Patrick Hart
@silcrow.bsky.social
Curator for communities and organisations at the National Library of Scotland. Lapsed early modernist. Prospect rep. Open access/research. Emacs amateur. COYS.
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⚪️ Make 7,787 articles Open Access
⚪️ Give one guy a fortune
⚪️ Give one guy a fortune
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
⚪️ Make 7,787 articles Open Access
⚪️ Give one guy a fortune
⚪️ Give one guy a fortune
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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
“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.”
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Delighted that my debut novel will be published by Polygon in 2027 💘
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Delighted that my debut novel will be published by Polygon in 2027 💘
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I'm a pass on card catalogues, but I am all-in on making sure our physical collections not only remain strong, but are designed to encourage browsing.
Despite what consultant-class trends in academic libraries will tell you, our patrons actually do want stacks in the library. We should listen.
Despite what consultant-class trends in academic libraries will tell you, our patrons actually do want stacks in the library. We should listen.
The one thing I really miss about the 'older world' is browsing library stacks, and card catalogues. However much I appreciate databases and retrieving what I want in moments, the serendipity of 'the book next to the one I wanted' and 'the article in the same issue' cannot be replicated. #Libraries
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'm a pass on card catalogues, but I am all-in on making sure our physical collections not only remain strong, but are designed to encourage browsing.
Despite what consultant-class trends in academic libraries will tell you, our patrons actually do want stacks in the library. We should listen.
Despite what consultant-class trends in academic libraries will tell you, our patrons actually do want stacks in the library. We should listen.
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I've said this before but 99% of complaints about library catalogues are actually complaints about Ex Libris Primo. A whole category of software is being tainted in users' minds because of one shitty product.
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I've said this before but 99% of complaints about library catalogues are actually complaints about Ex Libris Primo. A whole category of software is being tainted in users' minds because of one shitty product.
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And again, dress up warm and bring your vuvuzelas... Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Sunday 16 November, 3pm, 130 Don Street, Old Aberdeen (Don Street House), AB24 1UY.
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
And again, dress up warm and bring your vuvuzelas... Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Sunday 16 November, 3pm, 130 Don Street, Old Aberdeen (Don Street House), AB24 1UY.
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Come and support the wonderful Copim gang whilst I’m on maternity leave! Happy to answer any q’s about the role ☺️
JOB KLAXON: Who wants to come work with us?! 💼
Join us as a Project Manager (0.60FTE) on a fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1st February 2026)
All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY
Don't delay, get your application in today!
Join us as a Project Manager (0.60FTE) on a fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1st February 2026)
All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY
Don't delay, get your application in today!
Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Project Manager: Open Access Publishing
Project Manager (0.60FTE): Open Access PublishingEmployment type: Fixed Term Duration: up to three months, available to start from 1st February 2026 This is a 3-month, part-time maternity cover…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Come and support the wonderful Copim gang whilst I’m on maternity leave! Happy to answer any q’s about the role ☺️
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
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Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑
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Check out my interveiw on Talk Radio Europe about the worlds 1st Black International footballer Andrew Watson. I’m also talking about my new book 📕 “Searching for my Slave Roots”
#MalikAlNasir #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #TalkRadioEurope #Slavery #Colonialism #Spain #Europe
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#MalikAlNasir #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #TalkRadioEurope #Slavery #Colonialism #Spain #Europe
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Malik Al Nasir – Searching for my slave roots: from Guyana´s sugar plantations to Cambridge...wit...
YouTube video by Talk Radio Europe
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October 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Check out my interveiw on Talk Radio Europe about the worlds 1st Black International footballer Andrew Watson. I’m also talking about my new book 📕 “Searching for my Slave Roots”
#MalikAlNasir #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #TalkRadioEurope #Slavery #Colonialism #Spain #Europe
youtu.be/9ztQJbJDLf8?...
#MalikAlNasir #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #TalkRadioEurope #Slavery #Colonialism #Spain #Europe
youtu.be/9ztQJbJDLf8?...
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For those who are interested, I'll be at the Byres Road Market in Hillhead Library this Saturday (1st November) selling copies of my book Glasgow Uncovered as well as my prints, calendars and Christmas cards. It's open 11am until 4pm.
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#glasgow #byresroad
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#glasgow #byresroad
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
For those who are interested, I'll be at the Byres Road Market in Hillhead Library this Saturday (1st November) selling copies of my book Glasgow Uncovered as well as my prints, calendars and Christmas cards. It's open 11am until 4pm.
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#glasgow #byresroad
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#glasgow #byresroad
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No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.
Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 27 October and Sunday 9 November 2025.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.
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This applies to online events hosted by the British Library. Digital pickets are still pickets.
