Ronald Snijder

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Pirate Arrrr!! Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day! May all your decks be swabbed and your buckles be swashed!

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The Death of the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Line - The Scholarly Kitchen In today’s post, Teodoro (Teo) Pulvirenti and Marianne Calilhanna join Randy Townsend to unpack the disturbing topic of suicide among the LGBTQ+ community.

The Death of the LGBTQ+ #SuicidePrevention Line

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Text Shot: In the midst of those very big bad things, however, there is one big good thing happening on this planet. And that is the sudden surge in the use of what, for the last 40 years, we’ve called alternative energy, but which has now become the most obvious, straightforward way to make power.  Ninety-five percent of new generation here and around the world last year came from clean energy. And the acceleration continues. In May, the latest month for which we have numbers, China was installing three gigawatts of solar power per day. That means they were putting up the solar equivalent of a coal-fired power plant every eight hours. Those numbers are so different from anything we’ve seen before that it seemed worth writing this book to spread that story.

Bill McKibben says cheap solar could topple Big Oil’s power » Yale Climate Connections https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/bill-mckibben-says-cheap-solar-could-topple-big-oils-power/ #solar #energy

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Against the Grain - The Podcast: ATGthePodcast 288 - A Conversation with Ronald Snijder, CTO, Head of Research, OAPEN Foundation Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Ronald Snijder, CTO, Head of Research, OAPEN Foundation. Ronald first obtained his bachelor’s in librarianship, then worked in IT, and then moved into academic publishing with Amsterdam University Press. He says he combines all these experiences with OAPEN library work, where he focuses on open access for books, and is responsible for the technical infrastructure of both OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). In this interview, he talks about his compelling career, which includes libraries, Not-for-profit foundations, and software companies. LinkedIn:  Keywords:  #OAPEN #DOAB #OpenAccess #OpenAccessBooks #PublishingTech #DigitalLibraries #HigherEducation #LibraryInnovation #Innovation #LibraryScience #KnowledgeSharing #LibraryJobs #career #collaboration #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts

Hear me blathering about #OpenAccess, #libraries and #AcademicPublishing...

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Long bridge over clam water with a blue sky behind it

Halfway through my vacation that also marks the move from my old job to the new. Sort of like crossing a #bridge.

Oh well, some made up horror instead of the real one...

Cover of the book "The end of the world as we know it" ISBN 9781399738675

Just found this #book of stories based on #TheStand by #StephenKing. Now seems a good time to read about the end of the world as we know it. #horror

📣Vacancy – Platform Manager
We are seeking an experienced digital platform manager to join our team who will ensure that #DOAJ continues to grow and meet the demands of our user community
#DOAJVacancy #OpenAccess #DOAJTeam
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Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting ...

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
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#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure

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On my way to the unknown

University Press Library Open (UPLOpen) is purely for finding and retrieving open access books.

Which @oapenbooks.bsky.social does for 14 years already, and is purely open infrastructure...

Why should libraries also pay for UPLOpen, which running on proprietary software? Am I missing something?

Car peddles, with a 'play' symbol on the gas and a 'pause' symbol on the break

Just in case you forgot... #car #design #funny

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Survey on longform content in institutional repositories. This is part of a study commissioned by The British Academy and carried out by Information Power Ltd. #OpenAccess #books #AcademicPublishing

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Replace #AI with #Robot #Walrus and a lot of things become more clear... #Savagechickens #cartoon
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Change of technical leadership at OAPEN and DOAB – OAPEN – Online library of open access books Shortly after the launch of the OAPEN project back in 2008, I remember that the project coordinator, Eelco Ferwerda at Amsterdam University Press (AUP) introduced a new colleague to the project: Ronald Snijder. Ronald was the Project Supervisor Digital Publications at AUP and introduced to support the technical coordination of the OAPEN project. After the … Continue reading "Change of technical leadership at OAPEN and DOAB"

As I will be leaving #OAPEN, the managing director wrote this blog. For me it feels a bit weird, like reading your obituary, but if you are looking for a job in the space of #OpenAccess #books and have technical skills, check it out oapen.hypotheses.org/1543

#JobOpening

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Kids these days...

#books #reading #Internet #cartoon # chicken
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FAU University Press: Now in the top catalogs for open access publications ub.fau.de/en/2025/06/1...

Manista, G., Maryl, M., & Wnuk, M. (2025). Attitudes towards Open Access Books in the European Research Area. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 35(1), Article 1. doi.org/10.53377/lq....

#OpenAccess #books #ScholComm

A book is a book in any other markup language – OAPEN – Online library of open access books Updating the OAPEN Library’s metadata feeds  Since the launch of the OAPEN Library in 2010, the metadata feeds for our collection of open access (OA) books and chapters have always been and will continue to be freely available for anyone to access, download, and use as they need from the OAPEN website.    Metadata is information … Continue reading "A book is a book in any other markup language"

At @oapenbooks.bsky.social, we have updated our #Metadata feeds, to better integrate our #OpenAccess #books into #libraries.

All details are described here:
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Facets of trust: describing peer review procedure of open access books with PRISM” - Jisc This event is an introduction to Operas’ Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) by Ronald Snijder from OAPEN, with some input from some researchers who will showcase how they use the…

Join @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social for this @jisc.basky.social webinar next Thursday, 19 June from 15:00 to 16:30 CEST to hear more about @operaseu.bsky.social service #PRISM and #peerreview for #OAbooks. Sign up for FREE below 👇

Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time In my previous post on our less than optimal performance of the OAPEN Library and DOAB, I wrote about the effect of AI bots on our systems, and that it has become a common problem for many sites provi...

I wrote a little blogpost about #AI #bots that are like a plague of locusts on the #OAPEN #Library

#OpenAccess #books

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OAPEN CTO @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social likens AI bot activity to a swarm of locusts in this new blog post 🦗🦗🦗

Read more about the solutions we've implemented to combat these 'locusts' since we last posted about issues with the OAPEN Library's response time in April

#OAbooks

DOAB has been restored. Apologies for the inconvenience!

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Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy

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#ScholComm #dissertation

News - JLSC Call for Applications The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC) is opening a call for applications for openings in three editorial tracks due to the conclusion of regular terms as well as …

The Journal of #Librarianship and #Scholarly Communication (JLSC) is opening a call for applications for openings in three editorial tracks.
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#OpenAccess #library