Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org

Important new European support for #diamond #openaccess journals.
https://operas.hypotheses.org/6016

"The project 'Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access' (CRAFT-OA)…focuses on 4 strands of action to improve the Diamond OA model: (1) Provide technical improvements for journal platforms…(2) Foster overall infrastructure improvement (3) Increase visibility [&] discoverability…for Diamond OA publishing (4) Integrate Diamond OA publishing w/ the European Open Science Cloud (#EOSC)."

This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.

This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.

#cats #printers

Dear #researchers (except @ideinfo@twitter who I already asked) I would like to #know your habits on #citing #digital #openacces publications. a) Do you cite ebooks in #epub format? b1) If a pdf edition and an epub edition exists do you read the epub edition? b2) If a pdf edition and an epub edition exists which edition do you cite? c) If a print edition, a pdf edition and an epub edition exist which edition dou you cite? Thanks.

Wow! The collection of the Directory of Open Access Books (http://www.doabooks.org - @DOABooks ) has just moved past the 63,000 mark. #OpenAccess #OABooks

Wonderful blog post and recommended reading for everyone interested in scholarly publishing: the rise and fall of peer review https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review. It is time to move on and spend our time on more important activities.

“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”

I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)

Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.

This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.

My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.

#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts

DID YOU KNOW?
Fennec foxes are stackable, making them easy to store.

#fox #fact

Some of my upcoming projects at Crossref https://eve.gd/2022/12/10/some-of-my-upcoming-projects-at-crossref/

A Book Acknowledgment

#Introduction The HuMetricsHSS Initiative (https://humetricshss.org) is a project rethinking indicators of scholarly excellence in the academy. We strive to enact our own framework of scholarly values—Equity, Openness, Collegiality, Soundness, and Community—in everything that we do. Through our workshops and tools we seek to empower others to create and enact their own values frameworks.

At the heart of our work is the recognition that the culture of higher education is shaped by the daily practices of thousands of scholars and administrators. By orienting scholars and institutions toward the values about which they care most deeply and by providing them with structured ways to intentionally embody those values in the practices of knowledge creation, sharing, and evaluation, we hope to help individuals, departments, colleges, and academic institutions reshape the culture of higher education so that it is more humane, supportive, and just.

Tech doesn't have #ecosystems, it has #plantations
https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/

by @mariafarrell