Mark Huskisson

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All opinions are mine (sometimes I do not agree and are subject to change without notification). Scholarly Publishing Technology | Open Infrastructure | Consultant | Dive Bar Enthusiast | Open Science

A frame from the Persepolis graphic novel of older Persian women chastising a younger girl for wearing a shirt that reads "Punk is not ded"
Text reading: Building Europe's Digital Future – Tech Sovereignty Package. Set against a blue Europe flag with the gold stars of the nation state members
A photograph that I took in December 2025 from a high bend in the road, looking down upon a snowy scene in the Canadian Rockies, showing the Icefields Parkway road stretching into the distance between two icy mountains. The road picks its way through a wintry forest towards a distant ice melt lake.
Image of the Bangkok river ferry with the large corporate Sheraton Hotel in the background
A cartoon image of Superman silhouetted against a vibrant block red background.
A diagram displaying the crawl-to-refer ratio of leading search platforms. This displays the ratio of HTML page crawl requests to HTML page referrals by platform. Showing Anthroic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and DuckDuckGoGo amongst others.
A header from the PLOS ONE journal displaying the title of the article: Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers by the authors Simon van Bellen, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Vincent Larivière.
A hand-sketched, rough image showing multiple building blocks precariously placed on top of each other. Some large, some small, but all dependent on one tiny block at the base. Which, if moved or lost, would topple the whole pile.
News header from the Knowledge Futures website reading "Not Enough: Open Infrastructure Funding and the Future of Knowledge Futures: Dated June 23, 2025
An image of the two company logos of Sage Publishing and Mary Ann Liebert Publishing merged to represent the new company merger.
The top of a letter on headed paper from the Taylor and Francis Group that reads "Dear Valued Author, Taylor & Francis is thrilled to announce the integration of Amsterdam University Press's book publishing assets into its portfolio. This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for all of us, and we're delighted to welcome you to the Taylor & Francis family."
Bright and airy entrance atrium of the library at the university of oslo. 30 metre high walls of glass with a staircase running up the centre of the space for three floors.
Simplistic image displaying the French words Décou Vrabilité. With two buttons at the bottom displaying the options accessibilité and bibliodiversité.
logo of stanford university press and the new logo, in red text, for the journal Reviews of Economic Literature
Rickety bookshelves with fading, aged, and decaying hardback books.