Tim R
@elibtronic.bsky.social
Scholarly Publishing and Platforms Librarian from Brock U. Also PhD candidate. Big fan of computational notebooks and academic labour issues.
You can get me at the other place with: @elibtronic@code4lib.social
You can get me at the other place with: @elibtronic@code4lib.social
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As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.
For #OAweek this year we published a report based on @OpenAlex@mastodon.social data that highlights how much OA we publish and how much money was spent on APCs last academic year.
elibtronic.github.io/2025_state_o...
elibtronic.github.io/2025_state_o...
2025 State of Scholarly Publishing
elibtronic.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
For #OAweek this year we published a report based on @OpenAlex@mastodon.social data that highlights how much OA we publish and how much money was spent on APCs last academic year.
elibtronic.github.io/2025_state_o...
elibtronic.github.io/2025_state_o...
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hello library workers. I am also a library worker. I would like to announce that the Code4Lib North sort-of-conference is this December 3-4th at McMaster University in Hamilton. Come on by if you got the gumption. Signup/info (info still be fleshed - signup is live though) at wiki.code4lib.org/North
North - Code4Lib
wiki.code4lib.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
hello library workers. I am also a library worker. I would like to announce that the Code4Lib North sort-of-conference is this December 3-4th at McMaster University in Hamilton. Come on by if you got the gumption. Signup/info (info still be fleshed - signup is live though) at wiki.code4lib.org/North
New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship for a special issue entitled: Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements.
I'm one of the guest editors and I would love to see your submission. HMU if you have questions!
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
#lis
I'm one of the guest editors and I would love to see your submission. HMU if you have questions!
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
#lis
Call for proposals: CJAL special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines
| Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
cjal.ca
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship for a special issue entitled: Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements.
I'm one of the guest editors and I would love to see your submission. HMU if you have questions!
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
#lis
I'm one of the guest editors and I would love to see your submission. HMU if you have questions!
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
#lis
I was on a picket line today.
@bufa.bsky.social Executive stands in #solidarity with @opseusefpo.bsky.social! #onpse #StrikeSupport #SaveOurColleges
September 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I was on a picket line today.
Screen shots are my love language.
August 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Screen shots are my love language.
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📢Join us Aug 27 @ 1PM ET for the Canadian Repositories CoP's Article Release Party kickoff! 🌟
We’ll explore how institutional repositories can better support community-based research, featuring a talk by Robyn Hall (MacEwan).
🔗 Details and registration: www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...
We’ll explore how institutional repositories can better support community-based research, featuring a talk by Robyn Hall (MacEwan).
🔗 Details and registration: www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...
July 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
📢Join us Aug 27 @ 1PM ET for the Canadian Repositories CoP's Article Release Party kickoff! 🌟
We’ll explore how institutional repositories can better support community-based research, featuring a talk by Robyn Hall (MacEwan).
🔗 Details and registration: www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...
We’ll explore how institutional repositories can better support community-based research, featuring a talk by Robyn Hall (MacEwan).
🔗 Details and registration: www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...
According to some DOI analysis that I'm doing, someone at MPOW has published over 200 'journal articles' that have a CrossRef DOI. This is year to date!
github.com/elibtronic/g...
github.com/elibtronic/g...
July 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
According to some DOI analysis that I'm doing, someone at MPOW has published over 200 'journal articles' that have a CrossRef DOI. This is year to date!
github.com/elibtronic/g...
github.com/elibtronic/g...
This is a glass plate slide I saw at the museum in Amsterdam. I like how pagan it is.
July 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is a glass plate slide I saw at the museum in Amsterdam. I like how pagan it is.
Apparently the point of this is that you are not supposed to like the food and abundance, but to look at Jesus giving a sermon in the background.
*Jim eyes to camera*
*Jim eyes to camera*
June 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Apparently the point of this is that you are not supposed to like the food and abundance, but to look at Jesus giving a sermon in the background.
*Jim eyes to camera*
*Jim eyes to camera*
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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
Read this last week. Was great to see a section about Library and Info Lit stuff.
May 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Read this last week. Was great to see a section about Library and Info Lit stuff.
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New peer-reviewed article published:
Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University
doi.org/10.26522/bro...
#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #NewManagerialism #PublicIntellectuals
Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University
doi.org/10.26522/bro...
