Tim R

Don't forget the CJAL CFP is due soon!

CJAL special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines
details here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

Questions? Just lemme know.

#lis
#libraries
#cfp
#library

As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.

For those following along at home... We heard back positively from 15% of these authors within 1 day. Everyone was on board with doing this. The biggest concern is interpreting the different versions of the article for submission.

#OAweek

Bar graph showing the distribution between open and close articles for the top 10 publishers.

Last one. Caveats abound but for what it's worth.

#OAweek

funnel graph showing the end result of 63 of 650 papers as being eligible for a free green OA pathway.

We also looked at all the 'closed' articles to see which had a 'free' way to post a green OA compliant. Here's how that shook down for each stage. We are going to contact about 10% of the article authors to have them consider depositing a copy in the repository. Wish us luck.

#OAweek

Pie graph showing 49.9% closed versus 50.1% open.

Some highlights... Over a million bucks on APCs and almost a 50/50 split on born OA versus closed.

For #OAweek this year we published a report based on @OpenAlex@mastodon.social data that highlights how much OA we publish and how much money was spent on APCs last academic year.

elibtronic.github.io/2025_state_o...

hello library workers. I am also a library worker. I would like to announce that the Code4Lib North sort-of-conference is this December 3-4th at McMaster University in Hamilton. Come on by if you got the gumption. Signup/info (info still be fleshed - signup is live though) at wiki.code4lib.org/North

New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship for a special issue entitled: Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements.

I'm one of the guest editors and I would love to see your submission. HMU if you have questions!

cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

#lis

I was on a picket line today.

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy

Whole lotta screen shots in Finder

Screen shots are my love language.

The worst of all bummers.

📢Join us Aug 27 @ 1PM ET for the Canadian Repositories CoP's Article Release Party kickoff! 🌟

We’ll explore how institutional repositories can better support community-based research, featuring a talk by Robyn Hall (MacEwan).

🔗 Details and registration: www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...

Histogram of author article frequency. Most authors are at 1-2 papers. There is one outlier that is 200 plus!

According to some DOI analysis that I'm doing, someone at MPOW has published over 200 'journal articles' that have a CrossRef DOI. This is year to date!

github.com/elibtronic/g...

This is a glass plate slide I saw at the museum in Amsterdam. I like how pagan it is.

Apparently the point of this is that you are not supposed to like the food and abundance, but to look at Jesus giving a sermon in the background.

*Jim eyes to camera*

It says it is wrong right in the stupid picture! Who is gonna buy this crap? NM, I think I know.

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Read this last week. Was great to see a section about Library and Info Lit stuff.

Algorithmic indexing in MEDLINE frequently overlooks important concepts and may compromise literature search results - PubMed The indexing performed by the February-March 2023 calibration of the MTIA algorithm, as well as older calibrations, frequently applied irrelevant or imprecise terms to publications while neglecting to...

I'm finally reading chat box transcript... Thanks this link btw.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39975491/

Thanks for chronicling the talk!

Reading this makes me really miss the bird site days.

New peer-reviewed article published:
Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University

doi.org/10.26522/bro...
#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #NewManagerialism #PublicIntellectuals

Just published: Our analysis of collective agreements at Canadian universities shows significant variation in protecting academic freedom. Important implications for faculty rights and institutional governance.

Read more: doi.org/10.58188/194...

#AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation

My academic world has contracted enough that I am presenting a paper at a conference and a person that I'm quoting a bunch is giving a plenary. I'm about as niche as possible now.

www.marxintheanthropocene.com

#phdlife

Part of my origin story I guess.

12 months to hear a 'no' on a journal submission. The no doesn't bother me, that is part of life. 12 months is the tough part in all of this.

I was feeling a bit nostalgic about our the Lab's old podcast so I decide to topic model our transcripts to see what we talked about

github.com/elibtronic/S...

In March I will be going to Venice to present a paper at this conference. I am very excited for this.

www.marxintheanthropocene.com

Here's some news. My title has changed (3rd times' a charm right?)