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The TERMS project needs a re-vamp to remain relevant. This iteration of TERMS, we’re calling TERMS 2.0.
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ohhhh, this looks very promising; added onto the 'to read' pile!
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The latest from #UKSGInsights "Journals preserved or how to turn Diamond into JASPER" Gaelle Bequet from @ISSN_IC bit.ly/3DI2YE2 #oa
Article front page for "Journals preserved or how to turn Diamond into JASPER"
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Just re-read this brilliant chapter about the whiteness of rankings: “In other words, it is not about the cream rising to the top, but rather about a system in which the cream identifies itself as better and utilises systemic processes to stay there.” 🔥
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There's a real irony at THE hosting work like this, when their league tables effectively preserve the colonial legacies of denigrating and exploiting black and brown people. 'Global university rankings can then, be seen as an act of white supremacy...' brill.com/view/book/edco
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Faculty, if RELX doesn’t ring a bell, maybe Elsevier, LexisNexis, Scopus, Mendeley, Digital Commons, Interfolio et al does. All the same $50 bn/yr company, who want to own yr research cradle to grave, discovery to publication to hiring/T&P—& collaborate w/ICE & data-mine you, too
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Data brokers like RELX, TransUnion, Acxiom and LiveRamp, who obtain and sell personal information on billions without any relationship with those whose data they exploit, are lobbying hard to weaken the US federal data privacy law that may soon be passed: politico.com/news/2022/08/2
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1/ This is big. is calling on all federal research funding agencies to adopt #openaccess policies. If they already have OA policies, they must strengthen them to meet the new guidelines. I'll add some summary points in a thread below.
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How is the Biden-Harris Admin working to ensure taxpayer-funded research data & publications advance innovation for ALL Americans? Today, @WHOSTP is releasing new guidance to make this research immediately available to the public at no cost. Learn more⤵️ whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda
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This is the right move, just as it was for COVID-19, but why wait for the next crisis? We need a national open access policy to make ALL federally funded research immediately available to the public. #OAintheUSA #OpenScience #OpenAccess
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To accelerate efforts to mitigate the #Monkeypox outbreak, @WHOSTP coordinated with 19 allies and partners in calling on publishers to immediately allow access to relevant research and data. whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda
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The Internet Archive only has two of my books (and one translation) available online. Right now my puvliusher is suing the on my behalf. But my publisher-owned by Rupert Murdoch--didn't ask me. I'm all for my books being available through them.
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Did you know that the Internet Archive has a physical archive that houses millions of books (as in: actual, physical, paper books)? For every book that we lend to users online, we have a physical copy that is preserved in our archive. A 🧵
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Highly recommend this work by very brilliant folks in LISland
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Hey, we got together and wrote an OA book on library resource management! @ebripley and I have fun in a chapter on breaking up 'big deal' content packages. twitter.com/gchilton/statu…
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Still letting this sink in
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'Half of total scholarly output is published by just 10 publishers, each of whom publish 400 or more journals. 80% of that is accounted for by the top 5' deltathink.com/news-views-pub
Sunsetting TERMs Tumblr Site in 2020 - Due to the buyout of Tumblr by Automattic this site will be archived by March 2020. It is currently in use in a couple of key places so it cannot be removed prior to then. Thanks to everyone for their...
Forthcoming Book on TERMS - ALA has begun pre-sale of our forthcoming book: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open. It is expected to be out later this Fall or early Winter. We will also be sharing OA as a...