December 19, 2024
A heroic study, given the data-collection challenges, on public funding for OA journals in Europe: The study includes two separate components, collecting data separately for each European country (including transcontinental states): (1) the volume and key bibliometric...
December 18, 2024
From a new, important paper, just published in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship: […] in scholarly publishing, a small number of companies with market dominance have been able to capture and use the surplus value created through the publishing lifecycle....
December 9, 2024
Christian Boomsma, in a nice piece on Elsevier’s data extractivism: When UG philosopher Titus Stahl is mulling over a new research topic, he has a range of tools available to help him get started. He could use academic search engine Scopus, for example, to point him...
