June 15, 2020
Chloe Reid, in an LSE Review of Books review of Caitlin Zaloom’s Indebted: For these families, their lives are organised around the problem of paying for college. […] This preparation begins at a young age, with the parents of a two-year-old spending...
June 15, 2020
From Logic’s May interview with Alison Macrina: Q:With both Tor and the Library Freedom Project, you’re making libraries places that are anti-capitalist not just because they’re free, but also because data harvesting won’t work in there....
June 11, 2020
Huge news from MIT Libraries: Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. MIT cited its unique Framework for Publisher Contracts in the decision to cancel...
June 11, 2020
A consortium of 11 nonprofits and universities—mostly European—was selected by cOAlition S to conduct a major study on no-fee, “diamond” open access publishing models—i.e., the only OA model that’s actually open to most of the world’s scholars....
June 6, 2020
Rebecca Kolins Givan, in a Chronicle commentary: If our core values are sacrificed to save our universities through a single-minded focus on maximizing revenue, will the institutions that emerge have been worth saving? Kolins Givan takes aim at responsibility-centered...
