#bigdeals
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #bigdeals from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-31 05:49 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-31 05:49 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-31 05:49 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 9 public posts (spanning ~31439 hours).
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Languages: English (8) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 8.1
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4/ Historical footnote. In 2002 the UK Office of Fair Trading (#OFT) reviewed complaints about #BigDeals and other #anticompetitive practices in academic #publishing. It found market distortions but decided 𝘯𝘰𝘵 to act — because of the th
"#MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing its largest journal contract [with #Elsevier] as overwhelmingly positive." https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/ #Academia #BigDeals #
"Lessons Learned from Reevaluating Big Deals with Unsub" -- open access at Serials Review, by @sckottie https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00987913.2022.2132090 boosts welcome #Libraries #ResearchLibraries #ScholComms #OpenAccess
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