In April, the EU set the fox to guard the henhouse by subcontracting Elsevier to monitor Open Science. The open access push in the EU and its advocates have had issues with Elsevier for a long while. It is not surprising that the community reaction to the news was negative. According to the complaint, a Read More
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KIND of a Big Deal
I am planning to write a full review of the Latino Caucus’ ribbon fundraiser for Kids in Need of Defense, but I wanted to provide a quick update as everyone was so excited about it. We sold every one of the 300 ribbons (including the one on my badge) and far exceed my original hope of $150 by Read More
Tech Competencies For Librarians
Edit: This like was updated to direct to the open preprint. Over a year ago, I responded to a call for proposals to the Journal of Academic Librarianship. I was just a few months into my new job and fresh out of library school. I was pretty sure I would get rejected, but I thought it would be Read More
For Family
Every story I read about the children separated from family hurts my heart more, and I feel as though it is a bit more difficult to breathe each time. It hits me deeply as my Abuela had to leave two of her four sons, my tios, behind in Cuba in order to build something for everyone Read More