Joshua Chalifour @jc@scholar.social

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)

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

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

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/

Thumbing through pages to look up something in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, first sentence under "principle of contradiction" caught my eye: "also called principle of non-contradiction, the principle that a statement and its negation cannot both be true." love that

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/

Waiting to cross the street. I love this sign...

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