropic gets anger bc they used the shadow library. www.ft.com/content/e6d1...
The race to collect every book ever written
When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution
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If you’ve never recalled a book from yourself, are you even an academic?
Monica C. Schneider@poliscimonica.bsky.social · 2w agoPro-tip: If you are looking for a book, don't spend so much time on the library site or googling for a pdf or ordering it on Amazon until after you've looked through your own shelf.
1983 I paid the University of London Library to do an electronic search of The Philosopher’s Index for every philosophy paper with ‘Exploitation’ in title or abstract for my MPhil thesis. It was done over phone lines to California, in the middle of the night, when phone charges were cheaper.
sjvn@sjvn.bsky.social · 3w agoMy first search engine.
There are people who decry the corporate and proprietary homogenisation of the internet and personal computing; people who yearn for community-led alternatives. When you point out that those alternatives exist and all they have to do is use them, they say, "No, not like that."
jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 3w agonoticing an increasingly common phenomenon of people online who hate their torment nexus ass propietary software but for some reason refuse to even entertain the idea of learning to use a non-torment alternative.
Cue publishers mentioning a VoR benefit that the source files aren't published? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared
Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions.
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SN flips a journal to open, and the associate editors resign.
Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 4w ago"We understand that the decision to introduce APCs was not your own but was imposed by corporate management, and we are sorry that our resignation will put you in a difficult position. Nonetheless, the APCs that Springer Nature will introduce [...] are irreconcilable with our vision of science."
Sharing my new venture. I'm excited to expand my work with scholarly publishers and platforms, facilitating deeper integration of library perspectives in their work. librarianintheloop.com
Librarian in the Loop LLC
Independent advisory services helping scholarly publishers and platforms access trusted library perspectives to inform their decisions.
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"So the 1% list reproduces the same prestige hierarchy with the same biases it claims to replace." Of course, it could be that they really just are THE BEST. Or it could be that this is a bad ranking 😂
Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · last mo.I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...
Champaign-Urbana folks/visitors, my retirement party is tomorrow, Wednesday, June 24, 2-4 pm in the Main Library, room 428. Please come by and have some cake!
Apparently, Chrome decided that if I had finished purging all the paper files in my office before my end-of-month retirement, I probably didn't need any of the tabs I had open either. #lolsob
Everyone in schol comm, please repeat after me: Standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; stand . . .
📢 Academics & journal editors: I'm working on a story about donors using financial intermediaries to fund studies "anonymously". - Is this common in your field? - Does your uni have rules to prevent this? - Would your journal accept a declaration of an "anonymous donation"? 📱sehill.11 on Signal
@ryancordell.org of interest I imagine
Dr Alison Ray@liber-ray.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe had so much fun on our @rarebookschool.bsky.social Evidence in Handpress-Era Books course that my classmate and I got matching tattoo souvenirs from the 1630 edition of Robert Greene’s The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay printed by Elizabeth Allde in London! 📖🎉
Earlier this week, I shared my conversation with Todd Toler as he takes on a new role at Ithaka S+R about the future of scholarship in the AI world. Such exciting opportunities are ahead! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/10/b...
Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler - The Scholarly Kitchen
A conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs.
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Universities aren't great at compromising when they form a consortia to do tech things, so, instead, they spend lots of money on commercial tools with limitations they wouldn't accept in a consortia arrangement?
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 2mo agoSo, naive question about these campuses that pay OpenAI $13mil/yr. Why don’t they pour that money into a cluster running the strongest available open-weight model, with API and interactive options. And if the answer is “overhead,” why aren’t we collaborating?
I didn't realize until today that a previously preprinted manuscript wasn't eligible for posting on verixiv. One of the authorship checks: "confirms authors have not submitted the preprint elsewhere" (verixiv.org/for-authors/...)
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My essay “New Antiquities” & @laurenfklein.bsky.social’s “Why Literary Studies Must Embrace Computing” don’t EXIST yet are cited in this “peer reviewed” essay on AI and DH . Guess we didn’t lead the “cultural turn” in DH either! 🤬https://knowledgeableresearch.com/index.php/1/article/download/697/614
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Scaling up! "The acquisition deepens Wiley’s proprietary content position for use in AI and data analytics, at a moment when demand for trusted peer-reviewed research content is accelerating rapidly as corporations build out AI models and applications."
"A publisher that has developed a library relations strategy has built a substantial organizational infrastructure for learning from the library community." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/w...
Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy - The Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers that lack a deliberate library relations strategy are making consequential decisions without important and useful community perspectives.
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This is scholarly misconduct. We have seen university presidents removed from their positions for far less. Why are we saying it's just an editing error if "it was AI" The lack of accountability is astonishing
Sarah Weinman@sarahweinman.com · 3mo agoGrimly hilarious lede of the week so far from @benmullin.bsky.social: "The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I."
"The publishers who invest in library relations are making a bet that trust is a strategic asset." @lisalibrarian.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/w...
Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy - The Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers that lack a deliberate library relations strategy are making consequential decisions without important and useful community perspectives.
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NEW TODAY: A few thoughts for publishers on developing "a library relations strategy — a deliberate, sustained commitment to engaging with the library community in ways that are substantive, reciprocal, and structurally supported, operating alongside sales relationships."
Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy - The Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers that lack a deliberate library relations strategy are making consequential decisions without important and useful community perspectives.
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Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/w...
Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy - The Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers that lack a deliberate library relations strategy are making consequential decisions without important and useful community perspectives.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
For as long as I've been attending conference sessions, webinars, etc., about preprint servers, the suggestions for improving them are all to make them function more like journals. Slowly, we will approach convergence?
Juan Pablo Alperin@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 3mo agoNice to see this interest our work on preprint moderation (led by @nataschachtena.bsky.social): "Why preprint servers are increasing moderation — and what that means for researchers". www.nature.com/articles/d41... [archive without paywall here: archive.is/x98qF]
Figure 25 shows a significant drop in the importance of open-access investments compared to three years ago. sr.ithaka.org/publications...
US Library Survey 2025 - Ithaka S+R
The US Library Survey examines how library leaders conceptualize their work—what they prioritize, how they navigate decision-making, and how they align the library with the goals of their parent insti...
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Figure 4 of this newly released report worries me. E.g., only 75% of library directors agree they are "confident in my ability to articulate the library’s value proposition in a way that aligns with the strategic goals of the college/university administration" (sr.ithaka.org/publications...).
US Library Survey 2025 - Ithaka S+R
The US Library Survey examines how library leaders conceptualize their work—what they prioritize, how they navigate decision-making, and how they align the library with the goals of their parent insti...
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