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Vancouver Public Library has been honoured by the City of Vancouver for an innovative digitization project in partnership with Internet Archive Canada. 🏆🇨🇦
Together, they’ve made thousands of rare & historical materials from British Columbia accessible online, preserving local heritage for future generations. 📚
Learn more ⤵️
https://internetarchivecanada.org/2025/11/12/vancouver-public-library-honoured-for-innovative-digitization-project-with-internet-archive-canada/

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Dimanche, La dernière (sur Radio Nova) était de retour à Toulouse.
L'invitée de l'émission était Audrey Dussutour, donc je recommande chaudement d'écouter le podcast entier : https://podcasts.nova.fr/radio-nova-la-derniere/202511092123-lintegrale-la-derniere-du-9-novembre-2025-avec-audrey-dussut

De mon côté on m'a à nouveau confié la chronique sciences !
Cette fois j'ai décidé de parler du fonctionnement scandaleux de l'édition scientifique, peu connu en dehors des labos : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg2C8xgjgX8

Mais 4 minutes c'est court, alors j'ajoute quelques ressources en réponse à ce post, pour les personnes intéressées !

Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️

Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.

Oxford: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526

Harvard: https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2024-04-23/harvard-library-launching-harvard-open-journals-program

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europe
https://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/
and one more, FWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-ore
Why is this BIG? 1/4

Maria Bustillos @maria & the Brick House team are the creative minds behind BRIET, a new exchange that invites publishers to sell eBooks to libraries, allowing libraries to own them, not just license them. Several indie publishers are already on board.

More via Publishers Weekly ⤵️
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/98310-library-startup-briet-wants-to-revolutionize-e-book-sales-not-licensing.html

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