January 30, 2020
Bradley Metrock, writing on the Digital Book World blog: It is our absolute privilege to ban all Macmillan employees from attending or speaking at Digital Book World until the company's library embargo is lifted and they fully comply with the requests of the American...
January 30, 2020
Inside Higher Ed: Two Democrats in the U.S. Senate have asked five companies that help colleges and universities manage their online academic programs for information about their contracts and relationships with the institutions. [...] The letters, which went to chief...
January 29, 2020
Interesting interview with the co-founder of scite, an AI software that judges scholarly citations as supporting, contradicting, or mentioning. The scite co-founder used the "citation context" language, an echo of Henry Small's classic elaboration of...
January 29, 2020
Roger Schonfeld, writing in a collective Scholarly Kitchen reflection post on the recent Academic Publishing in Europe conference: [T]he presentation that will be most lasting came from EU open access envoy Jean-Claude Burgelman. He spoke in deeply competitive terms...
January 28, 2020
Inside Higher Ed: The number of independent skills boot camps continued to shrink Monday, when the online learning company K12 announced that it would purchase Galvanize, one of the largest and more successful of the newfangled organizations focused on developing...
