Demmy Verbeke

Only if it is not too much bother. But I’m interested. Let me know what it would cost you to send, and I’ll wire the money (which might postBrexit in itself be a thing that makes either of us decide this is too complicated/expensive to pursue).

For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair? The open movement claims to include all disciplines. But it is profoundly shaped by the institution of science, leaving humanities researchers at risk.

A short commentary to reflect on open research in the humanities

Is this how parents feel when their child becomes a teenager? A glance at a decade of Artes. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Registrationq for Bibliotech Hackaton 2026 now (yes NOW) open! bib.kuleuven.be/english/rese...

247! + just added the checklist to my slidedeck of the course I give each term for our doctoral students about scholcomm in HSS. Very handy, and in this context extra handy to have the distinction between career phases & potential impact on career advancement.

OUP acquires Karger's long tail Hello fellow journalologists,

"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."

Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.

Sorry to miss the conference and celebrations of 1y Katina, not so sorry to miss the singing. But am still spending some time in the company of Liz while waiting for the train home after a long day of teaching and meetings.

Second defence: this is only an issue in the UK. Everyone coming from outside of the UK has made the same mistake, as none of us knew you also had to activate the plug.

And - besides the point - it is not even one of Doyle’s ones. This obsession with Moriarty and - don’t get me started - Adler is one of adaptors and people who only watch adaptations, not of people who actually read him.

How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.

How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-fanfiction-can-help-reimagine-scholarly-publishing

"Journal articles are the lifeblood of living scholarship."

...errr, I beg to differ.

The lifeblood of living scholarship is scholars or the scholarly community or...humans.

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

Also brewing on an article arguing how this lack of funding offers freedom and opportunity e.g. in the context of OA.

Agreed, but constantly in 2 minds. On the one hand: imagine what we could do if we had similar funding (and use some of it for our essential infrastructure: libraries and archives). On the other hand: look what we can do with just a fraction of the funding!

How is anyone going to do the work that leads up to those big grants? You need loads of small bits of financial support for most humanities research (or, well, job security and non-overload with teaching & admin but 🤷‍♀️) and to support the groundwork. Only massive grants skew the research environment.

I'm very excited to be part of the vibrant FUTURES Festival this year, inviting people to get involved with exciting research happening in the South West.

Come along to Exeter Phoenix - you will also be able to see posters belonging to the wills project leader
@jwhittle.bsky.social

Programme 👇

Agreed, I have an increasingly hard time to argue that we should fund DOA, if I have to follow it up with statistics about OA availability for which I have to say “btw, gold includes diamond in this graph, regardless of the fact that I just spent 30’ explaining what the difference is”

Open Book Collective in action: hear from our community Hear from the Open Book Collective's members and partners about why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books. The Open Book Collective is dedicated to advocating for the…

[VIDEO] Open Book Collective in action!

Hear from @openbookcollective.bsky.social members and partners about why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books ⚖️

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imagine the peace and quiet of some family gatherings

thanks! it was lovely to see you

The EDCH has received a grant from the Gates Foundation.

Big news for #DiamondOA! The #EDCH receives a 3-year grant from the Gates Foundation to boost services & build a #community of OA publishers in Europe.

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I fully approve! Let the fountains of wisdom flow.

Agreed - that was I have started using “so-called TA’s”. I am not allergic completetely to R&P deals, but we’re only experimenting with them if the cost for a R&P is the same as a R deal (without hidden costs or restrictions).

Demmy name-checked @openlibhums.org and @openbookcollective.bsky.social as reasons to be hopeful in scholarly publishing. He finished by arguing that the future belongs to those who can discover new ways of publishing research outside of commercial models (I paraphrase). #OASPA25

TSOSI - Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure A data-driven platform to broaden funding for open science infrastructure.

ACCOUNTABILITY of where support is happening for open infrastructure with Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure tsosi.org explained in this Katina story katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Yeah well whose fault is that??

Reconstructed that I must have written and submitted this chapter in …. 2009, and never heard anything about it any more until receiving a copy in 2025. Luckily, my chapter does not present the cure for cancer. (4) (end of rant)

Then tried to reconstruct when I would have written/submitted this. Traced an email from 2016 when I asked editor about an update about the book / my contribution (to which I never received an answer, and then forgot about it altogether). (3)

Publisher invokes a “contributor protocol” that I cannot imagine ever having agreed to, so I asked for written proof that I did. (2)