Tim Elfenbein

To all the folks in scholarly communication/publishing/open science out there: 1. I appreciate the work you do. 2. I likely have significant differences w/ you or your organization over strategic direction, stakeholder orientation, ideals for the future, etc., etc. 3. I appreciate the work you do.

1/x OK, A little thread about wind force on ships. Can the bow thruster hold this ship against the wind, or does she need tugs? Some ships are like a big wall (cruise ships, container ships PCTC). Here is the rule-of-thumb arithmetic behind that call. #shiphandling

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

COSTS & FUNDING: Read our deep dive into the finances of #OpenAccess book publishing, with a review of our costs and revenues from the last financial year and a comparison with six years ago. What's changed? buff.ly/xDf5s3K #OAWeek #OpenAccessWeek #OAbooks #OA

Knowledge production, publishing, and research dissemination are part of the same whole. And we should work on drawing them closer together.

JOB(S): My dept has an open rank open specialties (w/in Information Science / Library & Archival Science & closely related) search out of which we hope to make multiple hires! Im not on the committee but can say we'll have new teaching needs in social impacts of information technology & also ethics!

Joining @openbookcollective.bsky.social for an #OAWeek webinar on "Making the case: how libraries justify support for open access" looking at the theme of "The Cost of Knowledge" #openaccess #diamondOA

💥New | From print to digital and back again – Why the cost of academic books keeps changing ✍️ Jen McCall #AcademicPublishing #OAWeek #OABooks @lsepress.bsky.social

For #OAweek, our Executive Director Professor Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social) spoke to SPARC about the @ojcollective.bsky.social, inspired by the Open Library of Humanities, and what motivates her to challenge academic publishing cultures. Read the interview 👇

Lots to think about in this post by @kjsanders.eurosky.social on what 'open access publishing' is and how it is developing. Is the goal simply to have more "outputs" (ugh) be available openly, or does it matter how we get there?

So proud of what my colleague and friend, Prof Caroline Edwards, is doing. She is building the diamond OA funding structure, at scale, of which we dreamed when we established OLH: OJC. https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profiles/open-journals-collective

Interesting-looking new (OA) article on the long-term preservation of scholarly blogs https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.70126

A new paper from me, on organised irresponsibility in AI estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

We are sorry to learn of the death of Duke Professor Ara Wilson, who served on our Editorial Advisory Board and who had a chapters in "Unsettling Queer Anthropology" and "Asian Biotech." Our thoughts are with her family, colleagues, and students. buff.ly/IsLOsxJ

What is the cost of knowledge? Find out what this year's #OAWeek theme means to #CopimCommunity Head to our website to find out more! 👉 buff.ly/S9PFs6n @beckywojturska.bsky.social @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social

How to navigate the transition from working in primarily library-based roles to a publisher ... and more! Join Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social and Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social bsky.social for another episode of our #ScholComms #CareerJourney on.soundcloud.com/pKiOlq9o29vF...

While seeing all the posts from the #4S meeting made me quite nostalgic for academic conferences & getting to geek out w/ fellow scholars over their latest projects, thankfully I’m attending the Annapolis Boat Show this week, where I get to geek out w/ fellow sailors over the latest boats & gear.

In response to the government’s renaming of AI to SI, I propose all journals rename Supplemental Information to Additional Information.

From the Katina Magazine archive 🗄️: a resource advisor review of Thoth and what libraries should know about it: katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #KatinaMagazine #CharlestonConference #CharlestonHub #OpenInfra #OpenAccess #OpenSource #OAbooks

My wife likes to call me swarthy (I’m slightly darker skinned than her, likely because my ancestors ate mainly beats while hers cabbage), but she keeps getting it mixed up with smarmy. I’ve played out the different definitions for her several times, but she doesn’t seem to want to learn.

Did the rig survey today. Only one surprise—which isn’t terrible given the kind of surprises that can happen—is that we have a wasp nest somewhere in the mast.

An obituary of Vince Rafael, sorely missed. @dukepress.bsky.social

I am absolutely delighted to announce that the open access version of "In Referees We Trust? How Peer Review Became a Mark of Scientific Legitimacy" is now live! Want to know more about how scholars' lives came to be ruled by Reviewer 2? Download the book FREE at: direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...

Intelligence is not a universal solvent. It doesn't fix everything. The people pushing these ideas only believe this is true because they desperately want it to be true. They want the world to be much, much simpler than it actually is. But we live in a complicated world, and that's a good thing.

The Scholarly Publishing Collective (out of @dukepress.bsky.social), @Westchester Publishing Services, and Scholastica have launched Allied Journal Publishing Solutions to provide nonprofits with coordinated technology and workflow support. 🔗Watch the webinar on demand: buff.ly/i594YTA

2+ years later, I am still a little perplexed that r(eplicability)-hacking by high-profile names has not created even a tenth of the outrage or pushback that any given p-hacking case regularly does, despite all the evidence. it says a lot about not what we care about but why.

authors, y'all know that production/project editors do not read your manuscripts line by line, right? I mention this in a spirit of sincerity. I wouldn't expect an author to have this knowledge unless they were already very familiar with the publishing process.

I'm very excited and honored to be part of this seminar series! I'll be talking about the vulnerability of social infrastructure within the knowledge ecosystem. Please consider registering!

We are very pleased to open our first public call for Expressions of Interest for individual journals to join OJC! Are you a publisher or journal team with a specific journal that you'd like to nominate to join the OJC collection? Apply by Oct 30th! www.openjournalscollective.org/news/express...

'Sage Community Open Access' www.sagepub.com/journals/inf... Curious to know who the community is that's referenced here, and how they can influence this community initiative.

Love to see this but man the Story of the Walkman was an Open University textbook written towards the end of Stuart’s 18 year tenure there. He taught 10000s of OU students & that seems kind of airbrushed out of his legacy www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Guest Post – Do Not Go Gentle: Duke University Press Turns 100 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/08/g...

With the new semester our lecture series is returning as well. In our first talk next Wednesday, Jacqueline Sachse will discuss how metrics shape researchers’ attention and which scholarly articles are deemed relevant. As always, you can join us online or in person, no registration necessary.