Open Access Publication & ACM
Open Access Publication & ACM
ACM's Transition to Full Open Access: A New Era for Computing Research
In a significant step to broadening access to computing research, ACM is transitioning to a fully OA publishing model by the end of 2025
www.acm.org/publications...
05.08.2025 07:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can This Open Access Publishing Platform Attract Researchers’ Attention?
So far, Octopus has seen limited user engagement. But with its thoughtful design and ethical approach, the platform makes a strong case for itself.
Can This Open Access Publishing Platform Attract Researchers’ Attention?
So far, Octopus has seen limited user engagement. But with its thoughtful design and ethical approach, the platform makes a strong case for itself.
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
27.07.2025 11:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You Sent the Message. But Did You Write It?
A field guide to the weird new behaviors of AI-assisted communication.
You Sent the Message. But Did You Write It?
A field guide to the weird new behaviors of AI-assisted communication
by David Duncan
davidduncan.substack.com/p/you-sent-t...
05.05.2025 12:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards
In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.
The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards
In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.
by Jeffrey Pomerantz & Jason Griffey
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-cap...
02.05.2025 13:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The (Non)Gamification of Real Life
What if you can't actually hack your way to social status?
The (Non)Gamification of Real Life - What if you can't actually hack your way to social status? [also applies to scholarly reputation]
by Ben Ansell
benansell.substack.com/p/the-nongam...
02.05.2025 07:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe Persistent but Certainly Not Unique: On the Proliferation of DOIs in Open Access Book Publishing
Maybe Persistent but Certainly Not Unique: On the Proliferation of DOIs in Open Access Book Publishing
by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Toby Steiner, Hannah Hillen, and Ross Higman
doi.org/10.21428/785...
23.04.2025 07:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken
I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge ...
Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken
by Jan Wildeboer
I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models... But who runs these crawlers?
jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-...
22.04.2025 07:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beautiful! Explore the collection at
USDA Pomological Watercolors
search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/co...
18.04.2025 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How randomisation has changed the British Academy’s approach to research funding
by Ken Emond
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
16.04.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Research Data Governance. The Need for a System of Cross-organisational Responsibility for the Researcher’s Data Domain | Data Science Journal
Odebrecht, C. (2025) ‘Research Data Governance. The Need for a System of Cross-organisational Responsibility for the Researcher’s Data Domain’, Data Science Journal, 24(), p. 12. Available at: doi.org/10.5334/dsj-....
14.04.2025 08:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Everyone raised on the AP Style Guide is having a moment with this one, thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social
07.04.2025 10:30 — 👍 4046 🔁 625 💬 107 📌 43
FADFO
A lot of people have a 'need for chaos', as long as there's no chaos
FADFO - A lot of people have a 'need for chaos', as long as there's no chaos
by Ben Ansell
benansell.substack.com/p/fadfo
04.04.2025 10:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bots Behaving Badly
Bots Behaving Badly
Geoffrey Bilder (2025, April 2). Bots Behaving Badly. Retrieved from doi.org/10.59347/w36...
03.04.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Orale! US Hispanic English words in the OED March 2025 update
Orale! US Hispanic English words in the OED March 2025 update
www.oed.com/discover/us-...
27.03.2025 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In further University of Greater Manchester news:
We’ve been hearing that a campus lift has been out of order since the beginning of this year.
Last week, an unknown satirist placed a plaque next to the broken lift, saying it was actually an art installation called 'Ascenseur'.
24.03.2025 17:18 — 👍 61 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 2
AI bots are destroying Open Access
There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, ...
Two posts this week on the *technical* issues for OA scholarly publishers having their websites absolutely HAMMERED by AI harvesting bots for training:
Eric Hellman (@gluejar.com): go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-b...
Ian Mulvany (@ianmulvany.bsky.social): world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...
25.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 37 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
YouTube video by Aioria Andrei
[HD] GBI (German Bold Italic) - Kylie Minogue & Towa Tei
GBI (German Bold Italic) - Kylie Minogue & Towa Tei
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fw2...
26.03.2025 09:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
myNoise Backstage | The Blog of myNoise ®
Connecting with the myNoise Community: Insights from Stéphane, the Creator.
Why I’m Leaving Social Media (and Launching Something Better)
mynoise.net/blog.php
"If myNoise has [helped] you sleep, concentrate, or find a bit of calm — ... sign up. It’s the best way to make sure you won’t miss anything new. "
#MyNoise #NoiseGenerator #Soundscapes
25.03.2025 11:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How can you prove you've solved a problem without giving away the solution?
Let me introduce you to the world of zero-knowledge proofs... 🧵
24.03.2025 22:22 — 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
The 2023 Rhysida Ransomware Attack on the British Library: Prioritisation, Expertise, and Funding Issues
| Information Technology and Libraries
Houghton, F., Winterburn, M., & Oakley, K. (2025).
The 2023 Rhysida Ransomware Attack on the British Library: Prioritisation, Expertise, and Funding Issues.
Information Technology and Libraries, 44(1). doi.org/10.5860/ital...
24.03.2025 10:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
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Librarian at Queen's University Belfast. Interested in open research.
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Managing Director at Artefactual Systems. Developing and supporting open source software for the care of cultural memory
Academic librarian, but expect re/posting on many different things. (We all have a past.) Professional interests: scholarly comms, library systems, and the future of libraries in higher education.
Ing. at ENS de Lyon | données de la recherche et #openscience
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Manchester Metadata Maven
UK Librarian & Open Access supporter.
Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters
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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Currently co-organising @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
Organisers of sector events, Museums + Heritage Show and Awards, and publishers of Museums + Heritage Advisor. Known simply as M+H, we are at the centre of connecting the world of museums, galleries and heritage attractions
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The Front Matter Blog covers the intersection of science and technology since 2007.
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.bsky.social & Director of @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal.
SPARC is a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports open systems for research and education that enable everyone, everywhere to access, contribute to, and benefit from the knowledge that shapes our world.
Senior Community Engagement Officer for Services at OPERAS Research Infrastructure. Always journalist, always traveller, enthusiast of #scicomm & #openscience.
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