December 16, 2025
An incredible interactive visual map from the Open Book Futures team, on the OA Books landscape: This is the result of a visual mapping exercise conducted with the stakeholders contributing to the Open Book Futures project, held on Oct 10, 2023 in The Hague and...
December 10, 2025
I want to share a short commentary I just published, on “The Modal Mode of Thinking about Scholarly Publishing,” as part of the Journal of Electronic Publishing’s 30th anniversary special issue (edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema). Here’s the abstract from...
December 4, 2025
Speaking of ‘publish or perish’: Kelly-Ann Allen, writing in Nature earlier this year (paywalled, alas): In my view, we could make academic life more rewarding by systematically scoring the underappreciated behaviours and conduct that researchers value. The product...
