Em Johnson (she/her)
Academic librarian at Swinburne University #researchpublishing #openaccess #scholarlycommunications
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- Thank you Eleanor Colla for finding this - Rick Anderson writes 'Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now?' #academiclibraries #priorities #open #scholarlycommunications | doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
- Rick offers predictions: 'the broader systemic conflict between competing business models will not be resolved by libraries, authors or publishers, but rather by institutions and funders', and 'end result will be a system characterized by coexisting models of pay‑access and open‑access publishing.'
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Latest OASPA data shows dramatic growth in OA articles from past decades is plateauing - OASPA oaspa.org/news/latest-oaspa-d…
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Building a Sustainable Commons: Why community governance is the bedrock of Open Scholarly Infrastructure - OpenAIRE Blog openaire.eu/community/blogs/sus…
- theconversation.com/the-5-stages... #academicpublishing #enshittification @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social and Martina Linnenluecke, Jan 6 2026
- *tiptoing quietly back into my work socials* shhh
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals. Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet? 📚 www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
- I am taking 5 months of uninterrupted long service leave at full pay Aug-Dec this year! Why have I got such an appalling accrual, I hear you ask? Well indeed, and therein lies the irony of librarian burnout. #VocationalAwe #IdentityAsProfession #WorkLifeBalance #ReframeAndReset
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)The N8 Research Partnership has today released a landmark statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarly research is published
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)With open access conferences happening on the other side of the globe, we thought we'd celebrate OA in the lands down under with a link to the OA Toolkit for Aotearoa NZ Researchers. While only a basic tool, it's completely customisable for individual institutions oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)The world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality Pls share our new paper & Call to Action
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around? The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more. We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)I had the pleasure of giving a keynote for the ANZREG conference earlier this week titled 'Beyond provocation: Reimagining systems through care, critique, and community.' 🔗 Talk and slides: www.emiliabell.com/2025/06/13/b...
- I'm engaging less with my work/professional social media these days. It's a bit overwhelming out there, and I'm pulling in my antennae while I seek an acceptable balance for work/life
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)As we say on the internet, "some personal news." After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor. In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career. Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Journal Article: “Defining quality in peer review reports: a scoping review” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)This support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/ar... ? Summarization feature Publishers are making libraries sign terms that say you can't upload their content into public ai clouds so yes technically this would be violation if user puts in full text and it gets Summarized
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)A Librarian’s Guide to AI in Academic Search Tools katinamagazine.org/content/arti... - I was asked to write this rather than bloat out a review article I was doing for Katina. I struggled a lot with this, trying to keep it concise, vs technically accurate while handicaped by my limited knowledge
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)CREEPY: Academia.edu has generated an AI podcast for my paper: Kingsley, D.A. and Kennan, M.A. (2015) “Open access: the whipping boy for problems in scholarly publication”, aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/i... It is *kinda* OK, but the asides are slightly off putting (an emphasise the wrong points)
- I would love to see this kind of graph for the academic publishing sector
- 200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. Share, boost, join and show them love. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building. Join the stream and show your support!
- Tune into the 💯 hour Weather & Climate Livestream, brought to you by US meteorologists and climate scientists whose research is at risk due to proposed budget cuts. Learn about the federally funded science that makes weather forecasts and climate predictions possible! www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)WOW - how do these people lie straight in bed at night? IEEE is charging a 'Repository License Fee' (or should that be 'FEEE'?) "The RLF price is $1,275 for periodical articles and $400 for conference articles and is applicable only to AMs and not to VORs." bibliotheek.ehb.be:2580/repository-l...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)This needs repeating indefinitely
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Several years after the launch of C4DISC, in a challenging political climate, we are encouraged to see reaffirmations of commitment to our Joint Statement of Principles by some of our members. We invite all members and partners to share their statements of commitment: c4disc.org/reaffirmatio...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Worth a share: a handout on neurodiversity-affirming principles and practices for #libraries, openresearch.okstate.edu/entities/pub... #Neurodivergent #Neurodiverse #Librarian #Library
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)I read this autoethnographic article about ADHD and librarianship (which resonates enormously, btw), but it got me thinking - how do you anonymise an article like this for blind peer-review? I mean, your identity and personal experiences are sort of the point and librarianship is a small world... 📚
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)‘Research managers are needed to address societal challenges’. Inorms 2025: Tackling climate change and digitisation requires change in research culture, #INORMS2025 event hears. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)📚 Like @missemilielib.bsky.social, I can miss law librarianship. The knowledge that you've provided an excellent service and contributed substantially to a brief or argument is very satisfying. And of course, the last-minute-just-before-court requests can result in quite the adrenalin spike. 😆
- dear lord, what is happening to my brain I have had to switch ON Outlook's email spelling and grammar check, that's how bad my brain is right now shocking I know
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)📣Share your feedback on ARDC Community Data Lab draft project plans! The HASS & Indigenous research community is invited to share their feedback and help shape the ARDC Community Data Lab 🔗 bit.ly/cdl-plans w/ @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #HASS #research #data #GLAM
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- Boosting this, thankyou to my library networks for bringing to my attention palestinianfilmfestival.com.au/session/a-fi... Documents the events and actions since the 1982 erasure of Palestinian material culture
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
- #MayDay www.nma.gov.au/defining-mom... My most formative baby librarian years were when I worked under Ruth Bird at UniMelb's Law Library (when it was still in the old Law Quadrangle). I can't remember if there is a plaque honouring the 888 worker's rights victory on campus, but there should be
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)American University #librarians take up the mantle with government data rescue project www.theeagleonline.com/article/2025... #libraries @datarescueproject.org
- I wish I could summon the spoons, an AuADHD diagnosis, all the apparatus including medication to support me, then apply to do a PhD - topic: scholarly communications+research assessment reform
- At this point, at age +55 and a bit broken by aforementioned undiagnosed issues and a decade of professional isolation working as a librarian in this space... I fear it is well beyond me
- So instead I am obsessively reading everybody else's scholarship in this area #VicariousScholarship
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)CWTS | Leiden University is hiring a PhD candidate to research paper mills and manipulation in publishing, supervised by RoRI researchers. Apply here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Delight in Steel’s consummate awe at student work and the power of open pedagogy in the new series “OER Under the Hood” from Pressbooks & OEGlobal, convened by @cogdog.bsky.social Poignant excerpts from Terry and Amanda (plus a few of my own musings) here: tinyurl.com/mpjba6ku #EduSky #OER #OEP
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Tracking the Use of Open Educational Resources Sounds Simple. It Isn’t. katinamagazine.org/content/arti... very nice
- www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... "But on this front, at least, the Trump Administration is facing well-organized resistance. It comes from a loose coalition of archivists and librarians who are assembling information arks to ride out the chaos."
