Your periodic reminder that openparliament has Hansard haikus. It spots 5/7/5 syllabic patterns in Hansard, whether intentional or not (and whether poetry or not :p) Some are quite amusing openparliament.ca/labs/haiku/

The lawsuit against our library is about YOUR right to access information privately and without surveillance #democracy #privacy eff.org/document/hache…

"The authors...found that “green” OA—in which authors deposit  journal-accepted M/S in public repositories when published—has a greater citation diversity advantage than those published as “gold” OA, whose authors pay publishers a fee to make them immediately free to read"

Senator Doody: Bring back the cheese!

“If you have growing numbers of researchers who are being strongly incentivised to publish just for the sake of publishing, while we have a growing number of journals making money from publishing the resulting articles, you have a perfect storm...That is exactly what we have now"

Hopefully this Bill will succeed... Crown copyright is outdated and unnecessary; the censorship it enables adds to the democratic deficit fixcrowncopyright.ca Both Conservative Party & NDP asked for its abolishment in the 2019 final report of the Copyright Act

Enshittification describes how platforms go bad, which is also how the internet goes bad, because the internet is made of platforms, which is weird, because they're intermediaries and we were told that the internet would *disintermediate* the world: pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-… 1/

A significant development today in the world of #scholcomm and #openaccess - Gates Foundation will be mandating preprint posting and ceasing to pay APCs for #openaccess publication with effect from 1 Jan 2025, cgdev.org/blog/advancing…

Is a 317 page judicial decision truly accessible for the public—or anyone?

Since 2009, we and others have been building a complete database of case law. Today we mark the next step in that project: We have added every case from the Harvard Law Library to CourtListener. This is a big post about the work we did and what's next: free.law/2024/03/26/all…

At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We do this so that everyone, everywhere has access to a great research library. #digitization #preservation #access

Oh boy I am chasing down a primary source cited all over the place which clearly everyone is just citing from the first guy who cited it and the primary source does not say what everyone thinks it says

Thanks to everyone who attended last night's talk on "Repairing Competition" in beautiful Brisbane, hosted by Griffith University's Law Futures Centre and part of Leanne Wiseman's ARC-funded research "Unlocking digital innovation: Intellectual Property and the Right to Repair".

It is a remarkable fact of legal life that the standard legal citation guide, the Bluebook, sells for $46 and is published exclusively by a coalition of students at four elite law schools. Citation standards are needed, but those rules should be available to all for free.

Access to books is crucial for everyone, especially for those living in places without libraries or with limited access. 🌍📚 Tell the publishers that sued our library you want access to 500,000+ books restored. ➡️ change.org/p/let-readers-… #LetReadersRead