When at a Web page… click to send the URL to a script… the script parses the full-text page into a junk-cleaned Readability format… then passes that cleaned Web page into your personal RSS feed of articles.

This is now done by Tobias Franke, as a standalone .php script and a bookmarklet. There are a couple of caveats. You have to have paid-for hosted web-space, and space that won’t throw a fit over a new .php file. Also it relies on FiveFilters to do RSS extraction, so is not private. However, the maker shows how to use Composer to do the same locally.

See also: rsstodolist, but there your custom feed is publicly accessible to anyone who knows the address.

Public Diffusion Private Beta, a core Stable Diffusion AI image-generator rival which is totally trained on “public domain and CC0 images”. Only. And it has also (according to the maker) never seen any manga or anime etc. Apparently to be fully open source.

Update, May 2025. Six months on, and no release. It’s starting to look like vapourware…

The Prado museum in Spain freely shares 6,000 art history books and nearly as many magazines. Regrettably, their website is so painfully slow that I wasn’t able to test it.

From COAR, a handy new one-page Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories (DOAPR). These are not being added en masse to JURN, I should perhaps add.

New in open source, Tagasuarus for annotating a locally-stored collection of media and documents. Images, audio, video, PDFs. The annotations are then stored with the files, and can then be searched across. No full AI to add rich image classifications, as yet. But there is a limited AI that can “automatically apply emotions [tags] when the images/videos have faces”.

New in open access, the article “Beyond borders: Examining the role of national learned societies in the social sciences and humanities”. Actually, not proper open access, as it appears you need to “log in” to Wiley to download or print (neither works for me without a log in). Thankfully Google Scholar is on the case, and having none of that nonsense — searching for the title there gets you a download link. The article is based on a spring 2020 survey of 194 learned societies in the UK and Europe. One finding is that…

Contrary to previous research, most SSH societies in our study have not undergone significant changes in the past 5 years, challenging expectations of their declining role.

Chuck Jones has updated his list of Ancient World Open Access Journals that are active and open to submissions.