May 25, 2021
Chris Triggle and co-authors, in the closing paragraph of their excellent article on research metrics: Considering the wider publishing landscape, Brembs (2019) has argued for replacing the legacy journals completely, with peer-review and publishing infrastructure...
May 20, 2021
An important commentary from the Knowledge Futures Group leads responsible for PubPub and the Underlay, reacting to Clarivate's ProQuest acquisition: These days, Elsevier and other major publishing companies operate more like Clarivate, an analytics company that not...
May 13, 2021
From a sobering new post on SciDev.Net: [F]or many researchers in the developing world, who do not have a grant or an institution to cover the fees, the open access system can lock them out of top tier academic journals. Bonaventure Tetanye Ekoe, honorary dean of the...
May 12, 2021
From the superb, just-released COPIM report on collective funding models, which interviewed academic librarians: According to some of our respondents, the funds potentially available to support library membership programmes were also being squeezed by the rise of...
May 12, 2021
Emily Farrell, in a Scholarly Kitchen post: Monographs, by their nature as specialized texts, often see low usage. Scholarly publishers are aware that in order to support a diverse program of scholarship, it can be necessary to subsidize, in part, long-form works that...
