September 4, 2023
Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Silicon Valley for-profit Coursera, on the Coursera blog: The job market is changing rapidly, and to meet new employer and student demands, universities must also evolve. Today, I’m excited to announce that Coursera and the University of...
August 28, 2023
Philip Cohen, on his blog, addressing the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) shameful obstructionism on open access: Alondra Nelson has had a storied career in American social science. After joining the Yale sociology faculty in 2009, she wrote, among many...
August 17, 2023
Speaking of the MIT Press, sometime in mid-April the press’s OA books began including a full-book, single-button download.1 Finally! As I and others have complained, the chapter-by-chapter download mode used by JSTOR, Project MUSE, and a number of OA publishers (MIT...
August 17, 2023
An excellent Chronicle piece [paywalled, alas] from Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths Press) and Amy Brand (the MIT Press), on the slate of well-intentioned OA policies from the U.S., Europe, and Britain: As the heads of progressive university presses on two sides of the North...
August 15, 2023
Martin Eve: For me, the fundamental meta-principle, or ideal, that underpins POSI (the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure) is forkability and persistence. Taken on aggregate and implemented, an organization that signs up for POSI should be duplicable. That...
