Inside Higher Ed, on the latest blockbuster merger in for-profit higher-ed: Anthology, which emerged a year ago from the combination of three higher education administrative software firms, will merge with Blackboard, long the most visible company in learning...
From a press release announcing a $650 investment by Accel and Softbank in Indian higher-ed company Emeritus: In the last 12 months, Emeritus has grown rapidly around the globe with more than 100% year-on-year growth. The company is on track to realize more than $500...
Jon Treadway and Sarah Greaves, in their August Scholarly Kitchen post predicting more consolidation in scholarly publishing, doubt that scholarly societies will leave their commercial partners: [I]nitiatives like Plan S are having the reverse effect, magnifying the...
Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira, together with nine Latin American co-authors, in an important rejoinder to an open science (OS) manifesto penned by 37 communication scholars, mostly North American and European: The administrative approach, in general, focuses on the...
Ansh Bhatnagar, writing for Tribune, the revived magazine of the British left: Scientific knowledge doesn’t just need to be free to read – it needs to be owned and democratically controlled by the society it is meant to benefit. Publicly owned scientific publishing is...
