Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
Posting the prickly bits about Open (Scholarship/Access/Science/Research) & Libraries. Bodleian Open Scholarship Librarian. Social🐘&🐦 =
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
@theblochian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.bsky.social & Co-Director of @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
@rupertgatti.bsky.social
Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Open Access advocate, co-founder & director of Open Book Publishers, Thoth Open Metadata and the Open Book Collective. Working in COPIM/OBF project developing infrastructure for OA book publishing. He/him.
@jofitz.bsky.social
I do the Accessibility work package for Copim/Open Book Futures at Lancaster University | Open Research librarian | Co-chair of NLISN.org | Actually autistic | I ❤️ divergency and wyrdness and all the magickal things | Profile photo is my cat Little Bruce
@cathdishman.bsky.social
Librarian who loves open access, open journals, repositories and running (not necessarily in that order). Also Content Officer for LIRG cilip special interest group
@missoliviareads.bsky.social
Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Wales Trinity St David (Birmingham). Former FE Library Manager and Secondary English teacher. UK 🇬🇧 Get in touch - missoliviareads@outlook.com
@varinajr.bsky.social
Librarian and open knowledge advocate at UofAberdeen. Lover of cats, yarn, tea, and liberation for all. All views my own. 🍵💙💜💗✡️🫒🍉
@philippagrand.bsky.social
Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing & open social science.
@dominiquewalker.bsky.social
Publishing Officer for the Scottish Universities Press, a fully OA not-for-profit publisher managed by 19 university libraries. https://sup.ac.uk Secretary for the Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) https://oipauk.org
@copim.bsky.social
An international partnership building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures to support open access book publishing. Find us at https://www.copim.ac.uk/ #OAbooks
@ojcollective.bsky.social
We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026. Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
@abartell.bsky.social
Director of Membership @crossref.bsky.social. Good metadata and bad puns please.
@nielsstern.bsky.social
Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation - providing open infrastructure services for scholarly books. Not-for-profit. Not-for-sale. POSI adopter.
@librarykirsten.bsky.social
Research Intelligence Librarian, formerly NHS librarian. Co-founder of Fair Library Jobs. UCU rep. Scholarly communications, research metrics, equity, pedantry, cats. She/her.
@creaght.bsky.social
AFHEA Librarian supporting research & scholarship, advocating for #OpenAccess passionate about #equity and education, committed to #bibliodiversity
@gemcq.bsky.social
Open Access Librarian | Artist and co-founder of liminalart org | 香港人 | #citylis alumnus | ASD | Interests: #OpenAccess, #OpenScience, Information theories & Contemporary art.
@ronaldsnijder.bsky.social
Should be reading books, instead of Blueskying... And yes, these are weird glasses.
@stefanbauer.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History at KCL, Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23
@katie-fraser.bsky.social
Librarian who loves technology & pop culture. Interests: #openresearch #openinfrastructure #scholcomm #bibliometrics #persistentidentifiers Working @researchconsulting.bsky.social ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0844-8734
@aarontay.bsky.social
I'm librarian + blogger from Singapore Management University. Social media, bibliometrics, analytics, academic discovery tech.
@mountainmamasboy.bsky.social
He/Him/His - Librarian - Pet & Houseplant Hoarder - DIYer in training
@lyndelleg.bsky.social
Academic librarian. Queensland University of Technology Library. Coordinator, Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) All about libraries, higher education, reading, information literacy, research training & support, open access, and… coffee.
@sfarleycharlie.bsky.social
Open Education and Playful Engagement at University of Edinburgh. 📚 Open Librarian 🃏 Playful Learner 🎲 Educational gamer Queer 🏳️🌈 | She/Her/Ms | Aussie Scot 🇦🇺 🏴 Board & RPGamer, #Endometriosis, #TransRights
@niamhtumelty.bsky.social
Director of LSE Library, Managing Director of LSE Press, Programme Director for LIBER Emerging Leaders. Cláirseach, gaeilge agus suathaireacht spóirt, here in personal capacity. Pronounced Nee-uv, it makes sense in Irish!