#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #NewManagerialism #PublicIntellectuals
Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University
| Brock Education Journal
doi.org
May 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New peer-reviewed article published:
Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University
doi.org/10.26522/bro...
#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #NewManagerialism #PublicIntellectuals
Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University
doi.org/10.26522/bro...
#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #NewManagerialism #PublicIntellectuals
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Just published: Our analysis of collective agreements at Canadian universities shows significant variation in protecting academic freedom. Important implications for faculty rights and institutional governance.
Read more: doi.org/10.58188/194...
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
Read more: doi.org/10.58188/194...
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
doi.org
March 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just published: Our analysis of collective agreements at Canadian universities shows significant variation in protecting academic freedom. Important implications for faculty rights and institutional governance.
Read more: doi.org/10.58188/194...
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
Read more: doi.org/10.58188/194...
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
My academic world has contracted enough that I am presenting a paper at a conference and a person that I'm quoting a bunch is giving a plenary. I'm about as niche as possible now.
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
#phdlife
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
#phdlife
Marx in the Anthropocene
Capital, Nature, Ecology, Environment: An interdisciplinary conference taking place in Venice from March 11 to 14, 2025.
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My academic world has contracted enough that I am presenting a paper at a conference and a person that I'm quoting a bunch is giving a plenary. I'm about as niche as possible now.
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
#phdlife
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
#phdlife
12 months to hear a 'no' on a journal submission. The no doesn't bother me, that is part of life. 12 months is the tough part in all of this.
February 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
12 months to hear a 'no' on a journal submission. The no doesn't bother me, that is part of life. 12 months is the tough part in all of this.
I was feeling a bit nostalgic about our the Lab's old podcast so I decide to topic model our transcripts to see what we talked about
github.com/elibtronic/S...
github.com/elibtronic/S...
January 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I was feeling a bit nostalgic about our the Lab's old podcast so I decide to topic model our transcripts to see what we talked about
github.com/elibtronic/S...
github.com/elibtronic/S...
In March I will be going to Venice to present a paper at this conference. I am very excited for this.
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
Marx in the Anthropocene
Capital, Nature, Ecology, Environment: An interdisciplinary conference taking place in Venice from March 11 to 14, 2025.
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In March I will be going to Venice to present a paper at this conference. I am very excited for this.
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
www.marxintheanthropocene.com
Here's some news. My title has changed (3rd times' a charm right?)
January 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Here's some news. My title has changed (3rd times' a charm right?)
Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025
December 29, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025
Verso had a sale.... I bought 3 books for like 5$. All ebooks of course. I am weak, especially cause you don't need to pile these on the nightstand and invade your life. They live in your inbox until you are ready for them.
December 29, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Verso had a sale.... I bought 3 books for like 5$. All ebooks of course. I am weak, especially cause you don't need to pile these on the nightstand and invade your life. They live in your inbox until you are ready for them.
A new special issue of the CAUT Journal all about the labour activism of post-secondary education information workers is now available online.
See the full issue: journal.caut.ca/index.php/caut
See the full issue: journal.caut.ca/index.php/caut
December 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
A new special issue of the CAUT Journal all about the labour activism of post-secondary education information workers is now available online.
See the full issue: journal.caut.ca/index.php/caut
See the full issue: journal.caut.ca/index.php/caut
I'm not very psyched about the new issue of CJAL. Not enough Canadian focus.
I mean come on, we don't have Land Grant schools in Canada.
I mean come on, we don't have Land Grant schools in Canada.
December 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
I'm not very psyched about the new issue of CJAL. Not enough Canadian focus.
I mean come on, we don't have Land Grant schools in Canada.
I mean come on, we don't have Land Grant schools in Canada.
This is the journal with the top IF in Journal Citation Reports for Library Science.
4k$ for OA, F, right off.
4k$ for OA, F, right off.
December 11, 2024 at 4:22 PM
This is the journal with the top IF in Journal Citation Reports for Library Science.
4k$ for OA, F, right off.
4k$ for OA, F, right off.
So the churn goes pretty fast here on Blu? I haven't seen it anywhere here so I'll post:
New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship.
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship.
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
CJAL Special Issue: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship
| Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
cjal.ca
December 10, 2024 at 3:02 AM
So the churn goes pretty fast here on Blu? I haven't seen it anywhere here so I'll post:
New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship.
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship.
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...