@radishpress

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Radish Press is an experimental publishing initiative founded on the idea that publishing is a powerful tool that should be a lot more accessible. Founded by @zwhnz
New from @radishpress 🗯️✨ An Attempt Is Made: Publishing a Zine Through Scholarly Channels. Follow along with an experiment in sneaking non-traditional scholarly formats into The System https://outsidethelines.pub/publishing-a-zine-through-scholarly-channels/
An Attempt Is Made: Publishing a Zine Through Scholarly Channels

As far as I’m concerned, pretty much anything can be considered scholarship. I like books, journals are fine, but if someone wants to use a podcast or a zine or a meme to communicate about their area of expertise, that should count for just as much. Yes, yes, peer

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IT'S ALIVE!! Life happens, right? We're still trying to figure out a rhythm with this thing, but we're back with a few great pieces over the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

Are you attending the Library Publishing Forum this week?

We'll be there, too! ZOE WAKE HYDE @zwhnz, PKP Open Monograph Press (OMP) Coordinator, will present Wednesday, May 7, 12 -1 PM ET, on "A Global View on the Evolution of Open Book Publishing".

Hope to meet you there!

Check out the program and register: https://librarypublishing.org/program/

#LPF25 #OpenMonographPress #OpenBooks #OpenAccess #OpenBookPublishing

Program | Library Publishing Coalition

Join us for a Publishing How-To Roundtable on May 16 at 1pm ET! We'll be talking about innovative ways to share your scholarly ideas and offer advice on building communities of practice around publishing. Attendance is capped at 100, so grab a spot asap: https://forms.gle/cHLd1yrMYpwtgFkYA

This event is organised by Play Story Press (https://playstorypress.org) where my co-panelists have been doing amazing work facilitating community-led publishing in the field of games & play.

Publishing How-To Zoom Roundtable Sign Up

Play Story Press is excited to host a Publishing How-To Zoom Roundtable. This sessions focuses on a variety of innovative ways you can share your scholarly ideas to make the most impact. We will also offer tips for building communities of practice to help grow fields of knowledge. Our panelists will share their stories and perspectives and help facilitate group discussion and Q&A with attendees: -Drew Davidson & Brad King - Editors at Play Story Press -Lindsay Grace - Knight Chair in Interactive Media at the University of Miami -Zoe Wake Hyde - Director at Radish Press -David Thomas - Co-Founder of Professors at Play Key Takeaways * Find out the specific tools and processes you can use to produce a book, with or without a publisher * Challenge norms and notions of academic publishing and dissemination of scholarship * Learn how open access can transform your reach and impact * Rethink scholarly publishing formats * Understand why community matters! The event runs Friday, May 16 at 1:00PM(Eastern) for 90 minutes. To help facilitate discussions, we're capping at 100 attendees, so we'll accept attendees based on a first come, first serve basis (and we'll record the session so we can share the video for future reference). If you're interested in attending, please sign up below. We'll keep the form open until Noon(Eastern) on May 12, or until we have 100 applicants. Accepted attendees will be notified after the form is closed, no later than May 13. And any questions, just send email to: [email protected]

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"As information professionals, open advocates, and communities who just give a damn, it’s important to educate ourselves on the tactics pro-censorship advocates have used to push their agenda forward so we can effectively fight against it" - @LibrariansReed on the must-read @libraryfutures report on censorship in US libraries. Talk about timely. Check out our latest #InProfile: https://buff.ly/pdqvVzr
In Profile: Neo-Censorship in U.S. Libraries, with Michelle Reed

Neo-Censorship in U.S. Libraries: An Investigation Into Digital Content Suppression is a painfully timely report into digital censorship in the United States, released by Library Futures in February 2025. It is an essential documentation of how our knowledge infrastructures are threatened, eroded, and deployed to ideological ends. Library Futures's

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Thank you Association of University Presses for fighting censorship by signing and amplifying the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship! https://aupresses.org/news/aupresses-supports-anti-censorship-declaration/ @petersuber
AUPresses Supports Anti-Censorship Declaration - Association of University Presses

AUPresses joins with individual and institutional members of the scholarly communications community to assert that researchers must be freely able to conduct, collaborate on, share, review, and discuss their research.

Association of University Presses

The Open Access Directory (#OAD) is looking for a co-editor. Please spread the word.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/The_OAD_is_looking_for_a_co-editor

I'm an OAD co-founder and serve on the editorial board. I look forward to working with the new person.

The OAD is a crowdsourced reference work on #OpenAccess, launched in 2008.
http://oad.simmons.edu

The OAD is looking for a co-editor - Open Access Directory

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

Petition e-5359 - Petitions

Update. "Journalism organizations call for restoration of public data."
https://www.nasw.org/article/journalism-organizations-call-restoration-public-data

"Leaders of five #journalism organizations, including the National Association of Science Writers and representing more than 7,000 members in the United States and abroad, sent the following letter to the heads of eight U.S. federal agencies that have recently removed public datasets and databases funded by Americans’ tax dollars."

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Journalism organizations call for restoration of public data

Leaders of five journalism organizations, including the National Association of Science Writers and representing more than 7,000 members in the United States and abroad, sent the following letter to the heads of eight U.S. federal agencies that have recently removed public datasets and databases funded by Americans’ tax dollars.

Looking for inspiration? Motivation? Validation? Distraction? Introducing the Don't Overthink It Writing Club, from OTL. Every month, we'll share a prompt to get the gears turning, then you have 2 weeks to submit something short and sweet, and we'll publish them the following month. Read all about it: https://buff.ly/41lT4TW
Introducing the Don't Overthink It Writing Club

I know we're all usually very cool and chill about what we put out into the world, but maybe sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming. But there are good things in your head and you don't have to go right to the grandest, most perfect stage to get them

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