Thank you. My experience is that this is an open community that welcomes debate so I wouldn't be surprised if they engage
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Thank you. My experience is that this is an open community that welcomes debate so I wouldn't be surprised if they engage
Royal Holloway is currently recruiting a Deputy Director (Library):
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
First sightings in Oxford as well. What I assumed from a distance was a red admiral but might have been a tortoiseshell and a very yellow cabbage white
I was struck by this sentence in the judgement:
"the Supreme Court has long held that copyright law is intended to benefit the public, not authors."
A lot of rights discourse I see on both sides of the Pond appears to focus on the rights of creators, not the public
For non-experts (like me), this post nicely explains why the US courts decided that machines can't be copyrightable authors:
www.authorsalliance.org/2025/03/19/t...
Hi Both. You may want to direct comments and critiques to COAR - I don't know if they will see them if you just respond to my posting.
A statement from @coar-repositories.bsky.social on Navigating the Uneasy Interdependence of AI and Open Science. The bot issue is particulalry concerning
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
Screenshot of Zoom discussion with Catherine Steeves, Judy Ruttenberg, and William Nixon on screen.
Thanks to Catherine Steeves and Judy Ruttenberg for speaking to #RLUKDSF about the @arl.org @cni-org.bsky.social Futurescape Libraries #AI Toolkit, workshopped with research library leaders.
📺 You can watch the recording of this talk at bit.ly/DSFonD
We're looking for a pro-active HE/research librarian, keen for responsibility, who likes being involved with a range of different tasks and is able to see the library service as an interconnected whole.
If this sounds like you - why not apply? (must be able to work in London for some of the week).
Come and work with us in University Library & Collections at @durham.ac.uk in this new & exciting role. You will play a leadership role in our modern, heritage & cultural collections.
Durham University Library is recruiting a new Deputy Director, Collections:
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
I very much approve of conferences 40 minutes’ stroll from home!
Speaker at a lectern in the front of a lecture theatre
Ruth Mallalieu from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opening the in-person section of this year’s #OxFOS26 conference.
The question of how to sustain open infrastructure is a perennial one. @doaj.bsky.social has launched a premium metadata service. Those organisations that make large-scale commercial use of DOAJ’s metadata services will now directly contribute to DOAJ's sustainability
Everyone in the DRP knows how wonderful and incredible @lyndamk.bsky.social is. We are thrilled for her and honored that she is representing #DataRescue at this international level. Congrats Lynda!!
We're very pleased to publish what we hope will be a useful resource helping those that are new to thoughts about building inclusive collections
I’m not sure if only Lancaster people are eligible to apply or it is wider.
But is is lovely to see the wonderful and much-missed Elaine Sykes honoured in this way
We are hugely looking forward to our (virtual) conference later in the month. We have an excellent programme and have tried to keep fees low to encourage wider participation.
I missed this previously, but recruitment for a new Chief Executive for the British Library started earlier in the year:
ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...
ChatGPT training data is 93% English language says Nikesh Gosalia. Is AI democratising access to scholarly publishing or encoding colonialism at scale? The evidence suggests we are heading down a dangerous path #R2RConf
Simon Bains from Aberdeen University Library speaking at a conference podium
Great lightening talk from @simonjbains.bsky.social on the engagement of Aberdeen University Library with local asylum communities #R2RConf
The ‘what should we do to fix peer review’ debate doesn’t appear to have moved on much in 20 years #R2RConf
Speakers on a dais in a grand hall with a blue painted ceiling and red columns
In the very grand surroundings of the BMA for #R2RConf
The former Chair of @rluk.ac.uk, and Leeds Uni Library Director Emerita, Stella Butler has written a fascinating book on the first women to become Fellows of the Royal Society thehistorypress.co.uk/article/ask-...
Very well-deserved. Grape Minds is our local wine shop and the friendliness and knowledge of everybody who works there is exemplary. Don’t think I’ve had a duff recommendation
💠 We're pleased to announce the final #RLUK26 keynote speaker
Professor Dame Sally Mapstone is Principal & Vice-Chancellor @uniofstandrews.bsky.social since 2016 & formerly was President of @universities-uk.bsky.social during 2023-25.
#RLUK26 is a virtual event on 25-27 March
ℹ️ 🎟 bit.ly/RLUKconf
We have a brilliant roster of keynotes lined up for this year's (virtual) RLUK Conference. Registration is open to all - do join us if you can
New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices.
@morphss.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social
Library support enables Royal Society open access shift.
Eight subscription journals go fully OA during 2026 through subscribe to open model.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
Looking out to sea over the masts of sail boats in Brighton Marina under bright blue skies
In Brighton for the weekend. Haven’t seen this much blue sky for what feels like an age…
