May 7, 2021
The indisensable OA observer Richard Poynder dropped another hefty ebook (163 pages!), Information Wants To Be Free, in December. From Poynder's post introducing the book: While what I say might be slightly overweight in European developments, it may not matter if (as...
May 3, 2021
From the press release announcing the exciting merger of Open Library of Humanities and Birkbeck College: The OLH is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher (articles are freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication) with no...
April 30, 2021
Ashley Jester, in a must-read in Commonplace: When a deal is struck that covers some or all of the APCs, that deal explicitly validates the idea that APCs are an appropriate part of the open access ecosystem. You are no longer arguing about whether or not individual...
April 22, 2021
Speaking of read-and-publish, here are my quoted thoughts at the end of Inside Higher Ed piece on the big Cambridge deal: One of the primary concerns about read-and-publish deals is that in the long term, the “barriers currently imposed on readers will be erected for...
April 22, 2021
Jennifer Frederick and the Ithaka S+R team, reporting on library budget cuts on The Scholarly Kitchen back in December: With so many US academic libraries facing cuts, some might be tempted to assume that the sector is bottoming out and will soon recover. To the...
