Mark Swartz
@mark-swartz.bsky.social
Scholarly Publishing Librarian at Queen’s University. Visiting Program Officer for Open Science at the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
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This week's #ElertCyberavis features recent news and publications relevant to Canadian research libraries from @torontomet.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @coalitions-oa.bsky.social @mark-swartz.bsky.social @masudk.com @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social @clirnews.bsky.social and more!
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November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This week's #ElertCyberavis features recent news and publications relevant to Canadian research libraries from @torontomet.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @coalitions-oa.bsky.social @mark-swartz.bsky.social @masudk.com @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social @clirnews.bsky.social and more!
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In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. @caut.bsky.social have started a petition to PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Sign here: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. @caut.bsky.social have started a petition to PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Sign here: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
Awesome and inspiring stuff from Mita here. My favourite talk out of many great ones at the “Legacy of CCH” conference.
Today I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025.
Here is my talk: "Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power"
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Here is my talk: "Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power"
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Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power
On September 20th, 2025, I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025. Here is my talk.
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September 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Awesome and inspiring stuff from Mita here. My favourite talk out of many great ones at the “Legacy of CCH” conference.
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”
The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then ...
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June 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”
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amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down
April 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down
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Amazon has quietly redefined ownership as a vaguely permanent rentals
As this date approaches, worth noting that if you own an older kindle there IS still a way to get an Actual File if you manage your ebook library with calibre etc:
Send books wirelessly to kindle, plug kindle into PC w USB, open "documents" folder on kindle; single file versions will be there.
Send books wirelessly to kindle, plug kindle into PC w USB, open "documents" folder on kindle; single file versions will be there.
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
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February 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Amazon has quietly redefined ownership as a vaguely permanent rentals
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ORCID endorses the Barcelona Declaration - ORCID https://info.orcid.org/orcid-endorses-the-barcelona-declaration/
ORCID endorses the Barcelona Declaration
<p>After thorough review and discussion with the ORCID Board late last year, ORCID is happy to announce our endorsement of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information as an institutional […]</p>
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February 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
ORCID endorses the Barcelona Declaration - ORCID https://info.orcid.org/orcid-endorses-the-barcelona-declaration/
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This journal is leaning hard into the discourse around open science. It's quite a good illustration of the weaponization of 'transparency' to legitimise a publishing effort.
From @walkerbragman.bsky.social, more on the RealClear journal of COVID contrarians.
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“A New Academic Publishing Model”: Right-Wing Dark Money Group Launches Fringe Medical Journal
The right-wing RealClear Foundation’s foray into public health has been called “a mockery of scientific process.”
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February 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This journal is leaning hard into the discourse around open science. It's quite a good illustration of the weaponization of 'transparency' to legitimise a publishing effort.
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"if you are a tenured academic, you should be devoting a bunch of your time to cultivating alternatives to the usual money-sucking journal racket."
New blogpost. Long, but punctuated by a bunch of silly pictures! Partially a rebuke of scientific societies, partially an advertisement for the WikiJournal of Science.
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Scientists! What are you supporting?
Much has been said about how expensive academic journals are. Large companies like Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley publish most of the major journals, and their sha…
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January 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"if you are a tenured academic, you should be devoting a bunch of your time to cultivating alternatives to the usual money-sucking journal racket."
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142 - Library publishing and NISO feat. Mike Nason
This week we have @ahemnason.bsky.social on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core.
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This week we have @ahemnason.bsky.social on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core.
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142 - Library publishing and NISO feat. Mike Nason | librarypunk
This week we have Mike Nason on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core.
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December 30, 2024 at 1:26 PM
142 - Library publishing and NISO feat. Mike Nason
This week we have @ahemnason.bsky.social on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core.
www.librarypunk.gay/e/142-librar...
This week we have @ahemnason.bsky.social on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core.
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This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine!
Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
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December 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM
This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine!
Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
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New, important paper on surveillance publishing: 'The Citation Economy as a Site of Extraction for Surveillance Publishing'
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December 18, 2024 at 6:29 PM
New, important paper on surveillance publishing: 'The Citation Economy as a Site of Extraction for Surveillance Publishing'