October 15, 2019
The Washington Post, in a story on prospective student tracking at U.S. colleges and universities: The admissions officer also received a link to a private profile of the student, listing all 27 pages she had viewed on the school’s website and how long she spent on...
October 7, 2019
Martin Eve, on a professional association's struggle to go OA: A Learned Society spoke to me last week about what they could do to move to an open-access model. They currently receive about 100,000 EUR per year from their subscription/hybrid-OA publisher but were...
October 3, 2019
Robert Harington, in a new Scholarly Kitchen post: The Plan S transformative agreements have essentially created institutional lock-in businesses on a grand scale. Only publishers who have significant publishing scale may effectively form transformative Publish and...
October 3, 2019
From the press release announcing a three-year, $850,000 grant to MIT Press from Arcadia: Amy Brand, director of the MIT Press and principal investigator for the grant, sees it as an opportunity to explore alternatives to the traditional market-based business model...
October 2, 2019
Roger Schonfeld, in a Scholarly Kitchen post on the emerging data sharing "business landscape": On July 17, Dryad and Zenodo, two leading generalist not-for-profit data repositories built on open source platforms, announced a partnership supported by the...
