Rebecca Bryant, Charles Watkinson, and Rebecca Welzenbach, writing for the Scholarly Kitchen on a science-humanities gap in metadata retrieval: The ability to harvest accurate and mostly complete metadata for researchers in STEM disciplines is quite good in all of...
Brilliant paper by Alexander Gross and Björn Brembs, last revised in July: The affordability problem of scholarly publishing, i.e., the supra-inflationary price increases with stagnating library budgets, has been a hot topic for more than three decades. In recent...
From a March press release announcing the “EnableOA” publishing platform: The Amnet and Coko Foundation partnership has paved the way for EnableOA: an open access publishing platform for the scholarly community. It is a comprehensive framework with a slew...
Jeffrey R. Young, writing for EdSurge: A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. It’s solution: Create a new...
From the Open Library of humanities blog: We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities is now open to expressions of interest from subscription journals in the humanities seeking to move to a gold open access (OA) publishing model without...
