Nick Shockey

Federal Agency Publication & Data Sharing Policy Overview & FAQ Events In response to the 2022 Nelson Memo, federal agencies are required to update their public access policies by the end of this year. New policies are now in effect for several agencies: the NIH, CDC,…

We and @sparcopen.bsky.social are hosting two more webinars to support administrators and librarians in their efforts to ensure compliance with public access policies.

These webinars will focus on new publications and data sharing requirements.

More info:

www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/15/f...

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This was fantastic!

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Photo of the AI Ethics panelists

If you didn't make t into 'AI Ethics and the Library today,' join the presenters for , an encore presentation on Sunday at9000 amin PCC Room 114 (Nutter Theatre)

Great time with Library Freedom Project pushing back on AI hype, and if you missed us today, fear not...

We've got so many feelings about AI, and so many folks want to hear them, that ALA asked us to share them twice!

Catch the encode on #alaac25 Sunday at 9 am

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BOAI Transitioning to Organization to Support the Development of Equitable Open Access – Budapest Open Access Initiative

Today I'm pleased to announce that the BOAI, which first defined #OpenAccess, is transitioning into an org to support the development of equitable OA. For more, please see our blog post, which is being translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-tr...

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Study tracks limited impact of transformative OA contracts The current levels of implementation of transformative agreements, which aim to facilitate the transition from subscription-based journal publishing t...

“Millions that could be used to improve the higher education sector and the academic publishing platforms in South Africa are being syphoned to these large corporations based in the Global North that control much of the global academic publishing sector."
www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

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Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier's ScienceDirect Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier's ScienceDirect documents a variety of data privacy practices that directly conflict with library privacy standards, and raise...

If you're interested in privacy concerns related to Elsevier specifically, see our report on Elsevier's ScienceDirect: zenodo.org/records/1007...

TL;DR: User tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms.

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Reminder that Elsevier's parent company, RELX, is one of the world's leading data brokers and its risk business, LexisNexis, is named in the underlying FTC complaint here as a 3rd party GM sold driver data to which then packaged that data into products for car insurers that led to price increases.

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