Dominic Broadhurst

@hughtweet Never trust a hippy

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" J. Lydon. @dombroadhurst

Looking to work with academic colleagues, academic libraries & industry partners on this linkedin.com/pulse/our-posi…

@JohnHodgsonUoM @WoodSt_Mission All the best for the future John

This fascinating blog post explains how the statuettes were made: rylandscollections.com/2024/08/31/a-3…. Just relieved they didn't make one of me! Oh, and we also raised over £800 for @WoodSt_Mission. You are an incredible team. I wish you every success for the future. Farewell for now. (3/3)

Just completed my last day of employment @TheJohnRylands @UoMLibrary, after 35 years, and signing off from this account soon. I can't believe how incredibly lucky I've been working with astonishing collections, in a stunning building, but above with amazing colleagues. (1/3)

@samoore_ This line made my eyes water ".....cut into the $19 billion academic publishing industry’s profit margins"

With the big publishers such as @tandfnewsroom with their Pledge to Open & @OxUniPress with their Commit to Open schemes now developing library funding models for #OpenAccess Monographs, for me there are still two big elephants in the room linkedin.com/posts/dominic-…

@ResFortnight linkedin.com/posts/dominic-…

Universities back publisher’s open access books funding plan. Publisher Taylor & Francis has said it will make 26 of its books on “critical topics” #openaccess, backed by funding from 24 universities. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-ope…

Ex Libris old boss now heads up Clarivate, who apparently now are "a leading global provider of transformative intelligence" prnewswire.com/in/news-releas…

@simonjbains This thread pretty much nails it Simon. Universities & HE have been shooting themselves in the foot for years now

I've seen this piece promoted several times this week, and it's always great to see the academic voice speaking up strongly about the costs and wrong-headedness involved in academic publishing [1/12] theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Interesting opinion piece in The Guardian "The commercial stranglehold on academic publishing is doing considerable damage to our intellectual and scientific culture" amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.thegua…

"...the takedowns dealt "a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others," who may not have access to a local library or feel "safe accessing the information they need in public." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Google sued by top textbook publishers over ads for pirated e-books "As a result, the textbook market is upside down" 🧐 reuters.com/legal/litigati…

@TashadenDekker Love LadyParts and new series is ace

I had a great weekend of female-led tv shows between Geek Girl and We are LadyParts WHAT A TREAT.

@WinGreenParty @TheGreenParty Best of luck Lorraine

We are pleased to announce Lorraine Estelle is @TheGreenParty candidate for Winchester in the General Election on 4 July 🗳️#VoteGreen #GE2024 winchester.greenparty.org.uk/2024/05/29/win…

And here's another one "We take this step because we believe that scholarly journals—including our own—serve important purposes, and that these purposes are not well-served by commercial publishing" dailynous.com/2024/05/22/edi…

Academic Journals Mass Editorial Resignations So far in 2024, more to come I'll wager ▶️Theory and Society, Springer Nature ▶️Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley ▶️BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Springer Nature ▶️Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley, ▶️Syntax, Wiley

@LizzieGadd Currently the focus of much debate in UK HE libraries given the TA is up for renewal...........

ACS now charging a $2500 "article development charge" for zero embargo green open access.

@librarianth Nothing will stick mate. And looking forward to the Twitter implosion when this happens🤣

"We have 115 charges. Let's see if we can get to a record-breaking 130 by the start of next season. Raise the roof!"

@librarianth And hopefully we're going to win 4 on the bounce 😆

@dombroadhurst Exactly, it's a foolproof system

Under a 4 team playoff system, a team could STILL win the league with only 2 victories over other top 6 sides Stupid idea can't even solve the fake problem it presents 🤦‍♂️

It was great to see our Trailblazers OA Monograph initiative featured in @UKSG eNews today. There is much more to come on this, too uksg.org/newsletter/uks…