Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social
Posting the prickly bits about Open (Scholarship/Access/Science/Research) & Libraries. Bodleian Open Scholarship Librarian. Social🐘&🐦 =
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
This Friday I get to go and see Offspring supported by Simple Plan. Guess what I've been editing metadata tags on our helpdesk while listening to? Turns our pop punk is VERY useful for keeping keystroke movement while bopping my head and singing along. #Milennial #PopPunk
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This Friday I get to go and see Offspring supported by Simple Plan. Guess what I've been editing metadata tags on our helpdesk while listening to? Turns our pop punk is VERY useful for keeping keystroke movement while bopping my head and singing along. #Milennial #PopPunk
It is with great pride that I can now post this:
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It is with great pride that I can now post this:
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
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Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 conference
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.
Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.
Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS)
OxFOS is an annual event for Oxford University researchers, academics, staff and students covering developments in open access and open research.
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 conference
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.
Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.
Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
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Considering just replacing all my induction slides with this one.
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Considering just replacing all my induction slides with this one.
It's that time of year again!
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025:
Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025:
Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS)
OxFOS is an annual event for Oxford University researchers, academics, staff and students covering developments in open access and open research.
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's that time of year again!
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025:
Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025:
Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
We're looking for some maternity cover in our team: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... come work with us!
Job Details
my.corehr.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We're looking for some maternity cover in our team: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... come work with us!
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🚀 Exciting news for the #OpenScience community!
🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.
💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...
#STIENID25
🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.
💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...
#STIENID25
Open Science Initiatives Tracker
This dashboard provides a dynamic and community-driven overview of Open Science initiatives around the world.
amcm.shinyapps.io
September 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🚀 Exciting news for the #OpenScience community!
🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.
💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...
#STIENID25
🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.
💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...
#STIENID25
The second Bodleian Open Scholarship Event is here:
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
August 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The second Bodleian Open Scholarship Event is here:
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
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New post on how we use #ImposterSyndrome when perhaps we mean #TrespasserSyndrome. 📚
My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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It might not be Imposter Syndrome... We need to talk about Trespasser Syndrome — Ned Potter
Back in 2014 I wrote on this blog that Imposter Syndrome ran through librarianship like a vein. Writing now in 2025, I consider that a misdiagnosis. Imposter Syndrome is defined as a psychological co...
www.ned-potter.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New post on how we use #ImposterSyndrome when perhaps we mean #TrespasserSyndrome. 📚
My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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Alright let's do this *opens annual review* 1 hour later... I'm going to need more GF oreos *goes to kitchen to retrieve the rest of the packet*
August 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Alright let's do this *opens annual review* 1 hour later... I'm going to need more GF oreos *goes to kitchen to retrieve the rest of the packet*
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You'd think it obvious that the catalogue doesn't replace the librarian but a great deal of my work comes from people not understanding that
I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet
“How does the computer know something happened if no one tells the computer about it” is the easy-reader way to explain why we still need human reporters and data-collectors
And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this
And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this
August 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
You'd think it obvious that the catalogue doesn't replace the librarian but a great deal of my work comes from people not understanding that
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The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
'Wiley had attempted to keep the journal going without an academic editorial team in place, but those efforts have now come to an end. The publisher says, “All authors with active submissions will be contacted directly by Wiley to discuss available alternatives and next steps.”'
Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous
"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...
dailynous.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
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Hello, I'm a librarian in a film. I'm either aged and stooped or I'm a nerdy femme fatale. Either way I wear glasses and only ever work with very outdated print tomes. I've never heard of a computer or been in a romantic relationship. There is a cardigan somewhere on screen. 📚
Hello, I’m a programmer in a film. I can hack into and completely understand any system I’ve never seen before so long as the lights are dim and I say “I’m I’m”. The screen displays a language wholly inappropriate to the task but it’s fine because I know all of them. My wardrobe is inexplicable.
Hello, I'm a scientist in a film. I am a neuroscientist, who pipettes brightly colored liquids. No one else seems to work in my lab. I can decode anyone's genome with a single hair on my coffee break. I can permanently alter someone's genome in a single evening.
I'm also a surgeon.
I'm also a surgeon.
July 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Hello, I'm a librarian in a film. I'm either aged and stooped or I'm a nerdy femme fatale. Either way I wear glasses and only ever work with very outdated print tomes. I've never heard of a computer or been in a romantic relationship. There is a cardigan somewhere on screen. 📚
I have a genuine copyright/AI query - If the issue is renumeration for use (and replacement) of authors/artists work and it's been ruled in a few places that a computer cannot hold copyright - Why is it not the case that anything created by a LLM/GenAI is automatically in the public domain?
July 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I have a genuine copyright/AI query - If the issue is renumeration for use (and replacement) of authors/artists work and it's been ruled in a few places that a computer cannot hold copyright - Why is it not the case that anything created by a LLM/GenAI is automatically in the public domain?
