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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 26/03/2026

100% accurate guide to the types of Open Access #academicsky 📚

An infographic titled "The Types of Open Access: A Field Guide," styled with Stardew Valley pixel art icons representing different materials. Ten types are listed:
Gold Open Access (gold ingot icon): The journal has no paywall, generally paid for by authors through APCs (article processing charges).
Diamond Open Access (blue diamond icon): Gold but no APC. Funded by an institution, scholarly society or collective.
Hybrid Open Access (brown lump icon): This journal lets you pay a ransom to open individual articles but still charges subscription fees to the community. What a bargain!
Green Open Access (grass icon): Author self-archives their own copy on a preprint server or research repository. Can usually be done with paywalled articles under certain conditions.
Bronze Open Access (bronze ingot icon): It's freely available on the publisher's website but has no CC license. Is this a mistake? What is this?
Silver Open Access (silver ingot icon): I'm giving a runner up prize. Could have been gold but for some reason the author chose a CC BY-NC-ND license.
Pyrite "Fool's Gold" Open Access (pyrite nuggets icon): Oops! Predatory publishers will take your APC money, but their services are fake. Beware!
Geode Open Access (geode icon): A librarian can break this open for you using the power of interlibrary loan.
Black Open Access (skull and crossbones icon): I don't know who started calling it this, but it just means piracy. They'll steal anything, including OA valor.
Slime Open Access (grey slime icon): Just slide into the author's DMs and ask for a PDF. You'd be surprised how often this works.

Cadence Cordell @cadenceac.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I'm happy to share that this July, I'll be starting as the Digital Publishing Manager for Washington University Libraries in St. Louis! I'm so excited for this next step forward, and I'm thankful for all the support I've received in grad school at UIUC.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 30/01/2025

Guys, I know I’ve posted this article a lot in the last two weeks. But I’m so serious. They’re not fucking around, and major executive action aimed at trans literature could happen as soon as tomorrow. The time to take action to protect trans books and authors is *now.*

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Cadence Cordell @cadenceac.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Finally finished this project: took my LOEX poster on hybrid workshops and transformed it into this little squirrel plush! The graphs on its torso were to represent in-person/online attendance stats, and the QR codes linked to resources on hybrid workshop design and examples.

Squirrel plush sitting on a table. The head has button eyes and is made of fabric with writing on it.

Squirrel plush. The body is made of fabric with bar graphs on it, and the tail fabric has a QR code on it.

Squirrel plush photographed to better show the body and tail. The body has bar graphs on it, and the tail has QR codes.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...

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Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization

How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

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Cadence Cordell @cadenceac.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi Bluesky! I've been here a while, but I'm a perennial lurker on social media and never introduced myself. My name is Cadence Cordell, and I'm a graduate student working towards my MLIS degree and graduating this Spring 2025.

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