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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
For those following along at home... We heard back positively from 15% of these authors within 1 day. Everyone was on board with doing this. The biggest concern is interpreting the different versions of the article for submission.

#OAweek
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Last one. Caveats abound but for what it's worth.

#OAweek
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We also looked at all the 'closed' articles to see which had a 'free' way to post a green OA compliant. Here's how that shook down for each stage. We are going to contact about 10% of the article authors to have them consider depositing a copy in the repository. Wish us luck.

#OAweek
October 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Some highlights... Over a million bucks on APCs and almost a 50/50 split on born OA versus closed.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy
September 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The worst of all bummers.
July 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It says it is wrong right in the stupid picture! Who is gonna buy this crap? NM, I think I know.
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thanks for chronicling the talk!

Reading this makes me really miss the bird site days.
May 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Part of my origin story I guess.
February 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM