#access-to-knowledge — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #access-to-knowledge, aggregated by home.social.
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Sharing my cross-blog post about #SecondaryPublicationRight #SPR event in Lisbon, last month:
«Portuguese Civil Society Proposes Secondary Publication Rights and Obligation»
#KnowledgeRights21:
https://knowledgerights21.org/news-story/pt-secondary-publication-rights/#Communia:
https://communia-association.org/2026/03/20/portuguese-civil-society-proposes-secondary-publication-rights-and-obligation/ -
📊 Our 2025 Annual Report is out!
Over the past year, COMMUNIA continued working to strengthen the #PublicDomain and improve #accesstoknowledge and #culture across Europe.
Learn more about our impact and read it here 👇
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🎙️ Have you heard Future Knowledge?
This #podcast from the Internet Archive (@internetarchive) and Authors Alliance (@AuthorsAlliance) explores how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved in the digital age.
Listen & subscribe ⤵️ Over 20 episodes out now!
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Copyright laws built for physical scarcity now wall off digital culture. 🧱💾
Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) explains the mechanics of these “walls” on the Future Knowledge #podcast in WALLED CULTURE, with Maria Bustillos joining the discussion.
🎧 Listen ➡️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/walled-culture
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Education is a powerful tool for transformation, yet it often remains unattainable for many.
Why is access to quality learning still limited? Reflecting on the systemic barriers that inhibit growth can help foster solutions.
Together, we can advocate for inclusive approaches to education.
The journey towards accessible knowledge is a shared responsibility.
How do we dismantle these barriers? #Education #AccessToKnowledge #Advocacy
For more information,
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40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice
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"What a great time to be #Google. Not only is it facing only the meekest of punishments for abusing its #monopoly of the #search market, it is actually now positioned to further entrench its dominance of our information landscape.
This is a perilous moment to be granting one company this much control over global #accesstoknowledge."
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Just been made aware that many student unions in the UK now have “liberation officers”.
Trump would hate it, no doubt.
It got me thinking though... what if research library staff thought of themselves as knowledge liberation officers, and the research staff too?
More liberation please!
After all, what’s more horridly colonial than being complicit in allowing large commercial publishers to have exclusive control on who gets access to knowledge? 🧐
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Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resign
Walled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site Retraction Watch reports on the mass […]
#academicPublishing #AccessToKnowledge #accessibility #ai #apc #copyediting #editing #elsevier #journals #openAccess #production #profits #resignations #retractions #subscriptions
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How modern Mountweasels could block generative AI and undermine access to knowledge
Last week, an interesting problem with the generative AI system ChatGPT emerged, reported here by Ars Technica:
people discovered that the name “David Mayer” breaks ChatGPT. 404 Media also discovered that the names “Jonathan Zittrain” and “Jonathan Turley” caused ChatGPT to cut conversations short. And we know another name, likely the first, that started the practice last year: Brian Hood. […]
#AccessToKnowledge #ai #blocking #chatgpt #defamation #genai #mountweasel #searchEngines
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Where open access has failed to reform academic publishing, perhaps antitrust law will succeed
The open access movement has been trying for over 20 years to promote the widest access to knowledge. Sadly, as numerous Walled Culture posts have chronicled, what should be a matter of social justice has been subverted by clever and cynical moves from the academic publishing industry in order to retain their fabulous profit margins. As a result, the open access movement has failed to deliver […]
#AccessToKnowledge #antiTrust #damages #elsevier #embargo #ingelfingerRule #injunctiveRelief #openAccess #peerReview #sage #sharing #springerNature #taylorFrancis #wiley #woltersKluwer
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10/20 "Access to Knowledge -in the age of intellectual property"
#AccessToInformation #AccessToKnowledge #OpenAccess #Copyright
(I was once asked in a kind of job interview about my personal motivation. My answer: access to knowledge. I got the job.)Book Challenge: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days.
#20books #20books20days #BooksThatInfluencedYou #Books
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@boeken
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Home alone with bad internet: why online university students in regional Australia are turning to study hubs
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“OA publications are 38% more prevalent in patent citations (NPRs) than in the overall @OpenAlex database. In biology and medicine, inventors use 73% and 27% more OA publications, respectively, compared to closed-access ones.”
