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#openaccess article downloads from #DSpace @ MIT for January: libraries.mit.edu/news/open-ac... Featured country: Switzerland!

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The OJC model is specifically designed to protect bibliodiversity by supporting journals that are free to read and free to publish #DiamondOA

#openaccess article downloads from #DSpace @ MIT for November: libraries.mit.edu/news/open-ac... Featured country: India!

#openaccess downloads from #DSpace @mit.edu for October: libraries.mit.edu/news/open-ac... Featured country: France!

MIT Libraries response to NIH RFI on publishing costs: libraries.mit.edu/news/mit-lib...

Join MIT Libraries for a conversation with Lee McIntyre, author of On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy, as part of our MIT Reads series: October 8, 5-6:30 calendar.mit.edu/event/on-dis... #disinformation #democracy @mitpress.bsky.social

MIT Professor Emeritus & Nobel Prize winner Rainer Weiss dies | Scholarly Communications - MIT Libraries MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics with two colleagues for their “decisive contributions to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) ...

MIT professor & @nobelprize.bsky.social winner #rainerweiss died this week. His 1972 paper describing what would become #LIGO is in #DSpace @MIT. Check out this & more: libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/20...

#openaccess article downloads from #DSpace @MIT for July: We hit a new milestone of more than 30 million downloads! libraries.mit.edu/news/open-ac...

MIT Prize for Open Data | Open Data @ MIT To highlight the value of open data at MIT, and to encourage the next generation of researchers, the MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries present the MIT Prize for Open Data. The Prize Each win...

Hey MIT folks, nominate yourself or colleagues for the 2025 MIT Prize for Open Data: libraries.mit.edu/opendata/ope... #opendata #openscience #openscholarship

Squee! Congratulations Philip & socarxiv!

#openaccess downloads from #DSpace at MIT for March: libraries.mit.edu/news/open-ac... One of our most downloaded articles was.... a book! #amymoranthomas #travelingwithsugar

Book cover for Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action, by Catherine D'Ignazio

Check out the latest list of books we've supported to make #openaccess: libraries.mit.edu/news/librari... #OA #oamonographs #mitlibraries

"our libraries will be greatly impacted by the proposed 25% tariff on print books and it could result in millions of dollars in additional costs." @carl-abrc.bsky.social www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carls-r...

The Institute for Museum and Library Services Is Now a Propaganda Machine: Book Censorship News, March 21, 2025 DOGE didn't dismantle the only federal agency supporting public libraries. It was instead turned into a propaganda machine. That, plus this week's book censorship news.

Anyone who cares about #IMLS, but more importantly #intellectual_freedom and critical thinking, must read this latest piece by @heykellyjensen.bsky.social: bookriot.com/imls-propaga... #defendlibraries

Spring 2025 Campaign Forecast: Our Libraries on the Ballot We are supporting four critically important Spring 2025 local elections for libraries in four communities.

EveryLibrary is supporting four critically important Spring 2025 local elections for libraries in four communities. www.everylibrary.org/spring_2025_... Follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to support libraries.

#openaccess downloads from #DSpace @mitofficial.bsky.social for February: libraries.mit.edu/news/open-ac... Featured country: Finland!

Preserving public access to public data

In-person workshop coming up: Preserving public access to public data. Register here: calendar.mit.edu/event/preser...

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The ACS has deleted its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. And with that move, have shown they are worthy of none of the latter.
People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it.
www.acs.org/about/divers...

As Trump and Musk Upend Washington, Congressional Phones Can’t Keep Up In the three weeks since President Trump took office and gave Elon Musk free rein inside the federal government, millions of calls have poured in to members of Congress, jamming the system.

Ah, I guess this explains it: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Hi @markey.senate.gov ! Your voicemail in DC has been full for at least a week. How can I tell you what’s on my mind? (Hint: I don’t like what’s happening right now)

MIT Libraries open access statistics report in black and white. The report highlights download counts, articles, and a featured country, with a quote about discovering open access. "Open Access Downloads"

#openaccess downloads from #dspace @mitofficial.bsky.social for January: libraries.mit.edu/news/open-ac... Featured country: Switzerland! 611 downloads

GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

Here's a good use of #GitHub to track textual changes and page takedowns on federal govt web sites since #Trump took office.
www.404media.co/github-is-sh...

This project is dedicated to the pages on #DEI. I hope someone launches a similar project on the pages dedicated to science and research.

Hey #scholcomm #openaccess #openscholarship #library folks! Please follow our new MIT account: @mitlibscholarly.bsky.social

Pack One Bag | Lemonada Media The epic true story of an Italian family, split apart by love, fascism and war.

Really enjoying this podcast, though it’s scaring me a bit. lemonadamedia.com/show/pack-on... #fascism #whentoleave

Outstanding Academic Titles 2024: Top 10 OAT Reviews Part One - Choice 360 Read the latest list snippets from the 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles from Choice 360 and Choice Magazine. This week Outstanding Academic Titles 2024: Top 10 OAT Reviews Part One

One of the Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Titles of 2024: "The exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science." www.choice360.org/choice-pick/... @mitofficial.bsky.social

Attn Cambridge locals: We’re cohosting an event with the Art, Culture, and Technology department @ MIT tomorrow. A celebration of the artistic & intellectual legacy of Krzysztof Wodiczko, with the launch of Ian Wojtowicz’s new book “Interrogative Design.” Free to attend!

Leslie Ungerleider (1946 - 2020) was an extraordinary, pioneering neuroscientist. The latest issue of @jocn.bsky.social honors her legacy with articles authored by former colleagues & trainees that highlight critical aspects of her work and its influence https://buff.ly/4156UKw #cogsci #neuroscience

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