April 9, 2021
Mahdi Khelfaoui and Yves Gingras, in a recent Journal of Scholarly Publishing article [paywalled, sadly]: In this article, we analyse a relatively recent commercial strategy used by large academic publishers to capitalize on the brand names of their most prestigious...
April 4, 2021
Peter McMahan and Daniel McFarland, in a just-published American Sociological Review article: By curating the published research in an area, [literature] reviews highlight certain connections between publications while obscuring others, dramatically simplifying a...
March 31, 2021
From the Medium post announcing that scite has struck a deal with Wiley to embed its contextual citation snippets (dubbed, inevitably, Smart Citations) into over a hundred Wiley journals: Smart Citations display the context of each citation to a publication, allowing...
March 20, 2021
From the annual report of MDPI, the Swiss-based for-profit OA bohemoth: 165.2K peer-reviewed manuscripts published online, an increase of 55.6% in comparison to the previous year; 50 new journals launched, and 13 journals transferred to MDPI; 35 days used from...
March 17, 2021
MIT Libraries' Chris Bourg, quoted in an Inside Higher Ed story on the UC-Elsevier deal: “If pay-to-publish models (whether multi- or single-payer) become the new norm, they will inevitably lead to a system where the work of scholars from less-privileged institutions...
