Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@social.cleverlibre.org

Still two weeks before sifting of applications for the #job of Director of Special Collections at UChicago Library: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/thelibrary/employment/librarian-opportunities/dir_of_spec_collect/ We are starting an ambitious program of renewal - come be part of it. Non-US applicants: I am happy to share my experience of relocating if helpful.

A rare photo of Schrödinger's Cat...

Read and weep (again). RELX is everywhere, even when only half of this is true.

‘We need to enact data privacy laws that require data companies to be more transparent about how they are collecting and using our data, and more accountable for it.’ https://www.wired.com/story/big-information-relx-privacy-surveillance-data/

Though #OpenAccess indicators within a given publishing platform are relatively consistent, significant inconsistency across platforms likely creates user confusion. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/14/indicators-of-open-access-in-the-user-interface/ via @scholarlykitchn

If anyone is trying to figure out how to find their Twitter connections on #mastodon I just used this and it seems to have worked quite well: https://fedifinder.glitch.me #TwitterMigration #MastodonSocial Thanks for the tip @cameronneylon

OK, this is significant, I think. Humanities Commons now has a Mastodon instance, at https://hcommons.social/about

There are lots of groups of scholars creating their own instances. Could it be one of the first steps towards public/non-profit institutions taking back control of another part of the scholarly communications chain? I hope so.

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VACANCY: Community Manager, DOAJ – freelance https://blog.doaj.org/2022/11/02/vacancy-community-manager-doaj-freelance/