March 10, 2021
The most exciting aspect of MIT Press's Direct to Open OA book initiative is that library-participant fees are set, in part, according to ability to pay: To determine fees that allow the offer to reach the revenue target, the Press: Assessed the total universe of...
March 9, 2021
I finally got around to reading the forensic Chronicle account of turmoil at the anthropology journal HUA. The story, by Jesse Singal, is worth a read—it is an impressively thorough and fair-minded act of journalism. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the APC shows up in one of...
March 8, 2021
Here's an idea, premised on a pair of observations: (1) open access is now inevitable, at least for the journal literature; but in (2) an APC/read-and-publish package. There are lots of exceptions and byways, but the momentum—thanks in part to Plan S—is with an OA...
February 16, 2021
A Salesforce exec, in an October post hawking the company's software tools : In a matter of months, higher education institutions have had to reinvent themselves from physical hubs of learning to digital enablers of the student journey. And while no one knows exactly...
February 11, 2021
From PubPub, the MIT open source platform: The community is still working on the processes, workflows, standards, and values that will support this emergent form of publishing. But that shouldn’t stop anyone who wants to explore these models from starting now. With...