- " The Data Rescue Project, founded by a data librarian, now includes more than 400 volunteer backups of government repositories, from the C.F.P.B.’s Consumer Complaint Database to the C.D.C.’s National Immunization Survey."
- " When asked who was contributing to these backups, an administer of the tracker had a simple answer: “Nerds who care.”"
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)An incredible lost medieval manuscript with rare stories from the Merlin and King Arthur legend discovered and now digitised. (Image below from Cambridge University Library) www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merl...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)We just learned that Washington State Library’s $3.9M annual award from the Feds has been cancelled. That’s rural libraries, rural librarians and internet access, databases for research and ebooks through Libby. DOGE needs to end.
- Data mining leads directly to enshittification, no matter what direction you're looking from
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- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)💡 The #LibraryPublishingCoalition (LPC) has been investigating scholarly publishing platform #accessibility and PKP's #OpenJournalSystems as well as #OpenMonographPress were selected as of particular interest! Learn more about the inclusion criteria and more: librarypublishing.org/platform-acc...
- today started at approximately 3:30AM, then 3:57AM, then 4:28AM, then 5:15AM, then 8:10AM, then 9:00AM I am thankful to be WFH today and - given that my current earworm is "Mac The Knife" sung to the tune of "Jake The Peg (Deedle Deedle Deedle Dum)", am expecting a full Descent Into Madness
- sudden horrified realization that I just had a chat with someone about matters relevant to my professional role and every 3rd or 4th word was an acronym
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Have your say! The Australian Government Department of Education has opened consultation surveys to help inform future investments and policy in research infrastructure. To provide feedback, visit: srkr.io/6011wH9 Submissions close on 28 March 2025. #NCRISimpact
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)How do you use vocabularies, ontologies and metadata schemas? We want to know! Fill out our anonymous survey now ✍️ ardc.edu.au/article/surv... Survey closes 11 April #informatics #RDV #survey #research #vocabularies
- welp my theory about applying a 3-shot iced coffee directly after lunch to avoid the post-lunch sleepies has definitely worked but I am a wee bit hyper now
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Librarians 📣 Join in this special #LARK webinar event looking at library practice-based research: Connections and Collaborations in Public Libraries: LIS Research with @kayoddone.bsky.social & @drjanegarner.bsky.social lark.alia.org.au/event/webina... @larkollektive.bsky.social #Libraries #Research
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)"I am hopeful that, given the reality of climate change, people will help one another to adapt, restore, and rethink the future," says Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, cofounder of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative.
- CHAT BOTS ARE NOT SENTIENT have we *honestly* got to this now? Do we really, actually have to start reminding people that there is no machine sentience? There is barely anything that can even be termed machine intelligence
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.
- information professionals and scholarly communications support people: is there a resource being compiled somewhere that gives people in our roles advice and direction on how to protect the privacy of researchers who might be impacted by current US Admin policy?
- should we e.g. be offering more secure comms via Signal etc, applying VPN settings overlays with our conversations, general reminders to librarians etc about best practice and what to avoid, sort of thing?
- All librarians everywhere vocationally understand the importance of protecting client privacy but the stakes are considerably higher in the research sector, no matter what country, because research funding and tenure is impacted across borders.
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)The general trend is crazy. Here is Twitter vs Bluesky volumes for the last week. On some days they are equal in volume.
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.
- About to talk to medical affairs colleagues, with the news that Bluesky is carrying more posts about new journal publications than X #bluesky #altmetrics #x #xparrot
- ProQuest's 'Ebook Central Research Assistant' - we've seen this coming for a long time I think
- I invite you to imagine being a metadata-managing/curatorial librarian who is CONSTANTLY doubting if she's using the term 'schema' correctly in a contextually correct way in a sentence I can tell you it's possible to be steeped in this field for a decade and still not really understand
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)How Librarians Can Protect Researchers from Untrustworthy Journals and Book Publishers | @iflaglobal.bsky.social Academic and Research Libraries Section Blog blogs.ifla.org/arl/2025/02/... #ResearchSkills #ResearchSupport #AcademicLibraries #PredatoryPublishing
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Times of crisis and change bring many challenges, and each of us has an opportunity to decide how our priorities, skills, and bandwidth guide us in acting. There are many activities out there, and this starter pack can connect you with them.at://did:plc:ml3lrff3l2oszuv2r6amaw5j/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lhjn7ut46p22
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Call for contributions to RAILS 2025: Library and Information Research: Reflecting on the Past, Shaping the Future railsconference.wordpress.com/call-for-con...
- Reposted by Em Johnson (she/her)Completely condemn the highly disappointing decision by @acs.org to take down and then amend their pages on Diversity, equity, and inclusion - www.acs.org/about/divers... - this is not what #RealTimeChem stands for.
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