Katie Hughes
@acraftylibrarian.bsky.social
Open Access Librarian living in the UK. Working in Open Access and academic publishing. May qualify as a yarn hoarder. Thoughts are my own. she/her
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"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
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November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
I stopped buying off Amazon a long time ago and found I can live quite happily without them.
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I stopped buying off Amazon a long time ago and found I can live quite happily without them.
It is nice to see a bit of good news out there (sometimes you have to dig for it).
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It is nice to see a bit of good news out there (sometimes you have to dig for it).
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It's that time of year again!
Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 Conference
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, and accessible […]
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Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 Conference
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, and accessible […]
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September 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's that time of year again!
Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 Conference
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, and accessible […]
[Original post on mastodonapp.uk]
Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 Conference
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, and accessible […]
[Original post on mastodonapp.uk]
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025
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Anne: budget uncertainty is possibly even worse than budget cuts. Makes it harder to commit to some of the smaller committments, particularly as they are easier to get out of than the parts of our locked in budgets. Need to stop multi year deals so we have budget flexibility. #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Anne: budget uncertainty is possibly even worse than budget cuts. Makes it harder to commit to some of the smaller committments, particularly as they are easier to get out of than the parts of our locked in budgets. Need to stop multi year deals so we have budget flexibility. #OASPA2025
We all know that publishing #OpenAccess increases citations and views, but there is also evidence that OA content has helped to shorten PhD studies from 6 years to 4 years in France. - Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We all know that publishing #OpenAccess increases citations and views, but there is also evidence that OA content has helped to shorten PhD studies from 6 years to 4 years in France. - Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri #OASPA2025
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CHALLENGE in China - researchers are pursing high impact journals not OA journals. There is a white list – containing about 1600 OA journals. These are the ones Chinese scholars want to publish in. This is an issue that will hinder full OA in China. #OASPA2025
September 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
CHALLENGE in China - researchers are pursing high impact journals not OA journals. There is a white list – containing about 1600 OA journals. These are the ones Chinese scholars want to publish in. This is an issue that will hinder full OA in China. #OASPA2025
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USEFUL breakdown of the process a large organisation underwent to adopt rights retention - presented by Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social at #OASPA2025 screen grab here but better version at www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...
September 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
USEFUL breakdown of the process a large organisation underwent to adopt rights retention - presented by Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social at #OASPA2025 screen grab here but better version at www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...
Poster presentation done. Only 5 mins but almost more daunting then a full session. Introducing EMBL's RRS to #OASPA2025
September 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Poster presentation done. Only 5 mins but almost more daunting then a full session. Introducing EMBL's RRS to #OASPA2025
Good thread 👇 on Hannah Hope's talk at #OASPA2025
Hannah Hope from Wellcome, and the forever reminder that in many parts of the world, OA isn't something that happens "after" (for a fee), but is the starting point of publishing. #OASPA2025 - paraphrasing, but the convos about a small global minority (US/UK/EU publishing) sucks up all the oxygen.
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Good thread 👇 on Hannah Hope's talk at #OASPA2025
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SHIFT: Wellcome 2021 OA policy had unexpected result- policy was perpetuating existing inequality in research ecosystem. So they added preprints to versions of articles accepted, create space for institutional rights retention, redirect funds from TAs towards wider ecosystem. Hannah Hope #OASPA2025
September 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
SHIFT: Wellcome 2021 OA policy had unexpected result- policy was perpetuating existing inequality in research ecosystem. So they added preprints to versions of articles accepted, create space for institutional rights retention, redirect funds from TAs towards wider ecosystem. Hannah Hope #OASPA2025
After Wellcome changed their #openaccess policy in 2021, they saw that publishers modify their workflows to detect WT funded papers and closed certain routes to publication. They also gave exceptions to "prestigious" authors while ECRs were not given the same opportunities 🤯 #OASPA2025
September 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
After Wellcome changed their #openaccess policy in 2021, they saw that publishers modify their workflows to detect WT funded papers and closed certain routes to publication. They also gave exceptions to "prestigious" authors while ECRs were not given the same opportunities 🤯 #OASPA2025
Question about why don't we just have article level metrics?
With the introduction of social media, this would be easily gameable. Single metrics are a fallacy we need a cloud of different metrics to assess. - Bernd Pulverer
With the introduction of social media, this would be easily gameable. Single metrics are a fallacy we need a cloud of different metrics to assess. - Bernd Pulverer
September 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Question about why don't we just have article level metrics?
