March 2, 2024
From Wiley’s press release announcing the sale of its online-program business to a one-time rival: Academic Partnerships (AP), a company that assists primarily regional public universities in expanding access and impact by supporting their online programs, today...
February 24, 2024
Greg Cram and Kathleen Riegelhaupt, on the New York Public Library’s Scholarly Press Backlist Revival Project, which seeks to pry backlist books from out-of-print inaccessibility: Since 2022, we have worked to develop a proof of concept in partnership with the...
February 21, 2024
Justin Weinberg, writing for the Daily Nous: Political Philosophy is born from the ashes of The Journal of Political Philosophy (JPP). It has some similarities with its predecessor—you’ll recognize its editors and editorial board—but also some differences. For...
February 20, 2024
Dahl Shaulis, writing for Higher Education Inquirer about 2U’s in-progress implosion: 2U, a Lanham, Maryland-based edtech company and parent company edX, is facing layoffs of an estimated 200 to 400 workers--a significant number for a company that only employs a few...
January 4, 2024
Speaking of AI, here’s Lorcan Dempsey, proposing to group Elsevier, Digital Science and Clarivate as “scholarly communication service providers”: In our space, it will be especially interesting to watch what I call the scholarly communication service providers,...
