Catherine Mitchell

Thrilled that the California Digital Library is a founding OJC publishing parter, with 14 eScholarship journals included in the 2026 collection. An important financial sustainability initiative for Diamond Open Access!

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We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight.

Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

America's Censored Campuses: DefendResearch.org and PEN America discuss US academic censorship As part of DefendResearch.org's ongoing work to highlight the dangers of government censorship of science and research in the United States, we are launching a webinar series in 2026 dedicated to conv...

Fighting attacks on knowledge requires understanding the terrain! Register for this first #DefendResearch webinar to hear from @penamerica.bsky.social about their new report “America’s Censored Campuses” analyzing #censorship within research and education. tinyurl.com/437aybub #Academia

Thrilled that the California Digital Library is partnering with Lyrasis and the Big Ten Academic Alliance's Center for Library Programs on a grant-funded project to advance #DiamondOA in the U.S.!

Be part of the conversation about how to #DefendResearch, support #OpenAccess, and protect #Education! Register for next week's SJSU OA Virtual Conference, where I'm very excited to share the keynoting privilege with @camitchell.bsky.social scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...

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Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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My ongoing request:

If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

Time for Action! Urge legislators to fund UC!

I just emailed my state representatives to support Newsom's new budget for UC. If you agree that this economic and social engine for California needs robust state support, please join me.

universityofcalifornia.quorum.us/campaign/sta...

A great campaign by @standupforscience.bsky.social and an excellent way to #StandUpforScience and to #DefendResearch! #SciSky #ScholComm #Academia #Libraries #Librarians

This sobering interview is on a similar theme to our recent post about the importance of #OpenAccess for academic freedom and resistance to censorship:

blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac...

Testimonials In support of protecting free and open scientific inquiry and publication, we are collecting short testimonials from researchers on the impact of censorship on their work and the broader community. T...

Researchers who have had grants terminated--tell your story! The #DefendResearch team is collecting testimonials about this impact of #censorship on research that we will use as part of a toolkit for contacting elected officials. #NSF, #NEH, #NIH www.defendresearch.org/testimonials

“It Starts with Censorship”: An Interview with Science Defender Lisa Schiff Almost the moment President Trump took the oath of office, the attacks on science, data, and science-based policies began. The new administration halted public health communication, upended science ad...

So honored to have the opportunity to talk with the Union of Concerned Scientists about U.S. government #censorship and how to #DefendResearch!! @ucsusa.bsky.social blog.ucs.org/pallavi-phar...

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

4,100+ individuals and organizations have #resisted by signing the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Gov #Censorship? Add your name and make your voice heard! #NoTimeForSilence tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f #science #humanities #HSS #socialscience #sciencewriters #journalists #academics

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

A Science Protest Offers Insight into the Science of Protesting “Stand Up for Science” shows how science supporters are coming together

Thank you @sciam.bsky.social for covering the #standupforscience2025 rallies & interviews w/folks like @rouhiroo.bsky.social describing #actions to take, like signing the Declaration to #DefendResearch from U.S. Gov't #censorship tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

Yes. Consider signing the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship, with over 3000 organizational/individual signatories and growing fast! tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

Yes!!

@standupforscience.bsky.social Great rally in San Francisco! So many scientists, so much at stake!

Me too! And ditto!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

Find your way to a Stand Up For Science rally today!!! standupforscience2025.org #DefendResearch #StandUpforScience2025 #NoTimeForSilence

Headed to the Stand Up For Science rally in SF today. See you there! Use the QR code to sign our Declaration To #DefendResearch Against U.S. Gov’t Censorship!

I’ll be there this Friday!

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

Good to see this Nature piece highlighting #resistance to the Trump assault on research, knowledge, & education: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you for this! I would urge all authors to submit their author's final version of all articles to their institutional repository, a subject repository, and or zenodo.org I've been an academic librarian in this space for a longtime, and am happy to help anyone--DM me!

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

AUPresses Supports Anti-Censorship Declaration - Association of University Presses AUPresses joins with individual and institutional members of the scholarly communications community to assert that researchers must be freely able to conduct, collaborate on, share, review, and discus...

Thank you @aupresses.bsky.social for fighting censorship by signing and amplifying the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship! aupresses.org/news/aupress... @alicemeadows.bsky.social @camitchell.bsky.social @rouhiroo.bsky.social @petersuber.bsky.social

Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Government Censorship - The Scholarly Kitchen In response to US government efforts to censor research and researchers, a small group of scholarly communications professionals have launched a Declaration to defend research. Learn more in today's p...

Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Government Censorship scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/19/d...

The Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship has over 1300 individual signatures! Please continue to sign and share! #scholcomm #resist