Had a entertaining moment last week when I was complaining about how I turn off AI on things. Someone waggishly pointed out that my personal fiction is also in it and I got to reply with great delight that they were stored in PCloud and on open source word processors. #ProtectYourWork
July 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Had a entertaining moment last week when I was complaining about how I turn off AI on things. Someone waggishly pointed out that my personal fiction is also in it and I got to reply with great delight that they were stored in PCloud and on open source word processors. #ProtectYourWork
Very unusual to find a @livunipress.bsky.social journal (www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/revi...) to not have it's OA policy on Open Policy Finder! Made the query from one of our doctorate students quite hard to answer!
Revista Iberoamericana Home
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), to publish the journal, Revista Iberoamericana from 2023.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Very unusual to find a @livunipress.bsky.social journal (www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/revi...) to not have it's OA policy on Open Policy Finder! Made the query from one of our doctorate students quite hard to answer!
KU moves from Wiley: www.annualreviews.org/pb-assets/as...
www.annualreviews.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
KU moves from Wiley: www.annualreviews.org/pb-assets/as...
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If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.
June 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.
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The #nih just released new info on its zero-embargo #openaccess policy, which takes effect next week (July 1).
https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access
This includes:
* a new overview of the policy itself […]
https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access
This includes:
* a new overview of the policy itself […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
June 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The #nih just released new info on its zero-embargo #openaccess policy, which takes effect next week (July 1).
https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access
This includes:
* a new overview of the policy itself […]
https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access
This includes:
* a new overview of the policy itself […]
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Watch all four sessions from the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025. This year focusing on the question:
“What’s stopping us?” Asking what barriers we face, the challenges slowing progress, and searching for strategies to overcome them.
#OER #OpenResearch
open.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-op...
“What’s stopping us?” Asking what barriers we face, the challenges slowing progress, and searching for strategies to overcome them.
#OER #OpenResearch
open.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-op...
Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025
The Edinburgh Open Research Conference is a collaboration between the Library Open Research Team and Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea, and offers an opportunity for researchers, students, professional servi...
open.ed.ac.uk
June 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Watch all four sessions from the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025. This year focusing on the question:
“What’s stopping us?” Asking what barriers we face, the challenges slowing progress, and searching for strategies to overcome them.
#OER #OpenResearch
open.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-op...
“What’s stopping us?” Asking what barriers we face, the challenges slowing progress, and searching for strategies to overcome them.
#OER #OpenResearch
open.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-op...
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Can AI train on my openly licensed research? Do I retain copyright if I choose a CC BY license? Why can’t I reuse a figure from my own paper?
Get the answers in a webinar with Creative Commons, #EuropePMC & EMBL
🗓️ 9 Jul
⏰ 15:00 UTC
🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪
Get the answers in a webinar with Creative Commons, #EuropePMC & EMBL
🗓️ 9 Jul
⏰ 15:00 UTC
🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: What happens when you choose closed? What Creative Commons licenses mean for research and AI. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abou...
Licensing and copyright have always been an important aspect of publishing research. Creative Commons (CC) licences offer a standardised way for research authors to grant others permission to use thei...
embl-org.zoom.us
June 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Can AI train on my openly licensed research? Do I retain copyright if I choose a CC BY license? Why can’t I reuse a figure from my own paper?
Get the answers in a webinar with Creative Commons, #EuropePMC & EMBL
🗓️ 9 Jul
⏰ 15:00 UTC
🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪
Get the answers in a webinar with Creative Commons, #EuropePMC & EMBL
🗓️ 9 Jul
⏰ 15:00 UTC
🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪
Still time to book on - We've got 100+ so far!
Join @judithfathallah.bsky.social online tomorrow (25 June, 13:00 BST) to learn about the author’s journey from traditional academic publishing to choosing a new, scholar-led #OA press for #books 🧳 @openbookcollective.bsky.social
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June 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Still time to book on - We've got 100+ so far!
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Concerning.
For those (like me) not au fait with the acronym, Wiley are saying they won't publish community peer reviewed pre-prints, and possibly any pre-print which is too close the final published version.
For those (like me) not au fait with the acronym, Wiley are saying they won't publish community peer reviewed pre-prints, and possibly any pre-print which is too close the final published version.
NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social
Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh
Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh
June 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Concerning.
For those (like me) not au fait with the acronym, Wiley are saying they won't publish community peer reviewed pre-prints, and possibly any pre-print which is too close the final published version.
For those (like me) not au fait with the acronym, Wiley are saying they won't publish community peer reviewed pre-prints, and possibly any pre-print which is too close the final published version.
THIS. I call it the 'print event horizon' if it's not been digitised a LLM can never read it and there is MILLIONS of print/handwritten archival and library works/items that haven't because funding digitization just isn't sexy anymore.
Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.
June 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
THIS. I call it the 'print event horizon' if it's not been digitised a LLM can never read it and there is MILLIONS of print/handwritten archival and library works/items that haven't because funding digitization just isn't sexy anymore.
*makes notes for changing all advice materials* But I don't really want to recommend Unpaywall... *sigh*
blog.oa.works/sunsetting-t...
blog.oa.works/sunsetting-t...
Sunsetting the Open Access Button & InstantILL
How we’re refocusing our work to serve the Open Access movement.
blog.oa.works
June 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
*makes notes for changing all advice materials* But I don't really want to recommend Unpaywall... *sigh*
blog.oa.works/sunsetting-t...
blog.oa.works/sunsetting-t...