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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 17h

Digital Transformation at Scale: How Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand Transformed 400,000 Pages of Department of Internal Affairs Corporate Records www.desktopimaging.co.nz/post/digital... #GLAMS

Digital Transformation at Scale: Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand Case Study

How Archives New Zealand digitised 400,000 pages of corporate records with Desktop Imaging—on time, on budget, and fully compliant.

www.desktopimaging.co.nz

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Research Data Alliance Europe @rdaeurope.bsky.social · 15h

🚀 We're kicking off day 3 of #IDW2025!

Spot the #RDATIGER supported WG sessions today exploring best practices for collecting and managing drone data, and bridging #AI international policy and practice!

Join us in-person and online: tinyurl.com/nhuxbchn

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

"Controlled Digital Lending Is Still Not Dead; It Just Got a New Job: Saving Interlibrary Loan from Tariff Chaos" open.substack.com/pub/copyrigh...

Controlled Digital Lending Is Still Not Dead; It Just Got a New Job: Saving Interlibrary Loan from Tariff Chaos

Because apparently the "Trade War" is eating interlibrary loan and our print collections.

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SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 16h

Kick off #OAweek25 by tuning into this Oct. 20 online session at 8 am Eastern hosted by the International Science Council w/ speakers from Erudit, the Royal Society on S2O, Academy of Science of South Africa, CLASCO & InterPore Journal. Register now. council.science/events/ownin...

Owning Our Knowledge: Non-Commercial Pathways for Open Access Publishing - International Science Council

Overview As part of International Open Access Week 2025, the International Science Council (ISC) invites you to an online session exploring community-led

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

A candid and transparent postmortem of two technical incidents we've had on Knowledge Commons recently, brightened up at the end with a summary of the good work we're doing in moving development forward.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/14/d...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 1d

"Navigating a Reconciliation between Academic Freedom, Copyright and Open Science"

Nice piece in @verfassungsblog.de by Christina Angelopoulos.

verfassungsblog.de/twists-and-t...

Twists and Turns

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 1d

💥New: Research security policies risk a “stockyard paradox” that may weaken what they aim to protect

✍️Caroline S. Wagner & Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr

#AcademicSky #ResearchSecurity #ResearchPolicy

Research security policies risk a “stockyard paradox” that may weaken what they aim to protect - Impact of Social Sciences

Research policy is increasingly focused on “security” and the protection of intellectual property, but what if these policies damage what they seek to protect?

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...

Report on librarians' barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books

Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...

openbookcollective.pubpub.org

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.bsky.social · 1d

I played a small role in this and am very proud :)

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

YES! This is such excellent news. Utrecht University now supports Knowledge Commons.

PLEASE ask YOUR library today if they will consider supporting us. We are free to all to use, but we NEED university support to make that possible.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/13/u...

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 4d

HUMANS REQUIRED: “If 2022 was about the promise of AI-enhanced tools, 2025 was about grappling with AI’s pervasive, unpredictable, and often opaque integration into the peer review ecosystem.” scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/24/g...

Guest Post – How the AI Debate Has Changed in Just a Few Short Years - The Scholarly Kitchen

Tony Alves reflects on the 2025 Peer Review Congress and the rapid evolution of discussions about AI and peer review since 2022.

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC https://sparcopen.org/impact-story/funders-roll-out-next-gen-open-policies/

Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC

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Eerie-tosthenes @pentathlos.bsky.social · 2d

The cost of "AI" not stacking up for datacentre ROIC.... not being able to turn off tools or functions using "AI" that *I* choose is frustrating me to tears on a regular basis.
pracap.com/global-cross...
pracap.com/an-ai-addend...

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 4d

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...

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Eerie-tosthenes @pentathlos.bsky.social · 2d

#academicsky

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 3d

coalition of Australian creators and book industry organisations strongly oppose the Productivity Commission’s proposal for a text and data mining exception for #AI training

‘It’s not copy-charity. It’s copyright’: Authors oppose copyright exception for AI training at Senate Inquiry - Australian Society of Authors

Creators and book industry organisations attended a Senate Inquiry hearing to oppose the proposal for a copyright exception for AI training.

www.asauthors.org.au

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Eerie-tosthenes @pentathlos.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Leadership" has an idea.

Megan All Hallows' Eve 🦇 @meganeve.bsky.social · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Job logged with IT"

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

"Getting a DOI on personal blog posts is technically challenging, but possible using services such as The Rogue Scholar (https://docs.rogue-scholar.org/)." https://doi.org/10.1007/s44186-024-00287-w

What is Rogue Scholar? – Rogue Scholar Documentation

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 7d

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress

The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 4d

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week, welcome to Bluesky @dorothywaugh.bsky.social - Head of Workforce Development at the DPC for all your training and skills needs.

a bald man is smiling with the words welcome aboard behind him

Alt: a bald man is smiling with the words welcome aboard behind him

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 6d

Join us for #OAWeek!

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social

🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST

🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX

Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 4d

Preserving the past in real time — that’s our 24/7 #livestream 📡
📥 Weekdays (7:30 AM–Midnight PT): watch microfiche scanning in action
📼 When scanning pauses: curated archival video keeps the stream going
All set to mellow #lofi vibes.

👀➡️ www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY...

#LiveNow #lofi

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...

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loubezuidenhout.bsky.social @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social · 4d

Want to be part of a conversation about geopolitics and Open Science? Why not join us in Leiden on the 6th of November for the workshop "Resilience in times of crisis". Registration open now (in person only). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Resilience in times of crisis: Strengthening Open Science against geopolitical pressures

The success of the Open Science movement relies on research products and infrastructures being open, accessible and sustainably curated. Recent global events, however, have illustrated the vulnerabili...

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 4d

Waiting for incentives to change in scientific publishing? We’ve got you!

I hope other funders follow suit to make the most of their research dollars

SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 4d

We just posted an impact story on policies at HHMI, Gates & Astera promoting #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Powerful signals to other funders to accelerate discovery in science. Well done @madubs.bsky.social @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @pracheeac.bsky.social! sparcopen.org/impact-story...

Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC

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joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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