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Caroline Mort
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OA Journals Managing Editor @ UNC Press
Communications @ Authors Alliance
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carolinemort.bsky.social
every photo on Wikipedia was taken in 2007
August 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
carolinemort.bsky.social
Looking for folks who keep logs, records, or any form of documentation about some aspect of their life, community, or environment to submit to Journal Journal (9/1 Deadline):

journaljournal.net
Journal Journal
journal journal is a journal about journal entires
journaljournal.net
June 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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archive.org
🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
🧵
June 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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marcellaflamme.bsky.social
One of the most promising efforts to really showcase institutional publishing, and an incredible bargain relative to the $$$ libraries have locked up in subscriptions and TAs. Kudos to BTAA for trying to salvage this important work 😡
May 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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authorsalliance.bsky.social
AI Licensing, Open Access and Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with Charles Watkinson, Director of the University of Michigan Press

Full interview here: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/04/29/a...
AI Licensing, Open Access and Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with Charles Watkinson, Director of the University of Michigan Press
Below is an interview with Charles Watkinson, Director of the University of Michigan Press and Associate University Librarian for Publishing at University of Michigan Library. In it, we explore Mic…
www.authorsalliance.org
April 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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unabridgedopinions.com
Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...

#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
ERICA to the Rescue!
ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...
www.datarescueproject.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
carolinemort.bsky.social
“The whole main power distribution center exploded.”

www.thecollegianur.com/article/2025...
BREAKING: Classes canceled after snake constricts campus power
The University of Richmond cancelled classes when the campus lost power after a snake got into the main power plant Sunday night, to UR facilities.
www.thecollegianur.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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authorsalliance.bsky.social
SPARC's OA 101 series is back. Dave Hansen will be speaking on Copyright and Open Access on June 4. Register below!
sparcopen.bsky.social SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · Apr 2
Save the dates: April 30, May 14 & June 4 to learn more about #OpenAccess! SPARC is partnering w/ the Scholarly Communications Notebook team to host a 2nd round of our OA101 series. Webinars are free & open to anyone working in libraries. Register for one or all: sparcopen.org/news/2025/oa...
OA 101 Round 2: Visibility & Impact, Problematizing “Predatory” Publishing, and Authors Rights - SPARC
sparcopen.org
April 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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authorsalliance.bsky.social
Join us and @archive.org for another book talk with Jennifer Jenkins, author of Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture, exploring how copyright shapes the music we love.

April 10 at 2pm ET / 11am PT

www.authorsalliance.org/2025/03/31/b...
BOOK TALK: MUSIC COPYRIGHT, CREATIVITY, AND CULTURE
Join us for a book talk with Jennifer Jenkins, author of Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture, exploring how copyright shapes the music we love – from historical influences to modern challenges…
www.authorsalliance.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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lisarcarter.bsky.social
You may have noticed that the websites and datasets associated with many U.S. federal agencies and initiatives have been scaled back or removed. @umichlibrary.bsky.social offers links to rescued and archival datasets other orgs have been pulling together. guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=2832...
Research Guides: United States Government Information: Missing Government Websites and Data
Provides primary source information, documents, reports or publications produced by the legislative, executive and judicial branches of US federal government.
guides.lib.umich.edu
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
carolinemort.bsky.social
In light of the latest executive order, a breakdown of IMLS’s mandatory and discretionary programs:

www.everylibraryinstitute.org/imls_shall_m...
Understanding IMLS's “Shall” and “May” Language
EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.
www.everylibraryinstitute.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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authorsalliance.bsky.social
New piece from Dave Hansen, Authors Alliance Exec Dir., and Günter Waibel, on the interplay between open access to scholarship and AI training and development:

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
AI deals underscore importance of open access (opinion)
For those feeling queasy about academic publishers’ AI deals, Günter Waibel and Dave Hansen argue the way forward is not more restrictive licenses—it’s open access.
www.insidehighered.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tedunderwood.com
Anyone know what the licensing deal is for this collab between the Bodleian and OpenAI? Will public domain things actually become public? or is this a repeat of Google Books where they're in reality locked down by contractual arrangement w/ the digitizer? www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...
Oxford and OpenAI launch collaboration to advance research and education
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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tedunderwood.com
Preprint argues that LLMs outperform traditional approaches to handwriting recognition, especially with few-shot prompting. + arxiv.org/abs/2501.11623
Early evidence of how LLMs outperform traditional systems on OCR/HTR tasks for historical records
We explore the ability of two LLMs -- GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 -- to transcribe historical handwritten documents in a tabular format and compare their performance to traditional OCR/HTR systems: E...
arxiv.org
January 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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nolauren.bsky.social
Looking to teach with Humanities Data in R?The second edition of our book is now out! Updates include tidyverse, new data sets, latest code techniques, and more!
Available through many libraries. We also have a digital teaching component. DM or email for access! #digitalhumanities #datascience
January 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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nic221.bsky.social
Nvidia unveils Project Digits personal AI supercomputer for researchers and students https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-unveils-project-digits-personal-ai-supercomputer-for-researchers-and-students/ #AI #Nvidia
Text Shot: “At Hugging Face, we want to make it easy for developers to build their own AI. Nvidia’s Project Digits will empower AI builders to build and run their own Gen AI models and systems at the edge. With 128GB of unified memory, AI builders can run 200B parameter models locally, and connect multiple Project Digits systems to scale from there. I can’t wait to see what the Hugging Face community will build with Nvidia Project Digits,” said Je Boudier, Head of Product at Hugging Face, in a statement.
January 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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upjohninstitute.bsky.social
Our Brian Asquith presents research on the effects of evictions from rent-controlled units in San Francisco … in San Francisco, at the #ASSA2025 conference. More on this research and other research being presented at the conference at the link.
What happens to tenants when landlords quit the rent-controlled market? ASSA research focus
A California law lets landlords evict all tenants and pull an entire building from the rent-controlled market. But what happens to the people in these expensive cities who suddenly find themselves…
buff.ly
December 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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miaout.bsky.social
I really like the way the National Library of Luxembourg BnL has pre-made starter, dev, sample, OCR, machine learning etc downloads of their digitised newspapers https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/ #newspapers #CollectionsAsData
Historical Newspapers – BnL Open Data
Every document has been digitised using international and open standards, such as TIFF, XML, METS et ALTO.
data.bnl.lu
December 20, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
font on German license plates
December 13, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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librarycopyright.bsky.social
Looking for a deeper dive into how copyright law affects specific functions and areas of libraries, such as Interlibrary Loan, course reserves, or text data mining? We're adding our deep dive workshop recordings to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/@lib...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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tedunderwood.com
So glad to see recognition that AI has increased the urgency of open culture initiatives.
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · Dec 12
Harvard says it's releasing a high-quality dataset of ~1M public-domain books, created with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, to help train LLMs and AI tools (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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authorsalliance.bsky.social
We're super pleased to announce today a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to address many of the challenges we've associated with AI training and books:

"Developing a public interest training commons of books"

Read more: www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...
Developing a public-interest training commons of books
Photo by Zetong Li on Unsplash Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable plan for a public-interest book training commons f…
www.authorsalliance.org
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.
bittersoutherner.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM