March 11, 2025
Back in January, I wrote about a surprising, and disappointing, sin of omission at the Charleston Hub’s Against the Grain podcast. I’m a fan of Charleston and its parent organization, Annual Reviews, for a slew of reasons (just one of which is the AR’s pioneering role...
March 8, 2025
On the edge of scholarly-publishing relevance, a new journal that I’ve been building with Jamie Cohen-Cole and Philippe Fontaine—History of Social Science—has launched its first issue. The journal is published for the Society for the History of Recent Social Science...
January 1, 2025
The Charleston Hub (with its storied history) is an important institution in the scholarly-publishing orbit. Its most visible project is the Charleston Conference, meeting since 1980 and an indispensable gathering for librarians and publishers. In 2023 the conference...
December 19, 2024
A heroic study, given the data-collection challenges, on public funding for OA journals in Europe: The study includes two separate components, collecting data separately for each European country (including transcontinental states): (1) the volume and key bibliometric...
December 18, 2024
From a new, important paper, just published in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship: […] in scholarly publishing, a small number of companies with market dominance have been able to capture and use the surplus value created through the publishing lifecycle....
