Katie Hughes
Open Access Librarian living in the UK. Working in Open Access and academic publishing. May qualify as a yarn hoarder. Thoughts are my own. she/her
- Reposted by Katie Hughes"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals." Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
- I stopped buying off Amazon a long time ago and found I can live quite happily without them.
- Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
- It is nice to see a bit of good news out there (sometimes you have to dig for it).
- Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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- We all know that publishing #OpenAccess increases citations and views, but there is also evidence that OA content has helped to shorten PhD studies from 6 years to 4 years in France. - Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri #OASPA2025
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- Poster presentation done. Only 5 mins but almost more daunting then a full session. Introducing EMBL's RRS to #OASPA2025
- Good thread 👇 on Hannah Hope's talk at #OASPA2025
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- After Wellcome changed their #openaccess policy in 2021, they saw that publishers modify their workflows to detect WT funded papers and closed certain routes to publication. They also gave exceptions to "prestigious" authors while ECRs were not given the same opportunities 🤯 #OASPA2025
- Question about why don't we just have article level metrics? With the introduction of social media, this would be easily gameable. Single metrics are a fallacy we need a cloud of different metrics to assess. - Bernd Pulverer
- What publishers can do to help change research assessment; Focus on contribution instead of authorship, acknowledge that the paper doesn't show the whole research process, focus on process not results - Yensi Flores Bueso, University College Cork & Global Young Academy #OASPA2025
- Reposted by Katie HughesStrongly agree: We need to make OA “undeniable,” to the point where it sells itself. (Adapted from Stefan Tochev, MDPI) #OASPA2025
- To sum up some of the feelings in the panel of OA APC based publishers: all are struggling to get support from funders and libraries to push through barriers, feels like you are being penalised for getting their first. - Catriona MacCallum #OASPA2025
- There seems to be a general agreement that publishers need to be better at describing what they do and what their services are to provide evidence for their pricing. But they also need to talk to customers to ensure these are the services they actually want. #OASPA2025
- And we have wifi... #OASPA2025
- Always love a good word cloud. #OSFair25
- "We will never compete with the big corporations but we ask what will happen if we weren't there." Suzanne Dumouchel, OPERAS #OSFair25
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- As someone who studied history, I love when a presentation explains the historical context. I used to do that in my intro to OA explaining the history of publishing. I think some people thought I was crazy, but I enjoyed it 😊 #OSFair25
- There was a comment that it is a myth that everyone wants to publish in Nature and Science. It's so 5 years ago. I would love to believe that is true but researchers I work with overwhelmingly publish with the big publishers. Haven't quite convinced them to change...yet. #OSFair2025
- SCOAP3 is a similar model as Open Research Europe but in a niche area. ORE will be able to create an ecosystem, available to everyone, funded by a community of the willing - Alex Kohls, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) #OSFair2025
- Part of my intro to schol comms course at UBC we had to set up a journal on OJS to better understand what kind of things scholars had to consider like peer review, copyright, metadata when setting up a journal. It was a very useful assignment that has stuck with me. #OSFair2025
- If it wasn't for open science the world wouldn't have the world wide web. 🤯 #OSFair2025
- Also shout out for the allergen friendly food! Best gluten-free bread at a conference I've ever had #OSFair2025
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- Are policymakers loosing touch with those that have to adhere to the policies? Hmm... will need to reflect on this question as I am pushing through a new open science policy at my institution. #OSFair2025
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- Minister of Science: open everything Minister of Defence: keep it closed - Dina Petranovic Reality is that open can be more secure as closed can be more easily manipulated. - Felix Reda #OSFair2025
- Equitable access to knowledge is not a privilege but necessary for progress - everyone should have the opportunity - Yusuf Baran, Izmir Institute of Technology #OSFair2025
- Reposted by Katie HughesIn #OSFair2025 Felix Reda from GitHub stressing the importance of #opensource software as a key part of #openscience, and the cross policy-infrastructure dialogue that must take place. @eosc-everse.bsky.social
- We need to pay attention to infrastructure maintenance, we need to focus on the infrastructure that makes open access possible - Felix Reda, Github Makes me think of @europepmc.org
- We need to pay attention to infrastructure maintenance, we need to focus on the infrastructure that makes open access possible - Felix Reda, Github Makes me think of @europepmc.org
- Really interesting that a study done during the Human Genome Project compared the impact between publicly funded shared data vs private data. Unsurprisingly, the impact of the shared data far outweighed that of the closed data. Always good to be able to present the evidence. #OSFair25
- Let the fun begin #OpenScienceFair25
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- I did a thing... What counts in science? www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...
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- Can AI train on my openly licensed research? Do I retain copyright if I choose a CC BY license? Why can’t I reuse a figure from my own paper? Get the answers in a webinar with Creative Commons, #EuropePMC & EMBL 🗓️ 9 Jul ⏰ 15:00 UTC 🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪
- I am *trying* to learn Python (emphasis on the word trying) and I was recently asked what programming language would I recommend to a library student. I would be interested to know what other people think? Also, if you have any advice on training material for python - please let me know!
- I am preparing a big project for today and I am just stuck on the first step.
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- Who is going to step in posting for @alicecann.bsky.social as she presents at #DARTS9? Looking forward to hearing about Becoming a researcher librarian!
- True even when speaking to people. I am constantly reminding myself to define the jargon (librarians love their jargon).
- First #DARTS9 talk done - lots to think about. I love attending a conference where I feel motivated - so far so good.
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- Reposted by Katie HughesGood piece from @richove.bsky.social on the threat of the US govt to libraries, archives and thus knowledge on.ft.com/3FbaZ7h
- Another reason why I don't shop on Amazon.
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- As an #openaccess advocate... yay? But it does make my head spin.
- “The administration is complaining about the censorship while censoring academics and what we research,” she lamented.
- Reposted by Katie HughesSomeone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
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- Book banning is bad full stop. The title is a little misleading though - it might just be a UK problem as well. "However, the level of influence to date is far from clear, particularly because the nature of censorship requests in the UK seems to differ from those brought forward in the US."
- Public libraries need to be protected.
- Reposted by Katie HughesThose trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
- I hope Cory Booker gets a lie in this morning because that was epic.
