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MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations | MIT News

Institute ends negotiations for a new journals contract in the absence of a proposal aligning with the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.

libraries · open-access

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 17:47

https://news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611

Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance

SRSLY Wrong is a “research-based comedy podcast” run by a pair of Canadian fellas with a background in radical politics, occupy, and the Pirate Party; in a three part series, hosts Aaro…

libraries

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 08:47

https://boingboing.net/2019/11/24/usufruct-complementarity-irred.html

librarian.net: Social Justice is a Library Issue; Libraries are a Social Justice Issue

de-week · freedom-of-speech · libraries · politics

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 22:25

http://www.librarian.net/talks/alicesmith/alicesmith.html

librarian.net: Social Justice is a Library Issue; Libraries are a Social Justice Issue

freedom-of-speech · libraries

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 22:25

http://www.librarian.net/talks/alicesmith/alicesmith.html

No Need to Ask | Information Technology and Libraries

blockchain · libraries

Sat, 13 Jul 2019 at 10:49

https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/10822

Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online | WIRED

Archive of Our Own, the fanfiction database recently nominated for a Hugo, has perfected a system of tagging that the rest of the web could emulate.

information-architecture · libraries · tagging-advice

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 10:30

https://www.wired.com/story/archive-of-our-own-fans-better-than-tech-organizing-information/

New York Public Library's Top 10 Best Kept Online Secrets | The New York Public Library

NYPL provides access to over 500 electronic resources and we want to share some of our best kept secrets.

libraries

Fri, 31 May 2019 at 16:10

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/04/10/new-york-public-librarys-top-10-best-kept-online-secrets

Blame authors' fortunes on monopolism, not university professors, booksellers and librarians

libraries

Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 02:51

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/07/nonrepresentative-surveys.html

digitization: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should – tara robertson

I learned this week that Reveal Digital has digitized On Our Backs (OOB), a lesbian porn magazine that ran from 1984-2004. This is a part of the Independent Voices collection that “chronicles…

de-week · libraries · privacy

Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 21:55

https://tararobertson.ca/2016/oob/