Large Language Publishing ift.tt/bfJqnia

“Large Language Publishing” — a new Upstream piece on the big scholarly publishers and their in-progress AI play, with implications for knowledge (“Matthew Effect on the scale of Scopus”) Open Access Tracking Project @[email protected] upstream.force11.org/large-language…

The Redemption of Plan S | Jeff Pooley ift.tt/9GXi2QK

We at mediastudies.press are proud to share with you the first-ever publication of Erving Goffman's doctoral dissertation: Communication Conduct in an Island Community 1/5: mediastudies.press/communication-…

Great news especially for #LSI scholars (ICA LSI NCA LSI): Irving Goffman's 1953 PhD dissertation is now available as an open access book, thanks to mediastudies.press | @[email protected] - mediastudies.press/pub/ns-ccic

I have left Twitter. We can do better. Find me on Mastodon at timelfen at assemblag.es. Thanks for so many great discussions.

This message repeats.

If you have a lot of followers you should do the right thing for them and lead them off this platform - at some cost to yourself - because they helped you get where you are. Here is
Teri Kanefield with a good explanation terikanefield.com/socialmedia/.

We are thrilled to announce the launch today of the Open Book Collective! Visit our site to see our members such as Open Book Publishers, DOAB, OAPEN, punctum 🍉 books, mediastudies.press | @[email protected], meson press, Mattering Press, African Minds & #Thoth ! #LibraryTwitter

I wrote a piece on the potential impact of the Big Tech shakeup on those careers who *demand* digital visibility--most especially creators. Once again, vulnerable creators will most likely bear the brunt: businessinsider.com/big-tech-shake…

Twitters CEO has wrecked the site but is almost ready to participate in a SxSW panel from 2004 on “Is blogging journalism”

It was an honor to be invited by Nature to review 'Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information' by Sarah Lamdan.

Time to curb the data brokers nature.com/articles/d4158…

All those scholars outraged at the corporate takeover of Twitter, threatening to withdraw, you're gonna love it when you hear about the mass for-profit corporate ownership of academic publishing platforms.

Great webinar just wrapped up, hosted by Knowledge Futures: 'Sustaining an Open Knowledge Ecosystem,' w/ Sharla Lair & Jeff Pooley | @[email protected]. Hopefully, a recording will be available. Here's a short summary & some of the ideas/projects/services/initiatives mentioned.

A significant move indeed in the commercial consolidation of open-access humanities infrastructure: blog.ubiquitypress.com/de-gruyter-and…. And a reminder that there is no entity outside the truly non-profit space that is not for sale, however, community-oriented it may be. bepress redux.

Looking forward to presenting with Jeff Pooley | @[email protected] at PubPub's OA Week celebration. We will be talking about Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program and #DiamondOA . Hope to see you there!

🚨New Preprint 🚨

The APC-Effect: Stratification in Open Access Publishing

Excited to share our work that shows the role of institutional resources (i.e.💲for APCs) in shaping who publishes in which OA journals

doi.org/10.31222/osf.i…

'The way that the global north pays for publishing hampers public, scholar-led efforts in Latin America'... I wrote my thoughts on this for a Nature editorial: nature.com/articles/d4158…

When can we all agree* that this is not the way to achieve sustainable & equitable #OpenAccess ? I feel sorry for the burden this adds to the librarians.

*SN excluded

🧵Fellow humanists: do you care that the largest academic publishers in the world are suing the government of India for allowing their people to access free online libraries? Do you care that Harvard & Oxford UPs have “taken down” online libraries? tinyurl.com/4krbkubu #crimes