Shereen Thor with closing keynote at #UKSG2024 Break out of your comfort zone and fulfil your potential. Imagine if JLo had done what her parents wanted and become an accountant.

Chris Bennett Cambridge University Press outlines the severe challenges faced by academic journals publishing today #UKSG2024

Good to see that the debate over whether green #openaccess will kill publishers is still going strong after at least 20 years! Katie Fraser Dr Beth #BLM 🏳️‍🌈 🐺 #UKSG2024

Bottom line issues for society publishing, according to Angela Cochran 🌻 #UKSG2024

We are at #UKSG2024 !

Delighted to get a shoutout for the Copim Corner social (kindly hosted & arranged by UKSG):

Finnieston Taphouse, 1046 Argyle Street, G3 8LY

ALL WELCOME! 7.30pm onwards. Come & meet colleagues old & new! 🥳
Thoth (@[email protected]) OpeningTheFuture Open Book Collective

⁦Ivan Oransky⁩ highlights the massive growth in retractions in recent years. It’s a well known issue, but still unsettling to see just how quickly the numbers have risen #UKSG2024

1/4 A smart colleague pointed this out in the Wiley 3rd Q update re LLMs: 'Our content is foundational for training and fine-tuning these models. I'm pleased to report that after the quarter closed, we executed a $23 million content rights project with a large tech company.'

📈 Independent society publishers saw median revenue GROWTH of 21% 2014-2022.
😔 Societies who outsourced their journals publishing saw a median DECLINE of 30%.
To find out why (and what it has to do with a big yellow taxi and #openaccess ) check out: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

At a loose end on Monday night at #UKSG2024 ? Here's where to go!

End of a depressing thread. Summary: the U.K. HE sector is in massive financial trouble but
-the govt doesn’t have a plan
-the HE sector doesn’t have a plan
-the OfS doesn’t have a plan

Unis should be engines driving levelling up across the UK but the ‘market’ isn’t working.

Thrilled to confirm venue for #UKSG2024 Copim Corner Social (kindly hosted & arranged by UKSG) same as last year: Finnieston Taphouse, 1046 Argyle Street, G3 8LY. ALL WELCOME! 7.30pm onwards. Come & meet colleagues old & new! 🥳 Thoth (@[email protected]) OpeningTheFuture Open Book Collective

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…

1/2 Going to #UKSG2024 this year? Forgot to buy a ticket to the quiz again? Don’t worry, you are invited to join us at the pub! Monday 8 April from 7.30pm. Come and say hi, stay for a chat about open access monographs and/or a drink at ...

Congratulations to our two new Trustees - Jennifer Bayjoo Jennifer Bayjoo, and Magaly Bascones - welcome to the Board! Thanks also to Claire Grace who is standing down - we appreciate all of you insights and hard work! See you all in Glasgow for #UKSG2024 !

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It was great to support Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and Chris Heid at PLOS in further exploring the landscape of open science indicators. Read about their latest efforts via the PLOS blog!

theplosblog.plos.org/2024/03/collab… #openscience #indicators #osi