Murray State University’s A.J. Boston, writing in C&RL News on so-called “transformative agreements” (TAs, aka read-and-publish deals): On balance, any upsides that TAs may present are negated by the normalization of paying-to-publish, posing huge problems for...
Smart piece by Christopher Kelty: What is even weirder, and harder to explain, is that the internet we do have was caused by the internet we could have had. Elements of the figuration of that internet we could have had turned out to be motors of political domination....
Reggie Raju and Auliya Badrudeen, writing for 360ino on “transformative” [sic] read-and-publish deals: The nation-wide agreements, conceived in the Global North, have shifted the prejudice from reading to publishing: communities can now read the research but cannot...
Forbes: OpenAI—the artificial intelligence company behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot program—is in discussions to sell shares valuing the firm at $29 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, after the launch of ChatGPT was lauded by many as a revolutionary...
Librarian Aaron Tay, writing on Medium about the potential benefits of OA for machine learning–based projects: one other benefit that tends to be overlooked, or at least seldom mentioned in my experience particularly by librarians, is how in an Open Access World, we...