@liberkiely.bsky.social
they/them Librarian; Subs & Pubs; Systems; Open Access fan; occasionally amateurishly dramatic
@oipassoc.bsky.social
A community of practice for open institutional publishers in the UK, driving change in academic publishing.
@bschmid1.bsky.social
Open Science enthusiast & head of Knowledge Commons at University of Göttingen (UGOE) / State and University Library | Also at @bschmid1@mastodon.social https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8036-5859
@andrewsayerbcu.bsky.social
Learning & Teaching Librarian (Health, Life and Sports Sciences) at Birmingham City University (BCU), based in the Mary Seacole Library. Interests: war memorials (also posts under Britain's War Memorials on Twitter (X) and here) and woodfired pizza making.
@tmorley24.bsky.social
Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. UKSG eNews co-editor.
@hardyschwamm.bsky.social
Library, Open Science and related Open stuff, Ireland-based, UCC (University College Cork)
@hahnel.org
Figshare Founder, Digital Science, DataCite, DOAJ, re3data #openscience #openaccess #openresearch #desci #stemcells #genomes
@kestrelsward.bsky.social
They/them. Early-career librarian/archivist living in FL & working in higher ed archives & OER. Nonbinary, queer, disabled, white, divorced, parent Onequeerlibrarian.com Icon: Jonathan Poritz for OpenEd 2024 Banner: Isabelle Gedigk on Tumblr
@katie.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy
Librarian who loves technology and pop culture. Interests include #openresearch #scholcomm #openaccess #bibliometrics #discovery #persistentidentifiers [bridged from https://donphan.social/@katie on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@shlakeuva.bsky.social
UVa Library's Scholarly Repository Librarian and UVa's Data Mom - spending all her time saving Scholarly Research one bit at a time. Oh and loves baseball too!!
@walkyouhome.bsky.social
Librarian in HE | Union rep | Maker | Potterer Out in East Lothian usually
@overheardlib.bsky.social
Longtime library employee, listening to the bananas world around me at work.
@stephenpinfield.bsky.social
Professor of Information Services Management at the University of Sheffield, UK, interested in open access, open science, research policy, library and information services. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4696-764X
@johanrooryck.bsky.social
Linguist | Co-editor-in-Chief, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social | Executive Director, cOAlition S https://www.coalition-s.org | co-coordinator European Diamond Capacity Hub https://www.diamas.org
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
I work for #OpenAccess to research. Formerly directed the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause. Also […] [bridged from https://fediscience.org/@petersuber on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund. Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right […] [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@rmounce on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@tobyabgreen.bsky.social
Publisher, Policy Commons @policycommons.bsky.social and Applied Science Commons. Co-Founder Coherent Digital. Formerly Publisher, OECD. 🇬🇧 in 🇫🇷. ALAW (if you know, you know).
@celine-peignen.bsky.social
TUS Library Midlands, Open science and OER/OEP in particular
@pfin25.bsky.social
Subject Matter Expert Digital Scholarship @jisc Interested in all things academic library, humanities, including digital ones, science, and a bit of art does not go amiss. Views are inevitably my own. Team blog: https://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp
@jeroenbosman.bsky.social
scholarly communication specialist at Utrecht University library
@acraftylibrarian.bsky.social
Open Access Librarian living in the UK. Working in Open Access and academic publishing. May qualify as a yarn hoarder. Thoughts are my own. she/her
@ilkayholt.bsky.social
I am into #openaccess, #openresearch, #openGLAM. Currently #ScholComm Lead at the British Library and involved in several community works such as Open Repositories, Creative Commons's Open Culture Platform, CHOSN, ORCC, LIBER OAWG 🐾
@lisalibrarian.bsky.social