Open Licence Literacy: Given to Know, Give to Grow
This is a version of a presentation I gave about the need for training researchers in open licensing as a form of information literacy. I presented this at...
Continue reading →The Harm of E-book Platform Vendors like Clarivate/ProQuest
Librarians have ceded our control of collections and collection-building in the digital realm to a few commercial vendors. Among other things, this has...
Continue reading →Getting Certainty on Human Versus Synthetic Media
The Authors Guild (USA) launched its Human Authored Certification program (29 January 2025). This certification permits its members to register their...
Continue reading →Journalist skills: Learn command line usage
Bellingcat provides a workshop for people with no experience using the command line. The idea is to gain essential skills that will open up the possibility...
Continue reading →Institutional Change toward Open Scholarship and Open Science
The processes and supports within an institution can, I've noticed, demand a bit of effort to change. When we speak of open scholarship or open science ,...
Continue reading →Artificial Intelligence to Examine Us
The hype over the last few months regarding generative AI has been quite interesting. I've facilitated a variety of discussions (and presented some) with...
Continue reading →Tracking the Challenges Made to Canadian Library Books
Sometimes we see headlines in the news about a book being challenged at a library. People from different perspectives might see the content of the book or...
Continue reading →Could Mastodon Instances Make a Pledge to Their Communities?
I've been thinking about something like an instance Community Pledge becoming commonplace. Mastodon instances tend to post rules, user expectations, a tiny...
Continue reading →Mastodon Social Media Instances of Interest
The Mastodon social networks have attracted a lot more attention recently. I posted on concepts behind Mastodon , ActivityPub , and this federated style of...
Continue reading →Talk about the Broad Value of Open Access
As a librarian, I talk with other faculty and students about their academic work and the life-cycle of the research process. I've always stressed that open...
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