This new SFDORA repository of case studies on how institutions have made changes is helpful https://sfdora.org/dora-case-studies/ Assessment criteria for promotion form an ongoing blockage to fixing publishing practices (e.g. moving toward innovative #OA models)
The European court of human rights has ordered 33 European governments to respond to a landmark climate lawsuit lodged by six youth campaigners.
Will oligopolistic academic publishers (SNSI) get to plant surveillance software in libraries? https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/spyware-in-libraries/ No, libraries are not passive recipients of such tech. Librarians wouldn't allow such a thing because it'd go contrary to our professional code(s) of ethics. Mehta's article is good but only mentioned "digital rights advocates and scientists." Since it concerned libraries, I felt there should be a librarian's perspective so I just blogged a bit here https://www.phydeau.org/chroknowlogy/information-ethics/2020/publishers-proposing-surveillance-tech-on-libraries/
"Reparative Aesthetics: The Museum’s Incarceration of Indigenous Life" is an online talk this afternoon (2 - 4pm EST) with Dylan Robinson: thá:ytset: shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts'etáwtxw. It looks really interesting! Register for free here:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dylan-robinson-thaytset-shxweli-li-te-shxwelitemelh-xitsetawtxw-tickets-126454923079
This positive announcement on a new collaboration to preserve fully #OpenAccess journals is important (and on World Day of Digital Preservation #WDPD20). The DOAJ, the CLOCKSS Archive, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry/ISSN International Centre and Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have a new initiative for archiving these #OA journals. Info here: https://blog.doaj.org/2020/11/05/doaj-to-lead-a-collaboration-to-improve-the-preservation-of-open-access-journals/
The mail just delivered my copy of Richard Ovenden's new "Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack" which I'm looking forward to. Nice this arrived during #OAWeek as #OpenAccess helps somewhat prevent the erasure/destruction of knowledge. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/10/burning-the-books-by-richard-ovenden-review-knowledge-under-attack
If you're a university educator and want to ask your deans, provosts etc. to take a principled stand against automated proctoring systems, feel free to adapt this text: https://gist.github.com/jboynyc/f457bf217265628730def07264176dc1
It's #OAweek read about how Québec university libraries espouse open & free access to knowledge. https://library.concordia.ca/about/news/#guid=https://library.concordia.ca/about/news/#i19_Oct_2020_10:09:00_EDT — #OpenAccess
Concordia students, come to my GradPro Skills workshop to learn about #CreativeCommons licences and how they enable #OpenAccess — https://www.concordia.ca/students/gradproskills/workshops/details.html?subject_area=GPLL&catalog_number=246 — Find out more about #OpenAccess here http://www.openaccessweek.org
Proctorio tries to silence learning technologist
A Learning Technology Specialist at UBC was rightly critical of Proctorio so the company is suing him - https://defend.linkletter.org/ . Considering the ethical, technical or other transgressions of automated test proctoring/surveillance tools like Proctorio, it's worth spreading the word. His legal defence: GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-against-proctorio campaign.
Good blog post here: In Defence of Ian Linkletter - https://blog.communityofpraxis.ca/2020/09/03/in-defence-of-ian-linkletter/
There is now a Mastodon instance for publishing scientists: FediScience.
Everyone is welcome from PhD student to professor, as well as researchers from outside of academia. You are welcome to stay afterwards, but it is also easy to change to another server.
There will be a lot of science talk on this server, but there is no need to only talk science
https://fediscience.org/invite/j6X8z7qF
Boosts are appreciated to let others know about this new instance.
Stick with it. Often "...distraction is your brain ducking challenging feelings such as boredom, loneliness, insecurity, fatigue and uncertainty. These are the internal triggers – the root causes – that prompt you to find the comfort of distraction" https://psyche.co/guides/to-become-indistractable-recognise-that-it-starts-within-you
JSTOR summing up library anxiety. I enjoyed this but its target audience is more-likely non-librarians. https://daily.jstor.org/do-you-suffer-from-library-anxiety/
shameless self promotion of my new paper
Our new article is finally published!
'What’s Wrong with Digital Stewardship: Evaluating the Organization of Digital Preservation Programs from Practitioners’ Perspectives"
Basically we (Peggy, Shira, Karl, Julia, and I) asked ~25 digital preservation practitioners about their workplace and the fields' downward workplace satisfaction trend and analyzed their answers.
Article (open access): https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol7/iss1/13
Data (mostly open except the interview transcripts themselves, participant protection): https://data.qdr.syr.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5064/F6DJRPLK
Definition of a museum? I hadn't been following this issue so this article surprised me, it's not very in-depth but it does raise interesting complex points. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/arts/what-is-a-museum.html
Listen, let's make less noise and allow for the natural ambient sounds of our world https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/12/news/listening-silence-why-we-must-protect-worlds-quiet-places
Scholar Social is hosting a free online conference, #SummerSchool !
And we're looking for presenters!
If you're a writer, researcher, formal academic, or anyone with expertise that you'd like to share, presentation spots are 10-15 min long (no formal credentials required, open to people on any Fedi instance, not just scholar.social)
Sign up by 2020 July 12 here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18CAAtWVJ_zbqMArQWTmcP6VS5I3B_uapnOT-LQU8hVQ/edit
Digital Scholarship, Journalism & Communication Studies #Librarian | #bibliothécaire, Concordia U, Montréal. Exploring information ecosystem edges & ethics