Toby Steiner

flavoursofopen@hcommons.social

Many flavours of open, background in media/TV & cultural studies • working @ <a href="https://hcommons.social/@Thoth_metadata" class="u-url mention">@Thoth_metadata</a> previously project manager Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (<a href="https://hcommons.social/@copim" class="u-url mention">@copim</a>) project • co-editor @ CSTonline <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/fedi22" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fedi22</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OAbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OAbooks</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#open

Posts

Post #1778902
My @copim colleague @simonxix has a new contribution in the LSE Impact blog, and raises some excellent points: &quot;Our knowledge sector is built on a foundation of software that is unreliable, not liked by users or staff, bloated with untested “AI” features, and which fails to protect us from increasing numbers of cyberattacks.&quot; https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/12/02/dont-rely-on-government-to-save-the-british-library/
Post #1499330
My @copim colleague @ScholTom explaining the Opening The Future model as part of the #Munin2023 workshop &quot;Getting Out From the Back of the Sofa: Sustainable Funding for Open Access Books&quot;
Post #1499327
See, that&#39;s how it&#39;s done! Congrats to the editors of Philosophy &amp; Public Affairs, one &quot;of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy&quot;, for their decision to leave Wiley and start their own, Diamond OA journal with @openlibhums 👏 &quot;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.&quot; https:/...
Post #1498718
Excellent piece in today&#39;s LSE Impact blog by my @copim colleague @simonxix on the recent British Library hack, and why this is just the tip of the iceberg of a completely devalued and underfunded landscape of HE IT (both in HE libraries and beyond) that has been zombified by years and years of outsourcing to cloud services that no-one actually bothers to test for any security-related flaws any more ... &quot;the institutional devaluing of library technical skills consolidates the p...
Post #935811
Oh, look at that! Our @copim info flyer made it to #oat23 in Berlin! Contact details of some of the community&#39;s initiatives, such as #openingthefuture ( @ScholTom ), @openbookcollect, and @Thoth_metadata (also, stickers!), plus a ScholarLed flyer are also available. #OAbooks #openinfrastructures
Post #701179
Generations of REF managers and admins, rejoice! Researchfish 🐟 is ceasing operations in mid-2027 ... so won&#39;t be around for the REF2029 cycle.... https://help.researchfish.com/en_US/researchers/information-for-researchers-regarding-researchfish-sunsetting
Post #701177
Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week! On Day 2, I&#39;ll be chairing a session on Metadata, dissemination challenges &amp; open community solutions for open access books and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku. Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a library publisher, on the varied issues related to book #metadata and #disseminat...
Post #701140
Open-Access-Tage 2025 #oat25 has just wrapped up, and our @copim and @openbookcollect colleague @joe_dev has already written up a lovely blog post summarising these splendid last three days ❤ @OATage &quot;Open access from the bottom up: Three open access days&quot; https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-access-from-the-bottom-up/release/2