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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 10d

For those following along at home... We heard back positively from 15% of these authors within 1 day. Everyone was on board with doing this. The biggest concern is interpreting the different versions of the article for submission.

#OAweek

Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 12d

Last one. Caveats abound but for what it's worth.

#OAweek

Bar graph showing the distribution between open and close articles for the top 10 publishers.

Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 12d

We also looked at all the 'closed' articles to see which had a 'free' way to post a green OA compliant. Here's how that shook down for each stage. We are going to contact about 10% of the article authors to have them consider depositing a copy in the repository. Wish us luck.

#OAweek

funnel graph showing the end result of 63 of 650 papers as being eligible for a free green OA pathway.

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 12d

Some highlights... Over a million bucks on APCs and almost a 50/50 split on born OA versus closed.

Pie graph showing 49.9% closed versus 50.1% open.

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 12d

For #OAweek this year we published a report based on @[email protected] data that highlights how much OA we publish and how much money was spent on APCs last academic year.

elibtronic.github.io/2025_state_o...

2025 State of Scholarly Publishing

elibtronic.github.io

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 18d

hello library workers. I am also a library worker. I would like to announce that the Code4Lib North sort-of-conference is this December 3-4th at McMaster University in Hamilton. Come on by if you got the gumption. Signup/info (info still be fleshed - signup is live though) at wiki.code4lib.org/North

North - Code4Lib

wiki.code4lib.org

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 19d

New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship for a special issue entitled: Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements.

I'm one of the guest editors and I would love to see your submission. HMU if you have questions!

cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

#lis

Call for proposals: CJAL special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

cjal.ca

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Sep 15

I was on a picket line today.

Brock University Faculty Association @bufa.bsky.social · Sep 15

@bufa.bsky.social Executive stands in #solidarity with @opseusefpo.bsky.social! #onpse #StrikeSupport #SaveOurColleges

BUFA Executive stands in solidarity with @OPSEU, joining the picket lines at the Niagara College (Welland campus) today.

@OPSEU members walking the picket line today at Niagara College (Welland campus).

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Sep 5

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Aug 13

Screen shots are my love language.

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Jul 30

The worst of all bummers.

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CARL / ABRC @carl-abrc.bsky.social · Jul 22

📢Join us Aug 27 @ 1PM ET for the Canadian Repositories CoP's Article Release Party kickoff! 🌟

We’ll explore how institutional repositories can better support community-based research, featuring a talk by Robyn Hall (MacEwan).

🔗 Details and registration: www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Jul 21

According to some DOI analysis that I'm doing, someone at MPOW has published over 200 'journal articles' that have a CrossRef DOI. This is year to date!

github.com/elibtronic/g...

Histogram of author article frequency. Most authors are at 1-2 papers. There is one outlier that is 200 plus!

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is a glass plate slide I saw at the museum in Amsterdam. I like how pagan it is.

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Jun 29

Apparently the point of this is that you are not supposed to like the food and abundance, but to look at Jesus giving a sermon in the background.

*Jim eyes to camera*

Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Jun 29

It says it is wrong right in the stupid picture! Who is gonna buy this crap? NM, I think I know.

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Chris Plummer @chrisplummer.bsky.social · May 24

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · May 21

Read this last week. Was great to see a section about Library and Info Lit stuff.

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · May 8

I'm finally reading chat box transcript... Thanks this link btw.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39975491/

Algorithmic indexing in MEDLINE frequently overlooks important concepts and may compromise literature search results - PubMed

The indexing performed by the February-March 2023 calibration of the MTIA algorithm, as well as older calibrations, frequently applied irrelevant or imprecise terms to publications while neglecting to...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · May 8

Thanks for chronicling the talk!

Reading this makes me really miss the bird site days.

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rkumar2008.bsky.social @rkumar2008.bsky.social · May 6

New peer-reviewed article published:
Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University

doi.org/10.26522/bro...
#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #NewManagerialism #PublicIntellectuals

Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University | Brock Education Journal

doi.org

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rkumar2008.bsky.social @rkumar2008.bsky.social · Mar 25

Just published: Our analysis of collective agreements at Canadian universities shows significant variation in protecting academic freedom. Important implications for faculty rights and institutional governance.

Read more: doi.org/10.58188/194...

#AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation

doi.org

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Feb 27

My academic world has contracted enough that I am presenting a paper at a conference and a person that I'm quoting a bunch is giving a plenary. I'm about as niche as possible now.

www.marxintheanthropocene.com

#phdlife

Marx in the Anthropocene

Capital, Nature, Ecology, Environment: An interdisciplinary conference taking place in Venice from March 11 to 14, 2025.

www.marxintheanthropocene.com

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Feb 11

Part of my origin story I guess.

Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · Feb 11

12 months to hear a 'no' on a journal submission. The no doesn't bother me, that is part of life. 12 months is the tough part in all of this.

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