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Esther Fagelson (she/her)

@estfagelson.bsky.social
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Open access manager at Bloomsbury. Big fan of cats, equity in publishing, unions, and independent cinema. All views my own.

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Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Looking for #OpenAccess scholarship to spark your ideas? 💡 Discover our most popular OA titles: www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/open-access/popular-and-most-accessed 📚 & explore your OA options: www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/open-access/publishing-open-access 🔓
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Happy #OpenAccessWeek to all who celebrate
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Is it time we bring back #FunFridays and share the more whimsical side of #OpenAccess publishing news? My entry this week is the OA journals card game created by librarians at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social If only they had an #OpenAccessBooks version 🤔https://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/12035/
Player card from the Open Access Alchemy game. Character shown is "Liesandra Ravenwood", a wizard with long hair and a raised arm, shown saying "My magic should be free for all to cast"
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Mega pumped to share @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social has surpassed 500 #openaccess books! Bring on the next milestone 🔓
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a man with a mustache is wearing a blue jacket and a leopard print shirt .
Alt: a man with a mustache is wearing a blue jacket and a leopard print shirt is throwing a handful of sparkly confetti
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Mega chuffed that I am now able to share that the Bloomsbury Open Collections subscribe-to-open #OpenAccess model will add 24 new open access titles throughout the year, at no cost to the authors
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‘Bloomsbury Open Collections’ builds with a further 24 open access titles
Bloomsbury Open Collections has reached 42% of its funding goal globally for 2024-25, ensuring a further 24 titles are added.
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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We're excited to announce a vacancy for a community manager: barcelona-declaration.org/vacancy_comm... This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the successful realization of the Barcelona Declaration’s vision Deadline for application: March 20
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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
Vacancy - Community Manager This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the successful realization of the Barcelona Declaration’s vision by fostering collaboration, driving progress, ...
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📣 Any writers over 50 out there looking for somewhere to submit their work? (And anyone of any age who enjoys reading short stories and flash fiction should take a look at Issue 2) #litmag #writing #shortstories #opencall
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Aha you raise a good point around BPCs, but there also several community/collective funded OA books models. Bloomsbury Open Collections, to name one, prioritises supporting ECRs, unaffiliated authors, & authors in LMICs who otherwise couldn't fund OA publication (to pick a totally random example 😉)
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Great to see this milestone in #OABooks!
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Nicko Goncharoff and Elliott Lumb used fun interactive approach to a complex and concerning topic - the future of research integrity. In amongst the many many AI responses from #R2RConf were a few other ideas including funding, and disinformation culture
Slide showing sample of live submitted responses to the question "what worries you most about research integrity in the next 3 years?". Responses include AI, Kennedy, lack of institutional accountability, culture of dis- and misinformation and guidelines.
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OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This morning @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social gave a lightning talk at @r2rconf.bsky.social on 'Bibliodiversity and Open Access Book Platforms'. Did you know the OAPEN Library has titles in 75+ languages? library.oapen.org/browse?type=... Tell us your thoughts on language & bibliodiversity #OAbooks
A photo of a big screen while a slide titled 'Global reach and national preferences for open access books'. The slides shares the assumptions and results for the languages of titles in the OAPEN Library. A 'Conclusion' slide on a big screen telling people there are different aspects to bibliodiversity. It also lists some further reading into the topic.
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I completely appreciate the constraints of the debate format and your background knowledge and really appreciate this hands up moment. In return, hands up, I've never been a librarian and equally have no solutions to the funding/profit concerns across publishing but always happy to chat
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
And the results are in for the #R2RConf debate. Caroline Black is the winner shifting the poll to 66% disagree, down from 84%* at the start. (*I misreported 82% when it was 84%)
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Both sides have admitted some gaps in understanding of scholarly books publishing, and in particular OA books publishing. The conversation feels very slanted toward STEM, once again leaving AHSS beind in the world of scholarly publishing #R2RConf
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As ever, scholarly books (monographs, edited collections etc) have been left out of the debate thus far. Preprints don't work for longer form texts, and many subjects work through books rather than articles. #R2RConf
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Some evidenced points to push back against these arguments from Webster (various peer review models, cross publisher RI strategies etc). Time for questions from the floor
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Black counters that publishing isn't accessible, the peer review process is an outdated model, and publishers have grown too large to truly provide integrity oversights (integrity concerns being a common theme of the conference)
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Keith Webster, dean of libraries at CMU, argues publishers make research accessible, peer review is vital to quality control, publisher oversight maintains integrity of research records
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Initial poll of #R2RConf is 82% disagree. Let's see if Caroline Black from CUP can sway opinions
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ah thank you! I'll quickly delete my draft message asking for the papers so I can read them later
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Bracing myself for a spicy debate at #R2RConf: Scholarly publishers are no longer necessary 👀😬
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Interesting lightning talk from @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social to kick off the break at day 2 of #R2RConf. Two case studies of bibliodiversity in OA books: print language and subject area. Definitely some food for thought on what and why some languages dominate OA publishing
Slide showing overview of OA book language of publishing prefences with French most popular in African countriesSlide showing clustered subjects and countries in open access books. Economics and education dominant in east and south African countries. Society and social sciences, military history in countries neighbouring Russia
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Happy to let my open books bias come through as I listen to @kirahopkins.bsky.social and Rose Harris-Birtill present a case study on OLH and OA collective funding of humanities books. Love the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Bloomsbury Open Collections shout out too #R2RConf
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Session 2 at #R2RConf discusses open science and open data policies. Dr Beth Montague-Hellen argues policy may not be as effective as clear specific guidance from publishers, institutions, and funders
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
First panel of #R2RConf explores how to engage policy makers with research. Elevator pitches and short form publications are the most digestible and accessible formats, but what does this mean for monographs?
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thought provoking keynote from Prof John Willinsky on ethics and integrity in scholarly publishing and open source research to kick us off at #R2RConf
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Esther Fagelson (she/her) @estfagelson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Looking forward to Day 1 of the #r2rconf
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