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Want to start building a free ebook library but don't know where to begin?
Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, OAPEN — which to use, how to organize, and what reader apps work best.
#ebooks #reading #FreeBooks #Bookstodon #FediReads #PublicDomain #OpenAccess
A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Free eBook Collection
A few years ago, I stumbled onto something that genuinely changed how I read.The Open Shelf
Amazon just pulled Kindle Store access from every Kindle released before 2013. The hardware still works. Your books still work. Side-loading EPUBs over USB still works.
The fix is the same one that's worked since 2007 — and here's exactly how to do it, step by step:
A paper that I co-authored was just published (#OpenAccess) a few minutes ago in Nature 🎉 nature.com/articles/s41586-026…
Here's a short thread about what we did and what we learned 👇
#LightPollution #Energy #ALAN #RemoteSensing #NightLightRemoteSensing #EarthObservation #VIIRS_DNB
Satellite imagery reveals increasing volatility in human night-time activity - Nature
Daily satellite data reveal that Earth’s artificial lights at night are highly volatile, with frequent brightening and dimming between 2014 and 2022.Nature
Update. Here's the key passage from the new #Trump budget proposing a "Government-Wide Prohibition on Publishing and Subscription Fees."
See p. 17.
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"The Budget ends the diversion
of research dollars to high priced publishers across the Government. The Budget prohibits the use of
Federal funds for expensive subscriptions to academic journals and prohibitively high publishing costs unless required by Federal statute or approved in advance by a Federal agency. Research funded by
taxpayers should be publicly accessible; yet many publications charge the Government to both publish and to access the same research study. There are numerous low-cost outlets to make federally-funded research publicly available."
h/t Jim O'Donnell
#APCs #DoubleDipping #OpenAccess #Publishing #ScholComm #Subscriptions
"Publishing will remain completely free for both European Commission-funded researchers and authors from participating countries. The aim is to promote equity, diversity and transparency in scholarly communication while maintaining high standards of quality and integrity."
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CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform
In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organi…CERN
