August 27, 2024
From the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) recently released Contracts in Publishing: A Toolkit for Authors and Publishers: Academic and scientific publishing is mainly concerned with the production and distribution of works of scholarly research...
August 12, 2024
A good piece from the AAUP’s Academe on the encroachment of corporate software (like so-called “learning management systems” (LMSs)): While commercialization of data, including user-generated content and intellectual property, occurs behind the scenes unregulated,...
August 6, 2024
From a short piece I recently published in the European media studies journal NECSUS: The real question is political will. If the scholarly publishing system is hurtling toward open access, who will pay for it? There are two choices, in effect: authors or direct...
