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Niels-Oliver Walkowski

I am delighted to announce our #OpenDivideLecture Series! Explore critical reflections about #OpenAccess with global experts online, every month for one year. Register now: opendivide.hypotheses.org/open #AcademicPublishing
#Conferences

Open DivideOpen Divide 2025/2026 — Speakers and TopicsIn 2018, Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access examined the transformation of scholarly communication, questioning dominant narratives and highlighting unresolved controversies. Now, seven years later we, Joachim Schöpfel (Université de Lille, France), Ulrich Herb (Saarland University, Germany), and Niels-Oliver Walkowski (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) launch a twelve-month lecture series as a foundation for a … Continue reading "Open Divide 2025/2026 — Speakers and Topics"
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jbz

“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

｢ The true threat from AI models training on open access material is not that more people may access knowledge thanks to new modalities. It’s that those models may stifle Wikipedia and other free knowledge repositories, benefiting from the labor, money, and care that goes into supporting them while also bleeding them dry ｣

citationneeded.news/free-and-o

Citation Needed · “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AIThe real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
#ai#genai#copyright
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Canadian Association For Food Studies

Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters

Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony

Details and Tickets: foodstudies.info/news-conferen

#CongreSSH #FoodStudies #Toronto #Food #TorontoFoodie #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics #FoodArt #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025

Canadian Association for Food StudiesUpcoming ConferenceFoundations, Evolutions, and Revolutions We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Canadian Association for Food Studies Assembly will be hosted at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario from June 2- June 5, 2025, and will be delivered in conjunction with the Federation for Humanities & Social Sciences Congress (running
#OpenAccess#BooksAboutFood#Agriculture
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IDAHO

📢 🟢 Seeking journal #editors to participate in the #IDAHO_project interviews!

➡️ We are launching a series of #interviews with #journal editors and #publishers to explore the strategies & initiatives they have in place to support authors without strong ties to #academia

🌍 Editors from all disciplines can participate
🕒 40 minute

If you would like to share your perspective, please get in touch👇

➡️ projects.tib.eu/idaho/en/news/

projects.tib.euSeeking Journal Editors to Participate in the IDAHO Project Interviews
#AcademicPublishing#OpenAccess#barriersOA
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Nolwenn Pamart

Alors que j'amorce une #migration sur une instance plus universitaire, je refais une petite #introduction !

Conservatrice des bibliothèques, j'ai pris une disponibilité pour entamer un contrat doctoral en **littérature française** et **humanités numériques**, au sein de la chaire d'excellence en édition numérique, en co-tutelle entre l'Université de Rouen et l'Université de Montréal.

Mon sujet de thèse porte sur la réception de la figure de #NinondeLenclos à travers son histoire éditoriale, de la fin du XVIIe au début du XXe siècle.

Dans mes précédentes vies, j'ai, en vrac :
- Travaillé sur le #JDR en bibliothèque
- Me suis spécialisée dans les services aux chercheurs
- Traîné du côté de l'#écriturecréative. J'ai notamment publié un recueil de nouvelles et quelques nouvelles en anthologies

Je vais rapatrier progressivement mes abonnements & prendre mes marques, mais je me suis dit que comme je partageais de plus en plus des éléments sur mon activité universitaire, il était plus pertinent d'intervenir ici.

Au plaisir d'interagir !

#openaccess#humanites_numeriques#teamESR
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Matt Hodgkinson

In a speech at the High Court of King Diarmaid in 6th Century Ireland, St. Columba aka Colmcille advocated for the right to copy books ~1500 years before the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Ray Corrigan, 2007 oro.open.ac.uk/10332/1/GIKII_C).

Diarmaid ruled against him; Colmcille's subsequent rebellion led to 3000 deaths in the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o

More in @mmasnick's #TechDirt article: techdirt.com/2009/08/20/the-ve

"My friend's claim seeks to apply a worn out law to a new reality. Books are different to other chattels (possessions) and the law should recognise this. Learned men like us, who have received a new heritage of knowledge through books, have an obligation to spread that knowledge, by copying and distributing those books far and wide. I haven't used up Finnian's book by copying it. He still has the original and that original is none the worse for my having copied it. Nor has it decreased in value because I made a transcript of it. The knowledge in books should be available to anybody who wants to read them and has the skills or is worthy to do so; and it is wrong to hide such knowledge away or to attempt to extinguish the divine things that books contain. It is wrong to attempt to prevent me or anyone else from copying it or reading it or making multiple copies to disperse throughout the land. In conclusion I submit that it was permissible for me to copy the book because, although I benefited from the hard work involved in the transcription, I gained no worldly profit from the process, I acted for the good of society in general and neither Finnian nor his book were harmed."
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#OpenAccess#StColumba#Colmcille
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anotherfami

"Rather than viewing this as a crisis, librarians should embrace it as a call to action—by strengthening institutional repositories, advocating for open-access policies, and guiding users toward legal alternatives. Librarians are not just custodians of knowledge; they are facilitators of equitable access. Now is the time to shape a more open and legally accessible scholarly landscape."

librarianshipstudies.com/2025/

www.librarianshipstudies.comBeyond LibGen: The Role of Librarians in the Post-Shadow Library EraLibrarianship Studies is the best award-winning and internationally acclaimed Library and Information Science blog for libraries librarians catalogers
#Schattenbibliotheken#LibGen#OpenAccess
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