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petersuber

George Orwell's original publisher, #VictorGollancz, is selling its huge #Orwell Archive to private collectors.
theguardian.com/books/article/

Orwell's son Richard: "Once Gollancz material is acquired by private collectors, it could disappear into the ether for ever."

Gollancz is now owned by #Hachette, one of the publishers suing the @internetarchive (#InternetArchive).

#CulturalHeritage #Preservation

George Orwell's original publisher, #VictorGollancz, is selling its huge #Orwell Archive to private collectors.
theguardian.com/books/article/

Orwell's son Richard: "Once Gollancz material is acquired by private collectors, it could disappear into the ether for ever."

17 August at 17:19 | Open on fediscience.org
Mushi

@petersuber @internetarchive who wants to crowdsource a campaign to bring this to the commons?

17 August at 17:25 | Open on col.social
RevPudDudley

@petersuber @internetarchive For real fans --
however this goes, I will say that
"The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell"
was one of the truly great reading experiences
Seems to be on Internet Archive, certainly in good libraries
#Books #bookstodon

17 August at 18:57 | Open on mas.to
petersuber
Kotaro

@petersuber@fediscience.org It was worthwhile for us to be vigilant about Mozilla's moves.

15 June at 13:28 | Open on kotaro.me
petersuber

More reasons to love #Libraries and #Librarians.

I posted this to Twitter a few years ago. Re-upping it light of recent #BookBans, #Censorship, and threats to #Libraries.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/

Sign in a library showing the Dewey Decimal numbers for "everything you want to know, but don't really want to ask", such as abortion, abuse, alcohol, anxiety, and so on.
12 March at 20:09 | Open on fediscience.org
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MylesRyden

@petersuber

One of many reasons public libraries are awesome. Thank you Ben Franklin and everyone since!

13 March at 12:34 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
petersuber

Update. I'd love to give credit to the #library + #librarians who created this chart. But I don't know who they are. Can you help?

13 March at 13:03 | Open on fediscience.org
Jake Rayson

@petersuber
This is beautiful, thank you ❤️
@alice

14 March at 15:13 | Open on mas.to
petersuber

@OpenAlex (#OpenAlex) has a friendly new user interface.
openalex.org/

It's beautifully simple & should bring this powerful tool to more users.

Next time you have a research question, try it before #GoogleScholar or your other stand-bys. Or try both & compare.

* searches titles, abstracts, full-text
* takes keywords, #DOIs
* 7 sort orders
* 39 built-in filters, inc for OA works
* indexes 250m+ works, 250k+ sources
* Data #CC0
* Open #API
* #OpenSource

#Search

@OpenAlex (#OpenAlex) has a friendly new user interface.
openalex.org/

It's beautifully simple & should bring this powerful tool to more users.

Next time you have a research question, try it before #GoogleScholar or your other stand-bys. Or try both & compare.

* searches titles, abstracts, full-text
* takes keywords, #DOIs
* 7 sort orders
* 39 built-in filters, inc for OA works
* indexes 250m+ works, 250k+ sources
* Data #CC0
* Open #API
* #OpenSource

13 January at 15:19 | Open on fediscience.org
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ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

@petersuber @OpenAlex Ooh, I'm definitely switching to this. Always hated that Google Scholar felt like a monopoly :/

13 January at 16:50 | Open on mastodon.online
Mike Taylor 🦕

@petersuber @OpenAlex I want this to succeed, but from my brief poking around it's nowhere near up to Google Scholar's standard. I search for "xenoposeidon" to find myself, clicked through to my author page at openalex.org/authors/a50697199 and found I wrote 326 works (closer to 30), and have 10 affiliations (I have three). Obviously has me conflated with other Mike Taylors.

13 January at 17:03 | Open on sauropods.win
Alex Weber

@petersuber @OpenAlex can you create a profile like Google Scholad? I searched myself and it did a good job, but some papers werent mine

13 January at 21:17 | Open on qoto.org
petersuber

#ORCID is shifting from #RINGGOLD to #ROR as the ID for a scholar's institutional affiliation.
info.orcid.org/orcid-support-f

PS: I support this move. It will help establish ROR as the #standard for institutional affiliation. RINGGOLD IDs are #proprietary and ROR IDs are in the #PublicDomain under #CC0.

#Metadata #PIDs #Universities

23 Jun 2023 at 18:08 | Open on fediscience.org
petersuber

Some of the #publishers fighting #BookBans and celebrating #PrideMonth are also suing the @internetarchive. "If anything, Pride Month should be the moment in which publishers join librarians in their efforts to make as much knowledge as available as possible to as many people as possible. #OpenAccess is thus an essential tool in the fight for #LGBTQIA+ rights and minority rights in general."
punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/bo

#PunctumBooks

Some of the #publishers fighting #BookBans and celebrating #PrideMonth are also suing the @internetarchive. "If anything, Pride Month should be the moment in which publishers join librarians in their efforts to make as much knowledge as available as possible to as many people as possible. #OpenAccess is thus an essential tool in the fight for #LGBTQIA+ rights and minority rights in general."
punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/bo

5 Jun 2023 at 12:51 | Open on fediscience.org
petersuber

Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #gender bias in academic #publishing.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/

Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon.

Here's a rollup of the Twitter thread.
resee.it/tweet/125298113985535

Watch this space for updates.

#academia
@academicchatter

Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #gender bias in academic #publishing.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/

Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon.

Here's a rollup of the Twitter thread.
resee.it/tweet/125298113985535

24 May 2023 at 18:42 | Open on fediscience.org
petersuber

Update. In political science, "journal articles authored exclusively by female scholars score 27% lower on average [on Altmetric Attention Scores, AAS] than exclusively male-authored outputs. However, men are also more likely to write articles with an AAS of zero. These patterns are shaped by the presence of high-scoring male 'superstars' whose research attracts much online attention."
link.springer.com/article/10.1

#Altmetrics #Gender #PoliticalScience

Update. In political science, "journal articles authored exclusively by female scholars score 27% lower on average [on Altmetric Attention Scores, AAS] than exclusively male-authored outputs. However, men are also more likely to write articles with an AAS of zero. These patterns are shaped by the presence of high-scoring male 'superstars' whose research attracts much online attention."
link.springer.com/article/10.1

24 May 2023 at 18:49 | Open on fediscience.org
petersuber

This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.

"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
researchprofessionalnews.com/r

#Europe #RightsRetention

This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.

"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
researchprofessionalnews.com/r

6 May 2023 at 13:15 | Open on fediscience.org
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