RE: https://akademienl.social/@chartgerink/117195105240350205 "So I am sending out a warning signal for the second time: If you want @ResearchEquals to persist, it will take more support. Concretely, the support will need to come in the next 9 months. [...] With so much money slushing around in […]

📣 Event announcement! Join us for the launch of Noëlle Rohde's Marked in conversation with Andrea Mennicken and Cris Shore, followed by a drinks reception. 📅 Thur, Oct 8 🕝 5PM - 7PM 📍 Old Anthropology Library @lseanthropology.bsky.social 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book Launch: Marked (Noëlle Rohde)

Numbers are a crucial mediator of how we perceive and understand the world.

eventbrite.co.uk

Serious kudos to the Royal Institution (aka The RI). Lovely of them to provide an excellent air-conditioned working space with free WiFi in uber-expensive central London, during the summer holidays. Makes it easy for parents to get work done whilst the kids […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Skilling-up on Wikimedia Commons. My 1st time using the Locator-tool gadget to correctly mark-up the location of where I took a photo from, that is already on Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Locator-tool

Re-reading the Anna’s Archive analysis of WorldCat data to determine which books are “rare” (only a single copy held in just one library) https://annas-archive.gl/blog/worldcat-editions-and-holdings.html 4.72 milllion (59% of 8million) are tier 1 rare.

Worldcat editions and holdings release

Another step towards a TODO list of rare books.

annas-archive.gl

Anyone here have good knowledge of how legal deposit _actually_ works in the United States? I'm a little alarmed to read this HN comment: "The Library of Congress only selects around half of published books to be permanently held." [Is that true?] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384299 […]

me: define the word 'stationary' (for my daughter) Google AI overview: Stationery is a noun that means writing materials. This includes paper, envelopes, pens, pencils, and notebooks. Always interesting to see examples in which LLMs fail at really simple tasks.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117111325729528189 Today's must read article...

Papers and journals originally published by Pensoft now appearing on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform eg At ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S1314694725000429 At Pensoft (original): https://natureconservation.pensoft.net/article/160386/ Is there a press […]

I'm not feeling very tech-savvy today... Could anyone help me get around Imgur's block of users in the UK? I'm seeking access to a GIF of a book spine being cut off: https://imgur.com/gallery/book-spine-cutter-paper-recycling-centre-BenH9tg If you're outside of the UK you can just click on […]

Really weirded out by this sudden wave of scholarly publishing industry posts about 'trust' and 'trust signals'. Trust is really really the wrong word here. The publishers _want_ you to blindly trust everything they publish... so naturally they are talking about trust a lot. What we actually […]

Uh-oh: I just got an email saying that @CenterforOpenScience will be phasing out the "project workflow" of the #OpenScienceFramework (it will remain as a site for planning #preregistration). Using this as a repository for files, code, results and tools has been a major part of my research […]

The STM Publishing News website appears to have been hacked. I'm seeing lots of clearly injected spam/advertising. See e.g. this journal transfer post with lots of added injected statements like "The lawyers from www.phillipslawoffices.com/traumatic-brain-injury/ are the best to deal with […]

There are definitely benefits to being a smaller sized university press publisher... For example when @lsepress.bsky.social puts out a book I actually pay attention to it a) it's open access so I can actually read it b) they're not publishing a flood of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Twenty years of Pandoc https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html

Cool to see Arcadia up there in the $5million PLUS bracket, awarded to the Wikimedia Endowment https://wikimediaendowment.org/

Headline text: "Transformative agreements move to the centre of library strategy, report finds" ... small text near the bottom... "The research was funded through a contribution from Wiley." 🚮 […]

Arise, Sir Jude Bellingham!

Miserably hot here in my part of London. The temperature will go _down_ to 27C at 11pm tonight. By midnight it might even go down to 25C. Tooooo hotttt 🥵

RANT AHEAD I am miffed. We had a submission at Orbit that we went to great pains to review. It was extremely challenging to find readers. Our internal team read it, too. It was through to acceptance. And then the author pulled out because their university demanded a Q1 or Q2 ranked journal. I […]

I love to start my day with a bit of heart-stopping technical work. Ha! But Knowledge Commons Sites and Groups are now operating on WordPress 7.0. That sounds trivial, but with tens of thousands of Sites and users, we can't mess up on a big upgrade like […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

RE: https://techhub.social/@BL_DigiSchol/116885602067082944 nearly 1000 days offline, but it's back now!

🔒 A 19-year-old cybercriminal was caught despite using a VPN across multiple countries - because Windows has a tracking number built into every install that a VPN can't hide. Peter Stokes, arrested in Finland in April and extradited to the US last week, is tied to Scattered Spider, the hacking […]

CAMRA's new report on the state of beer, brewing and hospitality in the UK is essential reading; not just for beer drinkers, but consumers in general as well as critics of globalisation https://camra.org.uk/beer-report #RealAle #CAMRA

CAMRA | Beer in the UK — a CAMRA consumer report

The UK brewing industry has been quietly taken over. A consumer-focused report from CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale.

camra.org.uk

Can we afford the future? Last week at #LIBER202, @cameronneylon and I presented out open source analytics pipeline projecting library consortium costs into the future under different scenarios. Using data from #CAUL and #Bibsam we show how publicly […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

peak dystopia: "As an example, the most expensive agreement for Karolinska Institutet was with Elsevier, which constituted 46% of the total journal budget" 😱😱😱 Bibliodiversity? Nah, we'll just support Elsevier. https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.760

It’s all about the money: financial aspects of transformative agreements and their impact on two university libraries in Sweden | Insights

insights.uksg.org

Exciting to see LA Referencia do semantic search: "Search in your language. Discover research across languages." (with a friendly reminder that semantic search leverages AI techniques including NLP, ML, and embeddings...) https://la-referencia-ioi.github.io/lareferencia-semantic-demo/ […]

🎉 New and freely available today: the Preserving E-Theses Resource Pack! Created by the DPC as part of the Arcadia and Research England-funded Open Book Futures project, the Pack offers practical guidance, videos, and resources to help universities and […] [Original post on digipres.club]

I didn't even know the phrase 'Low-Altitude Economy' existed, nor did I immediately understand what it would be (it's about drones) but I see MDPI already has a journal dedicated to it!!! Ahead of the curve there MDPI, kudos 🙃 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/lae

TO REFORM SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING, UNIVERSITIES MUST BE PUBLISHERS https://warwickanderson.substack.com/p/to-reform-scientific-publishing-universities?r=b9mrk&triedRedirect=true

TO REFORM SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING, UNIVERSITIES MUST BE PUBLISHERS

Giving universities the benefits of, and responsibility for, their researchers’ published work

warwickanderson.substack.com