November 27, 2023
The just-released U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) report on OA financing is definitely interesting—it’s far more in-depth in its scope than the last year’s Nelson Memo. References to cOAlition S, diamond OA, subscribe-to-open, and other...
November 17, 2023
A coda to Tuesday’s post on SPARC’s Elsevier report. Here’s Sam Biddle, writing for The Intercept on Elsevier corporate sibling LexisNexis Risk Solutions: The popular data broker LexisNexis began selling face recognition services and personal location data to U.S....
November 14, 2023
From SPARC North America’s overview of its important new report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect data tracking: By analyzing the privacy practices of the world’s largest publisher, the report describes how user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library...
November 2, 2023
On Tuesday—Halloween here in the US—cOAlition S released a new open access blueprint, one that, in effect, proposes to dismantle the prevailing journal system. Under an anodyne title (“Toward Responsible Publishing”), the group of (mostly) European state funders and...
