‘Publication as Curation’

eLife head Michael Eisen and his colleagues, [announcing its 'publish, then review' model](https://elifesciences.org/articles/64910): > The growing popularity of preprints has enabled researchers to make their papers freely and immediately available to anyone with an...

The Novel CEU Press OA Transition Model

Speaking of [COPIM](https://www.copim.ac.uk), here's Martin Eve on a [novel OA model that Central European University Press (CEUP) is piloting](https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/wp-3-working-to-transition-central-european-university-press-to-open-access/release/1): > CEUP...

‘A Tricky Balancing Act’

Joe Deville, [writing for the COPIM team on working with academic libraries](https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/sketching-a-direction-of-travel-an-update-from-wp-2/release/3): > What this means for us as a project, however, is that our answer to the question ‘how can open...

‘2020 with OABN’

Lucy Barnes, Tom Mosterd, and Agata Morka, on the recently established [Open Access Books Network (OABN)](https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2020/12/17/2020-with-oabn/): > We have come a long way from what started as a post-conference conversation in a bar in...

‘All of these research conferences are heavily funded by industry’

Timnit Gebru, in a [VentureBeat interview](https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/10/timnit-gebru-googles-dehumanizing-memo-paints-me-as-an-angry-black-woman/): > A lot of people have been talking about that. All of these research conferences are [heavily funded by...