sam moore
Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication @KingsDH・critical information studies・digital commons/governance・open access publishing・co-organiser of @RadicalOA
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Martin Carthy play the theme from The Third Man
This footage of Martin Carthy live from The Greys in Brighton accompanies a full interview at www.thebumnoteclub.com.
sam moore
while we wait for the exit poll, here's martin carthy in a lovely colourful shirt playing the harry lime theme
31h
Predatory journals: no definition, no defence
Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.
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sam moore
I think a much better strategy here would be to identify examples of bad practices by specific actors, rather than a general binary separation between 'predatory' and not. This requires argumentation rather than another consensus-building definition.
3d
Paper Struggles & Public Library and the Property Form
Paper Struggles & Public Library and the Property Form
Exhibition and Seminar
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The exhibition and the seminar will take place at:
Raven Row, 56 Artillery Ln, London
Exhibition opening: Monday, December 9th, 18.30-21.00
Remains open: Tuesday...
Artist’s Book as a Term Is Problematic -
A book is a sequential collection of pages, loose leaf or bound, and it is circulating in multiple reproductions. But today, we are no longer only talking about books anymore—more capacious than book, the term publication is better because it can...
Recounting Algorithms
sam moore
CFP: Recounting Algorithms: A Workshop on Critical Algorithm Studies in the Library, University of Toronto Mississauga Library, May 7-8, 2020
8d
Moving (slowly) toward understanding knowledge as a global commons
(2019). Moving (slowly) toward understanding knowledge as a global commons. Journal of Multicultural Discourses. Ahead of Print.
sam moore
'Moving (slowly) toward understanding knowledge as a global commons' by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
8d
Care-full commoning at the Old Church on the Hill, Bendigo
(2019). Care-full commoning at the Old Church on the Hill, Bendigo. Australian Geographer: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 531-546.
The Plan S open access initiative creates more opportunities than threats for Latin America
Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America's exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced. Renegotiation of subscription agreements and the stipulation that article-processing...
sam moore
This is quite a statement. I would have expected Plan S to at least provide some support for alternative approaches to OA (but maybe that's forthcoming...)
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10d
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down
A new project aims to make LibGen, which hosts 33 terabytes of scientific papers and books, much more stable.
Why you’re never working to contract
During the last #USSstrike, on non-picketing days, I practiced working to contract. Working to contract is part of the broader strategy known as ASOS – action short of a strike – and it means fulfi…
Educational Publishers Take Legal Action Against Dozens of eBook Sites that use Google Ads to Sell Pirated Content
The Educational Publishers Enforcement Group (EPEG) members, consisting of Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, McGraw-Hill and Pearson, have filed a lawsuit in federal court against dozens of pirate eBook sites that sell illegal, unlicensed...
sam moore
I wonder if the members of the wonderfully ominous 'Educational Publishers Enforcement Group' stop and think whether they're the actual bad guys
16d
Bill Withers - 1973 BBC Concert Complete
Both audio and video are as broadcast by the BBC. Setlist: 00:00:00:00 Ain`t No Sunshine 00:03:18:11 Lonely Town, Lonely Street 00:09:14:16 Grandma`s Hands 0...
Donate to the fighting fund
UCU's fighting fund supports members involved in disputes
sam moore
Solidarity with those striking tomorrow (my university didn't make the threshold). Donate to the strike fund if you can
20d
Open access: Could defeat be snatched from the jaws of victory?
When news broke early in 2019 that the University of California had walked away from licensing negotiations with the world’s largest schol...
LIBER Quarterly
Article: Roles and jobs in the open research scholarly communications environment: analysing job descriptions to predict future trends
Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68 (2007) — Monoskop Log
Digital library of arts and humanities