January 16, 2023
Reggie Raju and Auliya Badrudeen, writing for 360ino on “transformative” [sic] read-and-publish deals: The nation-wide agreements, conceived in the Global North, have shifted the prejudice from reading to publishing: communities can now read the research but cannot...
January 6, 2023
Forbes: OpenAI—the artificial intelligence company behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot program—is in discussions to sell shares valuing the firm at $29 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, after the launch of ChatGPT was lauded by many as a revolutionary...
January 5, 2023
Librarian Aaron Tay, [writing on Medium](https://medium.com/a-academic-librarians-thoughts-on-open-access/are-we-undervaluing-open-access-by-not-correctly-evaluating-the-potentially-huge-impacts-of-e93af1de9414) about the potential benefits of OA for machine...
January 3, 2023
Marcel Hobma, [writing in the *Journal of Trial and Error*](https://blog.trialanderror.org/not-all-that-shines-is-diamond) on the APC scourge: > There is evidence that article processing costs give older, more resourceful male researchers and prestigious institutions...
December 26, 2022
Steven Mintz, writing for Inside Higher Ed on selfish colleagues in the humanities: [I]f I were to point to a single factor that is most consequential, I’d draw attention to a dramatic shift in humanists’ professional identity. For better and worse, many and perhaps...
