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OAPEN & DOAB sign up to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. Excellent news.
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🔊 OAPEN & DOAB have just published their POSI (Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure) self-audit - read all about it and download the full self-audit here! 📖

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Your occasional reminder that Mary Midgley's book "The Myths We Live By" is #OpenAccess and you should read it.

"We are accustomed to think of myths as the opposite of science. But in fact they are a central part of it: the part that decides its significance in our lives. So we very much need to understand them."

#Philosophy #Midgley

Realised I've never shared Napoleon the feral kitty's story here, so here we go.

This is Napoleon, and this is the story of his nine-month journey from a hungry, desperate feral street cat to snuggly duvet monster. /1 🧵 #cats

Championing equitable access in Latin America – Hola Arturo

Welcome Arturo Garduño-Magaña to DataCite!

doi.org/10.5438/3vkk-n412

Leading DataCite’s Global Access Program in Africa – Welcome Bosun Obileye

doi.org/10.5438/7wa9-zf62

Dear #fediverse, please tag me when you come across #meowlogisms (i.e. cat-inspired wordplay) in any language, like the well-known purrfect or caturday.

I collect these words - for science (#linguistics). Thank you 🐈

@linguistics #DigitalHumanities #FurensicLinguistics

I have uploaded the slides from my #Force2023 keynote into @zenodo_org@bird. 'When institutions fail communities get busy: Putting open scholarly data into the hands of people who care'. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7851563 #opensource #openaccess #community #innovation

The Thoth open metadata management and dissemination platform for #OAbooks, developed by @COPIMproject is now on Mastodon @Thoth_metadata!

Follow them for all things open metadata #MetadataMatters #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure

Are commercial lead-tables deciding the value of your research where you work? Out of such frustration @LucyMontgomery_ and Cameron Neylon – created open.coki.ac/ – to help universities track their performance as #OpenKnowledge Institutions
#FORCE2023

‼️Reminder ‼️
10 days till the proposal deadline for our Special Issue, “Turning It off and Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship”

#libraries #libraryTwitter #archives #critLib #criticalCataloging #digitalHumanities #dh #digitalScholarship

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Hi akademienl.social peeps. Apparently there is this fake account on Twitter. Which is really annoying.

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The Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Project (2022-2025) is focused on creating a sustainable OA book focused analytics service. During this project, we are scaling up from our prototype dashboard to a fully functioning service.
In the first quarter of 2023, we carried out a series of focus groups with publishers to test some ideas and get their feedback to help inform our future decisions.

Learn more in our blog post:
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