January 27, 2021
The kind folks at the Open Access Books Network invited me to speak at one of their BoOkmArks conversations about the fledgling OA press I founded, mediastudies.press. They've since posted the video recording.
January 25, 2021
Joseph Esposito and Michael Clarke, in a November Scholarly Kitchen post on PLOS's new Communication Action Publishing (CAP) funding scheme: It is our constant refrain to society publishers, among many not-for-profit organizations, that despite their IRS status, they...
January 22, 2021
Montana State librarian Leila Sterman, on switching to Shareyourpaper.org for repository processing: While we haven’t perfected all of our internal processes yet, the introduction of Shareyourpaper into our workflow has decreased the time spent sending out article...
January 21, 2021
Grigori Guitchounts, [writing last week for *Undark*](https://undark.org/2021/01/14/big-science-publisher-is-going-open-access/) on the [usurious *Nature* APC](https://www.nature.com/nature/about/our-publishing-models): > Only the wealthiest universities in the...
January 20, 2021
From Joseph Esposito's [Scholarly Kitchen post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/10/05/the-360-competitor/) on the trade book industry, back in October: > It is a remarkable fact that publishers have succeeded over the past two decades in reaping 100% of the...
January 19, 2021
eLife's Paul Shannon, in an [interview with Scholastica on its new Sciety service](https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/connecting-preprints-reviews-sciety/): > So we started to develop features where you could see content in a Twitter-like feed and then follow...
January 15, 2021
With a [hat tip](https://poynder.blogspot.com/2013/10/lets-be-open-about-open-access.html) to the indispensable [Richard Poynder](https://richardpoynder.co.uk/about.html), here is a quick follow up to [yesterday's post on Knowledge Unlatched's latest...
January 14, 2021
Pablo Markin, in a [recent post](https://openresearch.community/posts/the-open-research-community-in-2020-a-year-in-review) touting the [Open Research Community](https://openresearch.community)'s 2020 reach: > In the course of 2020, 153 posts and 151 documents have...
January 13, 2021
This [big *Times* story on Indiana University of Pennsylvania](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/us/college-coronavirus-tuition.html) buries the lede. The 41st paragraph: > When the 2008 recession hit, many states decimated the budgets for regional campuses of state...
January 11, 2021
Wiley's Judy Verses, in [a Scholarly Kitchen interview](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/01/11/wiley-acquires-hindawi-interview/) on the firm's [acquisition of OA publisher...
December 30, 2020
eLife head Michael Eisen and his colleagues, announcing its 'publish, then review' model: The growing popularity of preprints has enabled researchers to make their papers freely and immediately available to anyone with an internet connection. Many eLife authors were...
December 29, 2020
Speaking of COPIM, here's Martin Eve on a novel OA model that Central European University Press (CEUP) is piloting: CEUP is creating a sustainable OA publishing model that will give members access to a selection of the extensive backlist, DRM-free and with perpetual...
December 28, 2020
Joe Deville, writing for the COPIM team on working with academic libraries: What this means for us as a project, however, is that our answer to the question ‘how can open access books be better integrated into libraries?’ has to perform a tricky balancing act. On the...
December 17, 2020
Lucy Barnes, Tom Mosterd, and Agata Morka, on the recently established Open Access Books Network (OABN): We have come a long way from what started as a post-conference conversation in a bar in Marseille back in the summer of 2019, where the idea of creating a network...
December 11, 2020
Timnit Gebru, in a VentureBeat interview: A lot of people have been talking about that. All of these research conferences are heavily funded by industry, so right now what is computer science research? It’s like you’ve got the military and you’ve got corporations....
December 9, 2020
Another Catholic shoe to drop: As part of a multi-year financial plan for the College’s long-term financial sustainability, the Saint Rose Board of Trustees has approved a plan to reduce academic expenses by $5.97 million, including the closure of 16 unique bachelor’s...
December 4, 2020
University of Vermont Dean of Arts and Sciences, quoted in Inside Higher Ed to justify the elimination of 12 "low-enrollment" majors: “This decision has been extremely difficult [...] It has been informed by data and guided by a strategy to focus on the...
December 1, 2020
Speaking of "program prioritization," this piece on rough college finances in today's Chronicle features University of Scranton president Edward Steinmetz: “If it’s a $12-million hit, that’s huge,” he says. “We’ve had negative variances in the past, but...
December 1, 2020
Elizabeth Redden, writing for Inside Higher Ed: An alliance of faculty, staff and graduate student unions; American Association of University Professor chapters; and student organizations has come together to support a new petition opposing “the rash of...
December 1, 2020
Dummy Verbeke, writing on behalf of the KU Leuven Libraries, on the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA: The fund is exclusively devoted to the support of non-profit and community-owned initiatives in the field of Open Access and Open Scholarship in general. It is not a...
