Dominic Broadhurst

Head of Content and Discovery at @TheLibraryUoS

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@hughtweet Never trust a hippy

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Looking to work with academic colleagues, academic libraries & industry partners on this

https://t.co/mTGlAc10KO

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@JohnHodgsonUoM @WoodSt_Mission All the best for the future John

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@samoore_ This line made my eyes water

".....cut into the $19 billion academic publishing industry’s profit margins"

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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

https://t.co/LS2zYqyQFG

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@ResFortnight https://t.co/0gPuUeg9Cr

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Ex Libris old boss now heads up Clarivate, who apparently now are "a leading global provider of transformative intelligence"

https://t.co/CwcPaF4iu8

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

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Interesting opinion piece in The Guardian

"The commercial stranglehold on academic publishing is doing considerable damage to our intellectual and scientific culture"

https://t.co/UNKSIwxUe4…

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"...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."

https://t.co/KzLVAib6xB

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Google sued by top textbook publishers over ads for pirated e-books

"As a result, the textbook market is upside down" 🧐

https://t.co/gZjz8h2r2U

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@TashadenDekker Love LadyParts and new series is ace

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@WinGreenParty @TheGreenParty Best of luck Lorraine

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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"

https://t.co/PDVsCAyWOB

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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

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

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

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

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

https://t.co/bn3NdaCBp9