October 28, 2024
Earlier this month the inestimable SPARC team released the second installment in its important report series on big-publisher extractivism: Today, SPARC released our second vendor privacy analysis: Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of...
October 18, 2024
Gary Hall, the relentlessly curious and provocative thinker, academic, and publisher, posted a thoughtful Mastodon thread on my recent essay for Culture Machine on “Before Progress. On the Power of Utopian Thinking for Open Access Publishing”—appearing in the...
October 14, 2024
I have revised and updated my “Large Language Publishing” Upstream essay from January, in a just-published article in KULA: The AI hype cycle has come for scholarly publishing. This essay argues that the industry’s feverishーif mostly aspirationalーembrace of artificial...
October 1, 2024
From the imitable Corey Doctorow, in a good, link-filled post on the scholarly publishing scam: It’s been four years since MIT’s decision to boycott Elsevier, and things are going great. The open access consortium SPARC just published a stocktaking of MIT libraries...