With the introduction of social media, this would be easily gameable. Single metrics are a fallacy we need a cloud of different metrics to assess. - Bernd Pulverer
With the introduction of social media, this would be easily gameable. Single metrics are a fallacy we need a cloud of different metrics to assess. - Bernd Pulverer
What publishers can do to help change research assessment; Focus on contribution instead of authorship, acknowledge that the paper doesn't show the whole research process, focus on process not results - Yensi Flores Bueso, University College Cork & Global Young Academy #OASPA2025
September 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What publishers can do to help change research assessment; Focus on contribution instead of authorship, acknowledge that the paper doesn't show the whole research process, focus on process not results - Yensi Flores Bueso, University College Cork & Global Young Academy #OASPA2025
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Strongly agree:
We need to make OA “undeniable,” to the point where it sells itself. (Adapted from Stefan Tochev, MDPI)
#OASPA2025
We need to make OA “undeniable,” to the point where it sells itself. (Adapted from Stefan Tochev, MDPI)
#OASPA2025
September 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Strongly agree:
We need to make OA “undeniable,” to the point where it sells itself. (Adapted from Stefan Tochev, MDPI)
#OASPA2025
We need to make OA “undeniable,” to the point where it sells itself. (Adapted from Stefan Tochev, MDPI)
#OASPA2025
To sum up some of the feelings in the panel of OA APC based publishers: all are struggling to get support from funders and libraries to push through barriers, feels like you are being penalised for getting their first. - Catriona MacCallum #OASPA2025
September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
To sum up some of the feelings in the panel of OA APC based publishers: all are struggling to get support from funders and libraries to push through barriers, feels like you are being penalised for getting their first. - Catriona MacCallum #OASPA2025
There seems to be a general agreement that publishers need to be better at describing what they do and what their services are to provide evidence for their pricing. But they also need to talk to customers to ensure these are the services they actually want. #OASPA2025
September 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
There seems to be a general agreement that publishers need to be better at describing what they do and what their services are to provide evidence for their pricing. But they also need to talk to customers to ensure these are the services they actually want. #OASPA2025
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"We are not training researchers well on how to use AI. They have NO verification habits. We need to train them. In China they are introducing AI from first grade in school. We need to think collectively about this new skill set." @nataliamanola.bsky.social #OSfair2025
September 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"We are not training researchers well on how to use AI. They have NO verification habits. We need to train them. In China they are introducing AI from first grade in school. We need to think collectively about this new skill set." @nataliamanola.bsky.social #OSfair2025
As someone who studied history, I love when a presentation explains the historical context. I used to do that in my intro to OA explaining the history of publishing. I think some people thought I was crazy, but I enjoyed it 😊
#OSFair25
#OSFair25
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
As someone who studied history, I love when a presentation explains the historical context. I used to do that in my intro to OA explaining the history of publishing. I think some people thought I was crazy, but I enjoyed it 😊
#OSFair25
#OSFair25
There was a comment that it is a myth that everyone wants to publish in Nature and Science. It's so 5 years ago.
I would love to believe that is true but researchers I work with overwhelmingly publish with the big publishers. Haven't quite convinced them to change...yet.
#OSFair2025
I would love to believe that is true but researchers I work with overwhelmingly publish with the big publishers. Haven't quite convinced them to change...yet.
#OSFair2025
September 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
There was a comment that it is a myth that everyone wants to publish in Nature and Science. It's so 5 years ago.
I would love to believe that is true but researchers I work with overwhelmingly publish with the big publishers. Haven't quite convinced them to change...yet.
#OSFair2025
I would love to believe that is true but researchers I work with overwhelmingly publish with the big publishers. Haven't quite convinced them to change...yet.
#OSFair2025
SCOAP3 is a similar model as Open Research Europe but in a niche area. ORE will be able to create an ecosystem, available to everyone, funded by a community of the willing - Alex Kohls, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
#OSFair2025
#OSFair2025
September 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
SCOAP3 is a similar model as Open Research Europe but in a niche area. ORE will be able to create an ecosystem, available to everyone, funded by a community of the willing - Alex Kohls, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
#OSFair2025
#OSFair2025