Concerns about Self-Archiving in the Open Humanities

An interesting, rarely surfaced point, in a [reflection post](https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/) from the University of Cambridge's working group on open research in the humanities, on the drawbacks of the "green," accepted-manuscript repository route to...

Must-Read Paper on Shady OPM Deals

From June: A jaw-dropping paper, based on FOIA documents, that tracks the foundation-boring grip that for-profit Online Program Management (OPM) firms like 2U have on public universities. The authors combed through hundreds of private contracts, documenting widespread...

Preprints as a Language-Editing Funnel

Preprint platform Research Square exists to drive business to English-language editing factory American Journal Experts (AJE), which launched the platform in 2018. Preprint authors receive a Language Quality Score, and are then shilled to spend hundreds of dollars on...

‘PubPub’s Plan to Support Self-Hosting’

Speaking of the Knowledge Futures Group's Gabe Stein, here's the key excerpt from his recent post outlining the KFG's plans for PubPub self-hosting: We’re planning to support both centralized and self-hosted versions within our existing nonprofit by slowly building...