May 29, 2020
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, in an [excellent, if downcast, *Boston Review* essay on the post-pandemic costs U.S. higher ed](http://bostonreview.net/forum/jeffrey-aaron-snyder-higher-education-age-coronavirus): > The coronavirus is taking a sledgehammer to higher education...
May 29, 2020
The late Jon Tennant, in [one among a flurry of writings](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9kjwp/) before his [tragic death](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/award-winning-31-year-old-4051426): > the lever here is having research funders helping...
May 28, 2020
Open Book Publishers' Lucy Barnes and Rupert Gatti, in a [remarkable post](https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-cost-of-open-access-books-a-publisher-writes/#costs) detailing their book-publishing costs: > [M]any of the conversations about the financial viability...
May 27, 2020
Ithaka's Roger Schonfeld and Oya Rieger, in a [Scholarly Kitchen post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/05/27/publishers-invest-in-preprints/) on the big publishers' move to "take back control of preprints": > Perhaps more significantly, however, they are...
May 26, 2020
The *Times*, to borrow former executive editor Howell Raines' favorite phrase, is flooding the zone with its coverage of higher ed's online future: 1. ["Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re...