No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.
Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
October 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This applies to online events hosted by the British Library. Digital pickets are still pickets.
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Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
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I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
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Looking forward to taking part in this OA week panel on Monday!
October 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Looking forward to taking part in this OA week panel on Monday!
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🧵 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...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🧵 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...
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The OBC remains proudly community-governed, transparent, and collaborative.
Together, our Members, libraries, + supporters are reshaping how scholarly books are shared and sustained youtu.be/ev-O82zQmMU
Together, our Members, libraries, + supporters are reshaping how scholarly books are shared and sustained youtu.be/ev-O82zQmMU
Open Book Collective in action: hear from our community
YouTube video by Open Book Collective
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October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The OBC remains proudly community-governed, transparent, and collaborative.
Together, our Members, libraries, + supporters are reshaping how scholarly books are shared and sustained youtu.be/ev-O82zQmMU
Together, our Members, libraries, + supporters are reshaping how scholarly books are shared and sustained youtu.be/ev-O82zQmMU
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Exploring the 5 themes in ‘The City’ an exhibition on queer, working-class life in Glasgow. Today: Clothes. For many, style expresses identity & gender. From thrifted 8 Ball jackets to bold scarves, clothes become tools of visibility, pride & connection.
October 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Exploring the 5 themes in ‘The City’ an exhibition on queer, working-class life in Glasgow. Today: Clothes. For many, style expresses identity & gender. From thrifted 8 Ball jackets to bold scarves, clothes become tools of visibility, pride & connection.
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Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
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Read this & donate to the Palestinian Futures Fund leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...
The Palestinian Futures Fund - Leonard Education Organization
The Palestinian Futures Fund is a higher education scholarship initiative led by university faculty and staff across the United States who stand in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in...
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September 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Read this & donate to the Palestinian Futures Fund leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...
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Digital Cultural Heritage is big business… not that we fund our public institutions enough. This is an alarming, aggressive attack on a public institution that has found a way and a business model to offer a digital service.
From @chrismpaton.bsky.social Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly. Extremely alarming legal saga involving US genealogy company Ancestry and National Records of Scotland re core Scottish genealogy and family history records. scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance...
Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Digital Cultural Heritage is big business… not that we fund our public institutions enough. This is an alarming, aggressive attack on a public institution that has found a way and a business model to offer a digital service.
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Equitable access and enduring preservation are two sides of the same coin. Together, they ensure that every voice in global scholarship is not only heard today but also safeguarded for tomorrow. It's a mission we are proud of! Join us? bit.ly/4nUNeBt
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Join the CLOCKSS community of world leading libraries and publishers. Together we preserve scholarship for future generations.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Equitable access and enduring preservation are two sides of the same coin. Together, they ensure that every voice in global scholarship is not only heard today but also safeguarded for tomorrow. It's a mission we are proud of! Join us? bit.ly/4nUNeBt
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The Kristmas @the-kraken.bsky.social (Dec 12-15) might will be the last event in 2025 that celebrates 50 Years of Chaosium!
Keris McDonald, associate editor for Call of Cthulhu and line editor for Cthulhu by Gaslight and The Sutra of Pale Leaves is a special guest.
www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium...
Keris McDonald, associate editor for Call of Cthulhu and line editor for Cthulhu by Gaslight and The Sutra of Pale Leaves is a special guest.
www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium...
September 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The Kristmas @the-kraken.bsky.social (Dec 12-15) might will be the last event in 2025 that celebrates 50 Years of Chaosium!
Keris McDonald, associate editor for Call of Cthulhu and line editor for Cthulhu by Gaslight and The Sutra of Pale Leaves is a special guest.
www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium...
Keris McDonald, associate editor for Call of Cthulhu and line editor for Cthulhu by Gaslight and The Sutra of Pale Leaves is a special guest.
www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium...
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Well, this has jumped to the top of my reading list: doi.org/10.1002/leap... Thanks, @margoline.bsky.social! (Also: AEUP's position paper zenodo.org/records/6346... and AG's recognition of the value of institutional publishing infrastructures and univetrsity presses ag-univerlage.de?page_id=2578)
‘Being small is not a fault’: Making sense of the newer generation of German‐language university presses
Key points There are 33 university presses in Germany, most of them part of the working group of German-language university presses, AG Universitätsverlage. Göttingen University Press was formed in...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Well, this has jumped to the top of my reading list: doi.org/10.1002/leap... Thanks, @margoline.bsky.social! (Also: AEUP's position paper zenodo.org/records/6346... and AG's recognition of the value of institutional publishing infrastructures and univetrsity presses ag-univerlage.de?page_id=2578)