Kudos to the #MIT Grad Student Council for adopting "a resolution expressing support for campus #libraries to exit #bigdeal journal packages and calling for changes to #promotion and #tenure processes to move away from journal-based #metrics."
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Graduate Student Voices Support for Scholarly Communication Reform The MIT Graduate Student Council recently passed a resolution expressing support for campus libraries to exit big deal journal p...
JOB (Aust) - Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of Southern Queensland. These jobs are rare in Australia shorturl.at/COOqx - good luck folks!
CALL OUT - a technical question. Anyone out there who is using Article Galaxy Scholar integrated with LibKey Nomad? We are having issues where two different DOIs for the same article (eg: an 'international' one & a 'local' one) are being interpreted as two articles. Is this your set up get in touch
That went fast. Closing #FORCE2026 remarks now from conference host and co-Chair Bella Ratmelia from SMU. Seeing myself from the organising committee, Bella and the local team did an incredible job. It really felt a like lot of the original "Beyond the PDF" spirit and energy finally made it to Asia
We need to be careful of metrics that distort behavior. We need to consider how the assessed feel. We need to consider if our measures of excellence are broad and pural enough, and yet not be easily gamed or watered down to almost nothing.. It's a hard even wicked problem (8)