July 2, 2024
A fascinating idea and project from the estimable Public Knowledge Project (PKP): We are calling it a publication facts label (PFL). It is intended to appear with each research article [and] emulates the look and feel of the Nutrition Facts label on food products in...
June 26, 2024
Matt Wall on Medium, applying Cory Doctorow’s theory of enshittification to scholarly publishers: Here’s the thing though, the final part of Doctorow’s enshittification process as applied to online platforms is “then they die”. There currently seems to be little...
June 24, 2024
I missed this David Crotty post from the fall, on still-more concentration in scholarly publishing: Overall, the market has significantly consolidated since 2000 — when the top 5 publishers held 39% of the market of articles to 2022 where they control 61% of it....
June 21, 2024
Serge Horbach, Michael Ochsner, and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, in a Leiden Madtrics post, detail a vexing guest-editing role at a Frontiers journal, circa late 2022: Reviewers are selected by an internal artificial intelligence algorithm on the basis of keywords...
June 19, 2024
As if on cue, Open Future releases a new brief call for meaningful training data transparency: Transparency of the data used to train AI models is a prerequisite for understanding how these models work. It is crucial for improving accountability in AI development and...
