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"[Rebus] programs demystify open publishing and encourage OER creation, remix, and adoption" Our friend Apurva Ashok is behind some super important professional development and advocacy programs in #OpenEducation. Learn more in this recent interview with OSC Harvard

For #OAWeek our Managing Editor julie goldman talked about her volunteer work for #JeSLIB and all things #OpenAccess publishing. 🧡 Check it out! ⬇️

Registration is open for the 3rd annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day! #NIRD21 🤓

We are so grateful for Peter Suber's unwavering commitment to open access. Thank you, Peter, for all that we have been able to do under your leadership at OSC! Read Peter's thread for more about his shift from directing OSC to focusing more on open-access consulting.

Update. Here's the Harvard Library announcement, covering the changes to my role & to the OSC Harvard. staff.library.harvard.edu/blog/hlhcl-str…

The AAP's lawsuit represents a pattern of behavior that demonstrates the commercial publishing industry’s continued disdain for the librarians, educators, and the public who simply want resources to provide access to materials. Read our statement. 👇🏾 libraryfutures.net/post/statement…

20 years ago today the BOAI offered the first definition of #OpenAccess. To mark the anniversary, in consultation with the community, the BOAI20 Steering Committee will be releasing a new set of recommendations, reflections & resources in the coming weeks. tinyurl.com/33ztejue

New to Harvard Library Bulletin and #HarvardContagionProject: Stanford University #historian Paula Findlen on the 17th-c. Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, first to study plague under the #microscope—and then wrote a book about it. Countway Library holds an original edition. Read more: buff.ly/33A6K2w

New #HarvardContagionProject article in Harvard Library Bulletin: Taylor M. Moore writes on Egyptian old wives' tales, a mysterious medicine bundle in the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, & the connections "between histories of medicine ... & histories of anthropology & collecting": buff.ly/36p4iNo

We are incredibly excited to host our UK colleagues Dr Jane Secker & Chris Morrison ©️🤓 w/ their blog post "#FairDealingWeek Makes a Home Coming." Read about UK #copyright, fair dealing & the plans for the UK's first full week of #fairdealing events! blogs.harvard.edu/copyrightosc/2… #fairuseweek

It's the 9th Annual #FairUseWeek! We are kicking off the celebration of #FairUse with a post by #copyright expert Kenneth Crews exploring "Fair Use and Small Claims: Getting Ready for the Big Deal" blogs.harvard.edu/copyrightosc/2…

This Fair Use Week we teamed up with the SSRC #MediaWell project to ask experts to reflect on how fair use supports research and journalism, & how #FairUse can help combat misinformation. Follow #FairUseWeek & Fair Use Week for new content each day! ow.ly/4XRN50HZ6z3

In this session, Dave Hansen (@DukeLibraries) and Kyle K. Courtney (OSC Harvard)—authors of the original controlled digital lending (CDL) white paper—will explain the basic CDL framework & review recent developments in law & policy. ⤵️ Register here. oc.lc/3r0Op76

DASH has reached 50 million downloads! 🎉 Thank you to all of our contributing authors and, of course, to our readers around the globe––all of whom demonstrate the importance of #OpenAccess to scholarship. 🙏

Our Library VP and University Librarian Martha Whitehead, who chairs the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, says a new grant will enable COAR "to introduce significant innovation into the broad repository landscape in support of research." Read more about the funding:

Very excited to publish this piece on #ControlledDigitalLending and the Internet Archive case with The Hill TheHillOpinion. Please have a read: "If Publishers Have Their Way, #Libraries' Digital Options Will See Major Cuts" #CDL thehill.com/opinion/techno…

Internet Archive is trending for yet another day and I really think Kyle K. Courtney explaining the issues here surrounding CDL and the lawsuit could be helpful in clearing some issues up (including Chuck Wendig still getting dogpiled for criticizing the IA)