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Researcher at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities

PI: @morphss.bsky.social

New book: Publishing Beyond the Market https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Sep 1
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
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Apologies if you get your internet from Virgin Media and want to read my sporadically updated website because they've inexplicably blocked it. I'm going to consider myself the victim of political sabotage until I hear otherwise.
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Funny reading this quote because it's exactly the same way I'm now thinking about open research with @morphss.bsky.social
kjsanders.bsky.social Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 3h
A reminder that "[o]ne should not think of OA as a thing-in-itself; rather, it should be seen as a process of understanding, engaging and experimenting with the ways in which research is presented and disseminated." (@samuelmoore.org, 2017)
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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My 5yo came home from school yesterday and told us she had been taught the meanings of the words apprehensive, increasing, imperious and hovel. Can't say I understand where they're going with this curriculum.
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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“It doesn’t really matter which lens we look at Elsevier’s offers from. Whether it’s from cost of publishing, the amount of usage or the price according to the size of institution, their offers have always been vastly more expensive than the other publishers in comparison.”
Elsevier boycott looms Down Under
ANZ universities notch ‘major’ open access agreements with big publishers, but negotiations with the biggest break down
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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They should just create AiXiv for all the slop and be done with it.
socarxiv.bsky.social SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 23h
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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jackstilgoe.bsky.social
This raises a very real question about how we talk about AI. To call this slop is to downplay the fact that it was published in an esteemed journal. We used to call such things fraud, but this suggests the publisher is innocent. AI has changed the terms of debate. We urgently need new norms.
erikangner.com Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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plashingvole.bsky.social
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
sanho.bsky.social Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d
This path leads to chaos.
Phil Gentry @pmgentry A professor of mine went to go hear Derrida speak once. The entire talk was about cows; everyone was flummoxed but listened carefully, and took notes about...cows. There was a short break, and when Derrida came back, he was like, "I'm told it is pronounced 'chaos. 11:28 AM • 4/5/21 from Philadelphia, PA • Twitter for iPhone
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ludowaltman.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to this event next week in Cambridge. There are so many interesting developments in the publish-review-curate landscape!
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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righttoroam.bsky.social
You’ve seen the signs: ‘Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted’. They lie. In the UK ‘trespass’ is a civil offence, not a criminal one. You cannot face prosecution simply for being on someone’s land, off a designated Right of Way, open access land, or land where bylaws permit access, without permission.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Was cycling my folding bike through town and a French toddler started laughing hysterically shouting P'TIT VELO over and over. Sick burn.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I'm speaking a lot at the moment but I promise to shut up once I've shifted a few books.
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d
📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing.

📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The tiny academic thrill of being asked a question by a student and being able to say: "Hang on, my colleagues actually wrote a paper about this…”
doi.org/10.1002/asi.... @lucyces.bsky.social @diegokoz.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social et al. #ScholCommLab
<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Clarivate's Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier's Scopus have been for decades the main sources of bibliometric information. Although highly curated, these closed, proprietary databases are largely bia...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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librarykirsten.bsky.social
For anyone who got a feedback request from Clarivate (Ex Libris) today - zine from Librarians & Archivists with Palestine
librarianswithpalestine.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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davidprosser.bsky.social
A hugely important position for the international research library community has opened up - LIBER is recruiting a new Executive Director:

libereurope.eu/article/2025...
Job Opening - LIBER Executive Director - LIBER Europe
libereurope.eu
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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suzpaul.bsky.social
Excellent library job in Cambridge.👇
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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demonicgrounds.bsky.social
Experimenting with Error: Dan Charnas and I talk about Dilla Time, Detroit, and black geographies. Thank you @antipodeonline.bsky.social for publishing our conversation!

antipodeonline.org/2025/11/25/c...
Author Interview—“Experimenting with Error: A Conversation with Dan Charnas” - Antipode Online
Katherine McKittrick, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen’s University This conversation took place on March 28th at the 2025 AAG annual meeting in Detroit. Many thanks from everyone here at...
antipodeonline.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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archive.org
📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing.

📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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eve.gd
I basically think this is the edge of a pretty bad storm of copyright conservatism and a reopening of the license wars (which may make no difference due to transformative use). However, if you put up a paywall to acquire, AI companies have to acquire legally in current court rulings. Problematic.
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I wish articles would stop setting up a dichotomy between the extractive commercial publishers and the scrappy diamond journals. Community-led journals are obviously not a magic solution to commercial publishing -- nothing is -- and I assume people wanting to build capacity for this space know that.
We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage
Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.
www.zmescience.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Nice exploration of Clarivate's "commons washing"
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:

opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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ncdominie.bsky.social
I'm sure those poorer British students will benefit greatly from grants to attend the universities that no longer exist because Labour have bankrupted them.
sgfmann.bsky.social George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 4d
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
samuelmoore.org
This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:

opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...
opendivide.hypotheses.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Some history of science jobs to share.

An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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"Should a country that is no longer a signatory to the global recommendation on open science have the power to decide who and what gets to be involved? If not, how do we safeguard international support for open science against the growing storm?"
US Unesco withdrawal puts open science at risk - Research Professional News
Concentration of digital infrastructure in America creates global fragilities, say Louise Bezuidenhout and Jon Verriet
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM