July 27, 2020
A modest proposal: Given Coalition S’s recent Rights Retention announcement, what about embracing Elsevier’s cynical invention of the “mirror” journal concept? Recall that Elsevier has, in a stroke of evil genius, created over 40...
July 26, 2020
Daisuke Wakabayashi, writing for The New York Times, buries the lede in his story about big tech’s funding of soft-gloves antitrust education: The long era of restraint in antitrust enforcement in the United States can be traced back, in part, to an ideology...
July 18, 2020
Kate Clark, writing for The Information [paywalled], reports on the major haul that Coursera, the for-profit higher-ed purveyor, received in a new VC round—valuing the company at about $2.5 billion. The pandemic has, of course, been wind to Coursera’s fire—a...
July 17, 2020
From Nature’s story on the Plan S “Rights Retention” announcement: “Very few” publishers allow the combination of both CC-BY and zero-embargo sharing of AAMs, says Bianca Kramer, a librarian at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Publishers often...
July 14, 2020
From a Wired story on so-called income share agreements: ONE DAY IN 2017, Lauren Neuwirth sank into a chair in her university’s financial aid office feeling out of options. She was finishing her second year at Purdue University in Indiana, a school she’d chosen for...