Source preprint: “The Nexus of Open Science and Innovation: Insights from Patent Citations” https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15281 by Abdelghani Maddi (2024)
HT @petersuber
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How an American activist helped make Indian standards available for free.
Carl Malamud ( @carlmalamud ) a 64-year old self-described Gandhian, had made it his life’s mission to make all information accessible to the public, everywhere.
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Internet Archive: new copyright laws for generative AI would “further entrench” market leaders
The current excitement over artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, has now reached the stage where governments feel they need to do something about it in terms of regulations. The EU’s AI Act was drawn up before generative AI took off, but is now being retro-fitted with bad ideas to take account of recent developments. Meanwhile, across the …
#AccessToCulture #AccessToKnowledge #ai #BrewsterKahle #competition #generativeAi #InternetArchive #licensing #privacy #study #usCopyrightOffice
https://walledculture.org/internet-archive-new-copyright-laws-for-generative-ai-would-further-entrench-market-leaders/
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No big deal: calling the publishers’ bluff on high-price access to publicly-funded research 👉 @glynmoody reflects on research by @nicholasmfraser @Philipp_Mayr, @Isabella83 @najkoja @anhobert
#OpenAccess #Research #AcademicTwitter #AccessToKnowledge
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The EU has brought back opt-in copyright for text and data mining: let’s build on that foundation - @glynmoody
#TDM #copyright #MachineLearning #TextAndDataMining #AccessToKnowledge #AcademicTwitter
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The lawsuit we're fighting isn’t just about the Internet Archive. It will determine the future of all libraries & their patrons, including those with print disabilities. #Accesstoknowledge for diverse communities will be impacted 🌍
Over the next 20 days until we go to court, we’ll be giving you 20 reasons to care about this lawsuit. We can’t wait to introduce you to the teachers, doctors, journalists & many more who rely on our lending library #EmpoweringLibraries https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive
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Copyright has been one of life’s certainties: but will it always be?
@glynmoody reflects how the Internet enables an alternative path for creators & creativity to flourish, without relying on control
#Copyright #AccessToKnowledge #AccessToCulture #TrueFans
https://walledculture.org/copyright-has-been-one-of-lifes-certainties-but-will-it-always-be/ -
Join us JAN 20TH in San Francisco for our in-person celebration of the #PublicDomain and #accesstoknowledge! Reserve a spot now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-domain-day-party-in-san-francisco-tickets-477675589547
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JAN 20TH: Join us in San Francisco to celebrate the #PublicDomain and #accesstoknowledge! Reserve your spot for our IN-PERSON event now: https://eventbrite.com/e/public-domain-day-party-in-san-francisco-tickets-477675589547
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@ton that's an important point, that search is contentious because it governance-by-instance, which is probably the strongest principle underlying #Mastodon governance. and it's the exact opposite of the idea of instance blocking - it benefits from a complete, instead of fractured view. I still think there are good reasons to have search, which boil down to an #AccessToKnowledge argument. Making this another case of the dichotomy between openness and privacy.
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Science benefits from access to prior research, but that knowledge is often locked-away for all the wrong reasons 👉 #WorldScienceDay is a good reminder of why we need to tear down the walls 🧱 around content
Fight for #AccessToKnowledge❗ https://walledculture.org/the-book/ #FreeEbook
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@Lambo @SarahLamdan @senficon since you like open textbooks (me too), you might be interested in my new CC0-licensed book "Walled Culture" that discusses #openaccess and #accesstoknowledge in detail (& much else). free ebook versions here: https://walledculture.org/the-book/
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The shift to #OpenAccess didn’t solve the affordability issues institutions face around #AccessToKnowledge - @glynmoody https://walledculture.org/open-access-is-taking-over-but-academic-institutions-are-paying-as-much-money-as-ever-what-happened/
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#DiamondOpenAccess is the way forward
@glynmoody spells out why
👉 https://walledculture.org/who-knew-diamond-open-access-publishing-is-not-rare-at-all-but-actually-very-common/
👉 https://walledculture.org/the-book/ #FreeEbook
