March 31, 2021
From the Medium post announcing that scite has struck a deal with Wiley to embed its contextual citation snippets (dubbed, inevitably, Smart Citations) into over a hundred Wiley journals: Smart Citations display the context of each citation to a publication, allowing...
March 20, 2021
From the annual report of MDPI, the Swiss-based for-profit OA bohemoth: 165.2K peer-reviewed manuscripts published online, an increase of 55.6% in comparison to the previous year; 50 new journals launched, and 13 journals transferred to MDPI; 35 days used from...
March 17, 2021
MIT Libraries’ Chris Bourg, quoted in an Inside Higher Ed story on the UC-Elsevier deal: “If pay-to-publish models (whether multi- or single-payer) become the new norm, they will inevitably lead to a system where the work of scholars from less-privileged...
March 10, 2021
The most exciting aspect of MIT Press’s Direct to Open OA book initiative is that library-participant fees are set, in part, according to ability to pay: To determine fees that allow the offer to reach the revenue target, the Press: Assessed the total universe...
March 9, 2021
I finally got around to reading the forensic Chronicle account of turmoil at the anthropology journal HUA. The story, by Jesse Singal, is worth a read—it is an impressively thorough and fair-minded act of journalism. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the APC shows up in one of...
