July 19, 2022
The Knowledge Futures Group's Gabe Stein, in a sharp analysis of the peculiar market dynamics of scholarly publishing: Because of this complexity, the academic publishing market imposes enormous social switching costs on its customers. For an individual researcher to...
July 8, 2022
Stanford's Robert Kaplan, arguing in [*Times Higher Education*](https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/lets-end-rocky-marriage-between-academia-and-commercial-publishers) for bringing academic publishing in-house [paywalled, alas], cites the author-excluding APC: >...
July 5, 2022
Iowa State's Curtis Brandy, in an [interview](https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/52/) on the [Opening the Future](https://www.openingthefuture.net) site: > Libraries have traditionally placed their scholarly communications and collections work in distinct...
July 4, 2022
I missed this [Ubiquity Press post from last April](https://blog.ubiquitypress.com/cc-by-a-somewcautionary-licensing-tale-127e407b3da5): > Until 2021, Ubiquity Press published all of our books under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) […] However, at the...
June 16, 2022
Colleen Flaherty, writing for Inside Higher Ed: Roland Hatzenpichler, assistant professor of environmental microbiology at Montana State University, said it’s been about a year since he started refusing to review for for-profit journals for free. In response to one...
