Some personal news: I'm really excited to share that as of today, and after having served @copim as Project Manager for more than three years, I'm now joining @Thoth_metadata as COO (apparently that is a thing?) & Product Manager 👋

In the coming months and years, we'll be working to bring fully open, #CC0-licensed #metadata for #OAbooks to more publishers, including those involved with the lovely folks over at Open Book Collective (@openbookcollect@twitter.com, who will also soon be joining the #fediverse, I hear), while also expanding our range of open #metadata output formats, further developing the Thoth Archiving Network (#archiving & #preservation), and working to further improve #accessibility and #bibliodiversity aspects of Thoth via our participation in the Open Book Futures project (aka. our next phase of COPIM) ... it's definitely not going to be boring! 😄

A recent and interesting contribution to the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog, questioning the sanity of a tacit research library consensus surrounding #OpenAccess, and a lack of #bibliodiversity in scholarly publishing (spearheaded by research libraries).

Greater Expectations – The academic library should be a benefactor for community-owned publishing:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/04/03/greater-expectations-the-academic-library-should-be-a-benefactor-for-community-owned-publishing/ #OpenResearch #OpenScience #scholcomm #scholarship

An exciting milestone for my institutional repository team. I'm proud to be part of a uni library that recognises the strategic importance of green #OpenAccess & #bibliodiversity https://blogs.griffith.edu.au/library/2023/04/03/celebrating-30-million-downloads-of-griffith-research/

@openscij : 25671 revues scientifique, 5,8 millions articles, 136 pays, 60 langues, 60% en LL-SHS, 84% Diamond Open Access, -2% suspectées prédatrices
-8% indexées dans WoS et Scopus
Et nos BU, elles font quoi pour la #bibliodiversity ?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/02/07/beyond-web-of-science-and-scopus-there-is-already-an-open-bibliodiverse-world-of-research-we-ignore-it-at-our-peril/

Karlstrøm, H., Aksnes, D. W., & Piro, F. (2023, February 22). Benefits of open access (OA) to researchers from lower-income countries: Tracing evidence through an analysis of reference patterns.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ecgzh/ via @OSFramework
#openaccess #bibliodiversity

Thrilled to announce today's launch of the Open Book Collective! #OAbooks

Visit our site to see our members such as Open Book Publishers, the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB), OAPEN, punctum books, mediastudies.press, meson press, Mattering Press, African Minds, and Thoth.

Librarians can see Open Access initiatives, presses & open infrastructure projects, that can be supported via annual memberships that will help these groups to thrive & also contribute to a fund to assist these groups in further developing & bettering their operations. #openinfrastructure

Supporting members of the OBC contribute to a more durable ecosystem for the long-term sustainability of OA publishers & open infrastructure developers so critical to #bibliodiversity.

Open Book Collective has been developed by the COPIM project and ScholarLed, generously funded by the Research England Development Fund and Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

https://openbookcollective.org

RT @GinnyBarbour@twitter.com

Pleased to be interviewed for this piece: “We need a diverse system [that supports] repositories, local publishers and fully open access journals with no fees… if we only focus on read and publish, we will knock out other types of OA.” #OpenAccess #bibliodiversity https://twitter.com/fiona_bradley/status/1599524648685023232

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GinnyBarbour/status/1599702389371834369

Pleased to be interviewed for this piece in Times Higher Ed: “We need a diverse system [that supports] repositories, local publishers and fully open access journals with no fees… if we only focus on read and publish, we will knock out other types of OA.” #OpenAccess #bibliodiversity
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/australia-and-new-zealand-face-bumpy-road-open-access-research

#bibliodiversity (now spelled right)

#bibliodiversity (now spelled right)

Basically, the BPC model is favourable for the large publishers. In other words: less good for #bibliodiversity

Some random thoughts on the dominance of English as the language of science/scholarship.

While it is hard to see this changing anytime soon, up to the mid 18C people probably thought the same of Latin.

If we are serious about opening science to everyone, and promoting citizen science, then we do need to recognise that not everyone can read, let alone write, English.

AI may be the game-changer - should open science platforms have built-in language translation? #OpenScience #Bibliodiversity

RT @ronaldsnijder
Who is talking about @OAPENbooks and @DOABooks? A snapshot of last week.
#openaccess
#oabooks
#books
#oa
#bibliodiversity
Created with @nodexl, see also https://www.nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Graph.aspx?graphID=275387

RT @PeerCommunityIn
@PeerCommunityIn and @PeerComJournal can count on a new financial support! Many thanks to the Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier (ISEM) @isemevol for its commitment to #openscience and #bibliodiversity