(Or rather, the person who would have been the copyright holder had they not relinquished those rights with this text... Hmmm)

Presumably though it would only become an issue legally if the copyright holder tried to claim there was a copyright infringement despite the text?

Happening at a UKHEI right now

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Thanks Kevin that's very kind! As usual I am not sure if I made my points coherently enough but we had a very engaged audience which was great.

This has basically been going on since pre-pandemic. Amazon ate the middle (Borders, BN, etc) but mostly left the indies alone. Anyone who's surprised indie book stores are thriving hasn't been paying attention.

NPR reported on this in 2018.

The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan) I am thinking a lot these days about my own mortality. That’s not because I am obsessed with death or anything of the sort. It’s more that my health problems are accumulating and I do not know how long my body is going to hold out against them. It might be that I can clear all my current...

Blogging is painful but essential for preserving my work beyond my lifetime. I discuss the steps I take, from metadata to digital preservation, and why it's worth it.

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Quite a lot changed at Leicester after Vichai died and his son took over. A strategy that relied on getting lots of decisions right hit the skids when the person taking many of the key decisions wasn't up to it.

The contributions to this issue highlight tensions in current open research discourse, but also reveal the many opportunities for discussions of openness to broaden out and encompass a greater variety of practices and applications across a range of disciplines. [3/n]

This timely and essential collection considers how dominant understandings of open research and open science relate to HSS disciplines and how they are resisted, asking if AHSS disciplines need their own conceptions of openness, or if OR itself needs to “humanise”. [2/n]

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Extremely relatable

“Scaling Small” and Governing Together: Towards a National Diamond Open Access Consortium in Switzerland

Lovely to see @copim.bsky.social mentioned in this report on Switzerland's efforts to establish a national diamond open access consortium as "a paradigmatic example of scaling small": 0277.pubpub.org/pub/v2nne6u6...

#OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure

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I don't. There are certain types of books I can take in via audio and some I need to read on paper. I only used to buy physical books that I already had in an audio format before I realised this :)

Yes we have seen this at @lsepress.bsky.social too

This is helpful from @openbookpublish.bsky.social - we’re also seeing some examples of this with our authors at @uolpress.bsky.social…

Absolutely this. Some smaller programmes have already been dropped by Jisc (e.g. Lever Press) and we'd hate to see small, growing initiatives like ours be dropped from Jisc's LSM. This would cut off UK library participation in one go 🙃

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Open Access Publishing in Practice: Author Experiences and Insights A panel of authors share first-hand insights into how publishing their work openly has shaped its reach, visibility and impact.

How does #openaccess publishing improve a work's reach, visibility and impact, and what's it like to engage first-hand with publishers?

Join @philippagrand.bsky.social and David Luke, at the London Open Science and Scholarship festival next week @ucl.ac.uk

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Book Launch: Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law by Devyani Prabhat

We are launching the latest book in our #OpenAccess 'Reimagining Law and Justice series' with @ials.bsky.social on Tuesday 21st April at 5pm (UK). This brilliant new book by Devyani Prabhat published in March.

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That's right, our FIFTIETH book came out today!

I don't suppose it really was that person emailing, and I find that kind of impersonation quite sinister.

Exactly -- the idea of a book club having 25,000+ members is wildly unbelievable. One thing I did find a bit grim though, when I dug into the examples from our authors: the name of the supposed emailer tallied with the name of a (presumably real) person organising the book club on Meetup.

Bot Camp Twelve-year-old Daniel is obsessed with combat robotics - because duh, who isn't? So when his plucky lifter-bot snags him a spot at Bernard Barker's legendary Bot Camp, Daniel short-circuits with exci...

It looks like this is the book they think you've written: books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

This is amazing; it really embraces sycophancy as a persuasive tool. "I am writing to formally congratulate you" -- how kind -- when really they should be the ones congratulated for having 25,000+ members of their book club! Literally incredible stuff.

And yet some of them are (thankfully) terrible at this -- one of our authors had an email that conflated their book title w/the title of another book we published & produced a potted summary that made v. little sense. But I agree it's definitely easier now to sound familiar w/a book when you aren't!

This is helpful advice, except I'd add: they can easily now add "details" from your book by running it through AI or just asking a model that has been trained on it. It's very easy for them to sound knowledgeable.

Eliza Orme co-founded the Nineteenth Century Building Society, "which by 1885 would have the largest share capital of all the building societies in Britain".

Leslie Howsam's book on Orme, ref'd in this article in which Leslie is quoted, is #OpenAccess!

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