January 29, 2021
From the UK-based open monograph project COPIM: Available on Github at https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/otf-signup, features of the system include order tracking, billing management, notification of new sign ups, and access control for backlist packages of books. The...
January 28, 2021
Sam Moore, in a LSE Impact post on research and the commons: Simply put, policymakers should reorient their focus away from mere open access to the outputs of scientific research and instead nurture the commons across the research lifecycle. It would mean less of a...
January 27, 2021
The kind folks at the Open Access Books Network invited me to speak at one of their BoOkmArks conversations about the fledgling OA press I founded, mediastudies.press. They've since posted the video recording.
January 25, 2021
Joseph Esposito and Michael Clarke, in a November Scholarly Kitchen post on PLOS's new Communication Action Publishing (CAP) funding scheme: It is our constant refrain to society publishers, among many not-for-profit organizations, that despite their IRS status, they...
January 22, 2021
Montana State librarian Leila Sterman, on switching to Shareyourpaper.org for repository processing: While we haven’t perfected all of our internal processes yet, the introduction of Shareyourpaper into our workflow has decreased the time spent sending out article...
