July 27, 2022
From June: A jaw-dropping paper, based on FOIA documents, that tracks the foundation-boring grip that for-profit Online Program Management (OPM) firms like 2U have on public universities. The authors combed through hundreds of private contracts, documenting widespread...
July 26, 2022
Preprint platform Research Square exists to drive business to English-language editing factory American Journal Experts (AJE), which launched the platform in 2018. Preprint authors receive a Language Quality Score, and are then shilled to spend hundreds of dollars on...
July 22, 2022
Michael Vasquez, writing for The Chronicle [paywalled] a few weeks ago: When a pair of professors stepped down from their posts at Arcadia University this year, without another job lined up, they did so to halt the creation of a physician-assistant program in...
July 21, 2022
Speaking of the Knowledge Futures Group's Gabe Stein, here's the key excerpt from his recent post outlining the KFG's plans for PubPub self-hosting: We’re planning to support both centralized and self-hosted versions within our existing nonprofit by slowly building...
July 19, 2022
The Knowledge Futures Group's Gabe Stein, in a sharp analysis of the peculiar market dynamics of scholarly publishing: Because of this complexity, the academic publishing market imposes enormous social switching costs on its customers. For an individual researcher to...
