December 30, 2020
eLife head Michael Eisen and his colleagues, announcing its 'publish, then review' model: The growing popularity of preprints has enabled researchers to make their papers freely and immediately available to anyone with an internet connection. Many eLife authors were...
December 29, 2020
Speaking of COPIM, here's Martin Eve on a novel OA model that Central European University Press (CEUP) is piloting: CEUP is creating a sustainable OA publishing model that will give members access to a selection of the extensive backlist, DRM-free and with perpetual...
December 28, 2020
Joe Deville, writing for the COPIM team on working with academic libraries: What this means for us as a project, however, is that our answer to the question ‘how can open access books be better integrated into libraries?’ has to perform a tricky balancing act. On the...
December 17, 2020
Lucy Barnes, Tom Mosterd, and Agata Morka, on the recently established Open Access Books Network (OABN): We have come a long way from what started as a post-conference conversation in a bar in Marseille back in the summer of 2019, where the idea of creating a network...
December 11, 2020
Timnit Gebru, in a VentureBeat interview: A lot of people have been talking about that. All of these research conferences are heavily funded by industry, so right now what is computer science research? It’s like you’ve got the military and you’ve got corporations....
