Happy #OAWeek2025 🎉

🚀First webinar for #OAWeek2025 in Australasia is underway
This session brings together speakers from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia to explore how government administrations are exerting ownership and control over knowledge, shaping narratives and gatekeeping access #OpenAccess 🌏

Todays #copyright query: I'm about to publish and I've quoted this song, do I need permission?

Lyrics are covered by copyright, so yes you do! However, this was actually the song title, so a citation with suffice!

#bannedbooksweek #censorship
bannedbooksweek.org

Day 1 of #copyright
Email from student: "Now I'm not copyright lawyer, but I think this falls under this clause... "

cool, cool, cool 🤣

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again.

So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels.
#PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

Todays #research / #study #reading is Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Guidance

Graphical Abstracts? What do we think? #research #publishing #academia

#reading #OpenAccess transitional agreements:
"To the extent that profit-seeking continues to exist, it should be fair and limited, with appropriate investment into the scholarly community that it services"
Bolick, J., et al (2024). doi.org/10.31274/jls...

OA201 Course launched today for members 🚀
A new advanced coursed in #OpenScholarship
Many thanks to the OA201 Working Group for their generous support in the development of the new course
#OpenAccess #OA201
oaaustralasia.org/registration...

To all of my librarian friends—finally a worthy coffee cup.
#library #librarian

I hate restarting these things... Where are all my #Library #librarian #LIS peeps? particularly #researchLIS

Holla BSKY