Great example of collaboration at Cambridge University Library: new blog post by Kim Clugston in the Office of Scholarly Communications and Leontien Talboom in the #DigitalPreservation team about why researchers should give more thought to file formats unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3960 #OpenAccess #OpenResearch

Thanks a lot Earth for the invitation to discuss at length my favorite topic: building LLM as a commons. That is not open models, code, data as “free resources” but as community-based resources. openfuture.eu/blog/common-co…

Next Cambridge Collections Connections Communities keynote May 22: Esme Ward will be speaking about how to renew and reimagine the creative, collaborative & civic role of the university museum ... reflecting on reopening of Manchester Museum last year. Book here (free!) ccc.cam.ac.uk/about/news/ccc…

After Disruption: A Future for Culture Memory by Trevor Owens (Trevor Owens) is live at University of Michigan Press, and it is #openaccess . Memory workers/institutions must take back control of the future of memory from management consultants and tech evangelists. Read free at doi.org/mtmc

Go meta! Delighted to see the new £5M metascience funding call has hit the streets from UK Research and Innovation Economic and Social Research Council Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Open Philanthropy. Projects up to £300K each. Deadline 16 July. ukri.org/opportunity/uk…

'Student occupation', you say?

We have loads of archive materials from the 60s to now.

Righteous histories AND practical tips that worked!

Come down in opening hours and read and use. Pure praxis you feisty comrades

Here's just some of what we have:

Technophany is indexed by the most reputable open-access peer-reviewed journal directory DOAJ; your article will appear in all university library catalogues; please consider publishing with us!

New preprint with Giovanni Colavizza et al: We use PLOS Open Science Indicators to explore if #OpenScience practices correlate with cumulative effects on citations. Sharing preprints, 20.2% increase;
sharing data in a repository, 4.3%; sharing code, no effect arxiv.org/abs/2404.16171

'it’s a criminal organization that is pumping out paper after paper. And those have not been picked up by journals, they’ve been picked up by volunteers.'

Interview with Elisabeth Bik in El Pais

english.elpais.com/science-tech/2…

The 'crisis' in UK university finances has been a decade-long ambition of student fee policies. The sub-inflationary rates are designed to trigger 'market exit' among institutions without endowments or substantial assets. It's a feature, not a bug.

'HOJP will provide publishing services, resources, and seed funding to participating Harvard researchers for new academic journals. All journal articles will be entirely free for authors and readers, with no barriers to publish or to access.'

Great stuff

If the hiatory of Kinder Scout interests you, see the terrific new play by Townsend Productions now our town!! townsendproductions.org.uk

Cloudy

🔍✨ We're looking for a researcher in law with a PhD to work on #opendatacommons licences for 6 months in #Paris . This position is offered in partnership with
CNRS 🌍 to work directly with Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Renata Avila.

#Hiring
#JobAlert

okfn.org/en/jobs/resear…

Join me for a talk on 'Evaluation Game' at Centre for Global Higher Education in Oxford on June 4, or connect in via Zoom! I'll discuss the origins & impact of metrics in academia. Details: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/9adaf… #researchevaluation

'At Kent we have concluded that we do not, in principle, wish to set a precedent for OA costs that are unsustainable, not transparent and therefore do not appear to represent value for money.'

Good post on not topping up OA book fees.

kent.ac.uk/library-it/sup…

How good does this Beyond the Bassline exhibition about Black British music British Library look?

Really important work taking place too here

theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Here's a list with links for anyone interested (compiled from answers below):