January 27, 2020
MIT Press's Amy Brand, in an October Scholarly Kitchn post marking Crossref's 20th anniversary: The visionary publishers who formed Crossref, and the staff who have run it from the start, should feel extremely proud of the organization they created – not least for its...
January 27, 2020
Justin Fox, in a Bloomberg column on the counter-intuitive OA bear-hug from the big commercial publishers, recounted the boasts from Wiley and its peers at a recent conference: A counterpart from Springer Nature, the No. 2 publisher, proudly reeled off the...
January 24, 2020
A second funding round announced by the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Service (SCOSS): Three Open Science infrastructure services have been vetted by SCOSS and selected for our second funding cycle: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and Open...
January 23, 2020
Robert Fried and Erik Kramer, in an Inside Higher Ed commentary: Small colleges continue to wither on the vine, cleaving to an outmoded model of a liberal education largely because their well-endowed elite college brethren burnish the same academic memes and rely on...
January 21, 2020
Elaine Graham-Leigh, on the steep cuts to the UK's SOAS: This is the predictable result of government withdrawal of block grant funding of universities, making them rely instead on fee income. This means that, just like any other business, they rely on their customers...
