November 15, 2025
I’m posting a short commentary here, a preprint under review at Yearbook on Data Autonomy (YoDA), a new OA journal from the University of Groningen Press. Download PDF In the last year, the giant AI companies have released tools with indistinguishable names: Deep...
May 29, 2025
Delta Think’s Dan Pollock and Heather Staines, with data on APC prices and inflation: Overall, OA prices are increasing below inflation. The data suggest that authors continue to get (modestly) increasing value for money for their OA fees. APCS, of course, have never...
May 28, 2025
I missed this excellent 2024 UKSG Insights piece, by Tasha Mellins-Cohen. In a studiously neutral, mapping-the-landscape fashion, Mellins-Cohen classifies the torrent of OA models into five core types. From the abstract (with the types in bold): The proliferation of...
April 2, 2025
Huge announcement from Open Library of Humanities (OLH) lead Caroline Edwards, writing for LSE Impact: According to Jisc’s own review of transitional agreements in the UK published in March 2024, “it would take at least 70 years for the big five publishers to flip...
March 29, 2025
Sue Curry Jansen and I, writing for Psyche, have a new essay out on the neglected philosopher Susanne Langer and metaphor: Metaphor, for Langer, is language’s law of growth. When there is no word available to express a new thought, we reach for analogy – for familiar...
