From my just-published Elephant in the Lab piece: Siphoning taxpayer, tuition, and endowment dollars to access our own behavior is a financial and moral indignity. That we are paying the sellers a second time, after budget-draining subscription and APC outlays, is a...
Alberto Pepe, Matteo Cantiello, and Josh Nicholson, in their arXiv paper calling on arXiv to overhaul itself: Disclaimer: This article has originally been written and posted on Authorea, a collaborative online platform for technical and data-driven documents. Authorea...
The Knowledge Futures Group’s Gabe Stein, writing about the head-scratching hurdles faced by KFG in its effort to secure financial support from libraries: If we were selling to for-profit corporations we’d mostly be able say “enter your credit card info here”...
David Beer, in his love letter to the academic book review: Rather than being at the centre of disciplines, they are seen to be something of a luxury: an indulgent misuse of time spent reading, cover to cover, and then writing something that does not have any...
