January 2, 2024
I have a post on FORCE11’s Upstream, on scholarly publishers’ in-progress play for prediction-product profit: The big publishers think they’re sitting on a gold mine. It’s not just their paywalled, full-text scholarship, but also the reams of other data they hoover up...
December 29, 2023
The latest installment of Clarke & Esposito’s The Brief newsletter is, as always, sharp and informative. The lead bit is on Google’s new Gemini, and its example AI academic search. Thanks to Google Scholar, Gemini can mine OA content at the article level, even in...
December 28, 2023
Sam Moore, concluding a thoughtful analysis of rights-retention policies in Europe an elsewhere: To be clear, very little of the negotiations around rights retention represents much more than liberal market economics—it should not be confused for the kind of political...
November 30, 2023
Roy Kaufman, CEO of the for-profit Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), posted excerpts from the company’s response to the US Copyright Office’s call for comments on AI training data. The Scholarly Kitchen post is fascinating and worthy of notice. It’s hardly surprising...
November 28, 2023
Speaking of APC revenue, Leigh-Ann Butler and colleagues have a great paper out in Quantitative Science Studies, on APC revenue from the big five commercial publishers (2015–2018): Revenue from gold OA amounted to $612.5 million, while $448.3 million was obtained for...
