The Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication spearheads initiatives to open, share, and preserve scholarship.

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Joined July 2010
Internet Archive is trending for yet another day and I really think @KyleKCourtney explaining the issues here surrounding CDL and the lawsuit could be helpful in clearing some issues up (including Chuck Wendig still getting dogpiled for criticizing the IA)
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Our Library VP and University Librarian Martha Whitehead, who chairs the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, says a new grant will enable @COAR_eV "to introduce significant innovation into the broad repository landscape in support of research." Read more about the funding:
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DASH has reached 50 million downloads! 🎉 Thank you to all of our contributing authors and, of course, to our readers around the globe––all of whom demonstrate the importance of #OpenAccess to scholarship. 🙏
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OSC Harvard retweeted
In this session, @DigLibCopyright (@DukeLibraries) and @KyleKCourtney (@OSCHarvard)—authors of the original controlled digital lending (CDL) white paper—will explain the basic CDL framework & review recent developments in law & policy. ⤵️ Register here. oc.lc/3r0Op76
We are incredibly excited to host our UK colleagues @jsecker & @cbowiemorrison w/ their blog post "#FairDealingWeek Makes a Home Coming." Read about UK #copyright, fair dealing & the plans for the UK's first full week of #fairdealing events! blogs.harvard.edu/copyrighto… #fairuseweek
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This Fair Use Week we teamed up with the @ssrc_org #MediaWell project to ask experts to reflect on how fair use supports research and journalism, & how #FairUse can help combat misinformation. Follow #FairUseWeek & @FairUseWeek for new content each day! ow.ly/4XRN50HZ6z3
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It's the 9th Annual #FairUseWeek! We are kicking off the celebration of #FairUse with a post by #copyright expert @kcrews exploring "Fair Use and Small Claims: Getting Ready for the Big Deal" blogs.harvard.edu/copyrighto…
New #HarvardContagionProject article in @HLBJournal: Taylor M. Moore writes on Egyptian old wives' tales, a mysterious medicine bundle in the @HarvardMuseums, & the connections "between histories of medicine ... & histories of anthropology & collecting": buff.ly/36p4iNo
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New to @HLBJournal and #HarvardContagionProject: @Stanford #historian Paula Findlen on the 17th-c. Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, first to study plague under the #microscope—and then wrote a book about it. @HMSCountway holds an original edition. Read more: buff.ly/33A6K2w
OSC Harvard retweeted
20 years ago today the BOAI offered the first definition of #OpenAccess. To mark the anniversary, in consultation with the community, the BOAI20 Steering Committee will be releasing a new set of recommendations, reflections & resources in the coming weeks. tinyurl.com/33ztejue
The AAP's lawsuit represents a pattern of behavior that demonstrates the commercial publishing industry’s continued disdain for the librarians, educators, and the public who simply want resources to provide access to materials. Read our statement. 👇🏾 libraryfutures.net/post/stat…
Update. Here's the @HarvardLibrary announcement, covering the changes to my role & to the @OSCHarvard. staff.library.harvard.edu/bl…
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We are so grateful for Peter Suber's unwavering commitment to open access. Thank you, Peter, for all that we have been able to do under your leadership at OSC! Read Peter's thread for more about his shift from directing OSC to focusing more on open-access consulting.
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2/ I'm stepping down from my position as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (@OSCHarvard). But I'll continue in a new half-time role devoted to internal & external consulting on #openaccess, starting next summer.
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What are open practitioners working on & how do they talk about it? Check out "In Practice: Interviews with Practitioners of Open"—a new series by & for members of the open community! 🔓🛠️ osc-harvard.pubpub.org/in-pr… New releases Oct 26 - Nov 19! #OAWeek #OAWeek2021
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New from In Practice: Julie Goldman @jgolds2 & Mitch Nakaue share their perspectives as Managing Editors for @JeSLIBJournal & @HLBJournal, respectively. Go behind the scenes with these no-fee #OpenAccess journals! 👀 Read it here: osc-harvard.pubpub.org/pub/i…
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We're rounding out the In Practice series with @hlrdmp's Katie Mika who talked with Amy Nurnberger, Program Head of Data Management Services @mitlibraries, about #OpenData, principles of data citation & more! 📊 Read it here: osc-harvard.pubpub.org/pub/i…
Registration is open for the 3rd annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day! #NIRD21 🤓
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OSC Harvard retweeted
For #OAWeek our Managing Editor @jgolds2 talked about her volunteer work for #JeSLIB and all things #OpenAccess publishing. 🧡 Check it out! ⬇️
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New from In Practice: Julie Goldman @jgolds2 & Mitch Nakaue share their perspectives as Managing Editors for @JeSLIBJournal & @HLBJournal, respectively. Go behind the scenes with these no-fee #OpenAccess journals! 👀 Read it here: osc-harvard.pubpub.org/pub/i…
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