Librarian Rachel Caldwell, in a Scholarly Kitchen post from January: Many vendors supplying academic libraries with collections and other resources engage in practices that are not only markedly out of step with the values of libraries but also misaligned with the...
Scott Galloway, in a breezy TechCrunch interview last March about his VC-backed startup offering short-run “sprint” class with “superstar” profs: I’m not going to disclose the exact economic agreement. What I will say is that we see attracting...
Bo-Christer Björk, in his sharp if studiously neutral account of high journal costs, based on Michael Porter’s five forces framework, concludes on an upbeat: A promising new strategy is the signing of transformative license deals between national library...
A pair of revealing anecdotes from this Insights piece on a two-book OA collaboration between the University of Liverpool’s press and library. One of the authors (protected from shame as “Author B”) turned in a final manuscript 50,000 words over the...
I missed this when it launched back in June: The Sociological Review, the home for critical sociological thinking and research in the UK and internationally for the past 113 years, has today (8 June 2021) launched an ambitious open-access publishing platform aimed at...
