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Discovery drives the Collection, Metadata drives Discovery, #MetadataMatters #SupportOpenAccess Opinions my own. @UoMLibrary, @CilipMDG & @UKLibrariesNAG
Aug 24, 2023 74 tweets 16 min read
Morning - I'm back live-tweeting from the @UKSG
Event on #OpenAccess publishing in the UK and Europe: "Practical Routes to OA Monographs: Collaboration, Innovation and Support" 🧵🔓📚

#UKSGSeminar #OAmonographs23uksg.org/event/PR2OAmon… @UKSG We start with "Bloomsbury Open Collections: A collective-action model for open access monographs" with Ros Pyne (@rospyne) of @BloomsburyAcad
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Aug 22, 2023 60 tweets 12 min read
I will be joining a @UKSG Event running today and Thursday on #OpenAccess publishing in the UK and Europe:
"Practical Routes to OA Monographs: Collaboration, Innovation and Support"

#UKSGSeminar #OAmonographs23uksg.org/event/PR2OAmon… @UKSG We begin with Lucy Barnes (@alittleroad) from @OpenBookPublish and @oabooksnetwork on "A field in flux: change, challenge, and collective progress for OA books"
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Apr 21, 2023 71 tweets 77 min read
"The established supply chain for scholarly books presents a major challenge for small or new #OA publishers to thrive. Specialised title management systems, for instance, are difficult to access and many systems are not oriented to #openaccess books." #ScalingSmall #OABooks "@COPIMproject has dedicated time and attention to this issue developing @Thoth_metadata, a #metadata management system, that aims to level the playing field between large and small publishers by alleviating some of the difficulties faced by scholar-led presses."
#ScalingSmall
Apr 20, 2023 8 tweets 9 min read
Today's final #ScalingSmall session is "Community Governance in Practice: Governance in #OA Spaces" - Janneke Adema (@Openreflections) describes the research that informed the establishment of a community governance structure for @COPIMproject & @OpenBookCollect @Openreflections @COPIMproject @OpenBookCollect @COPIMproject research reports for exploring models for community governance as part of WP4 copim.ac.uk/workpackage/wp…
with common research principles.
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Apr 20, 2023 8 tweets 6 min read
@jesherer "No one talks about publishing as #OpenAccess causing declined usage or impact for monographs; in fact it is often the opposite!" #ScalingSmall #OABooks @jesherer We need to get better at measuring usage & impact for #OABooks - this is tricky for libraries in particular; we rely on institution-specific usage stats to demonstrate value for money; how do we measure our institutional usage of #OpenAccess content?
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Apr 20, 2023 14 tweets 15 min read
@ScholTom explains WP3 #OpeningtheFuture
Pilot case to show that publishers can transition their business to new #OpenAccess models that do not rely on BPCs but on community funding.
Developing online open toolkits for starting & running open access presses #ScalingSmall #OABooks Image @CEUPress and @LivUniPress made #OpeningtheFuture a reality! And libraries of all sizes have joined the membership scheme, enabling library funds to go further: achieving the dual objectives of increasing collections and supporting #OpenAccess.
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Apr 20, 2023 5 tweets 6 min read
If institutions & funders are serious about #OpenScience & #OpenResearch then they have to reassess reward & recognition systems for academics so that there is a culture change away from traditional prestige publishing
#ScalingSmall #OABooks It's about redirecting labour & funds to #open rather than propping up the status quo - part of this is for academic institutions to work with publishers to develop sustainable & equitable #openaccess options (not just those funded by TAs, APCs & BPCs)...
#ScalingSmall #OABooks
Feb 16, 2023 22 tweets 21 min read
Ready for: "Perspectives on #Metadata Quality and Completeness" with @mragucci Jessica Clark & @AnaHeredia2017
sched.co/1D7qH #NisoPlus2023 The Publisher perspective on #MetadataImpact - @mragucci - #Metadata is like #TheForce in #StarWars - it is often invisible but powers so much in research and information exchange #NISOPlus2023 ImageImage
Feb 14, 2023 19 tweets 23 min read
I'm now joining the #NISOPlus23 session: "Making the business case for investing in metadata" with Josh Brown, Heather Kotula, Michelle Urberg, & Julia McDonell
#Metadata #MetadataMatters #NISOPlus sched.co/1D7pA The opportunity costs of poor metadata re-use - Josh Brown from @MoreBrains_Coop
PIDs are keystone metadata! - Powering Reuse, Automation, Aggregation & Analysis
#metadata #NISOPlus23
Feb 2, 2023 42 tweets 41 min read
Joining @SCURLScottish and @cigscot for their EDI Network Conference featuring @infogamerist and #EthicalMetadata and a Keynote from DeLa Dos, Senior Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion @ARLnews
#SCURLEDI Ellie Muniandy, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer, @natlibscot speaks eloquently about #EDI Workforce Development and how implementing EDI requires a deep and meaningful change in perspective and working culture #SCURLEDI