June 11, 2020
[Huge news](https://news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611) from [MIT Libraries](by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611): > Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to...
June 11, 2020
A consortium of [11 nonprofits and universities](https://operas.hypotheses.org/4141)—mostly European—was [selected](https://operas.hypotheses.org/41410) by [cOAlition S](https://www.coalition-s.org) to conduct a major study on no-fee, "diamond" open access publishing...
June 6, 2020
Rebecca Kolins Givan, in a [*Chronicle* commentary](https://www.chronicle.com/article/Will-the-University-That/248902): > If our core values are sacrificed to save our universities through a single-minded focus on maximizing revenue, will the institutions that emerge...
June 5, 2020
DARIAH's Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, [urging scholars to shun the VC-backed for-profit sites Academia.edu and ResearchGate](https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/878): > What we need to realize is that ‘the “everybody” factor’ (as Kathleen Fitzpatrick calls it) that makes...
June 5, 2020
Claire Potter, in a [*Times* op-ed on rethinking U.S. higher ed for the post-pandemic era](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/sunday/free-college-tuition-coronavirus.html): > So what must change? To start, public colleges and universities should be truly...
June 4, 2020
Simon Torracinta, [writing for n+1 on the impending carnage in U.S. higher ed](https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/extinction-event/): > The tsunami wave of the pandemic—genuine threats to the life of staff and students, skittish financial markets, massive...
June 4, 2020
A [chilling, backstage read](https://agb.org/trusteeship-article/college-at-a-crossroads-closures-and-mergers/) from [*Trusteeship*](https://agb.org/trusteeship-magazine/), a magazine for university and college trustees: > Sometimes even when an institution is not in...
June 4, 2020
Heather Morrison, on the for-profit OA publishing group [Frontiers](https://www.frontiersin.org)' [mid-crisis price hikes](https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2020/06/03/frontiers-2020-a-third-of-journals-increase-prices-by-45-times-the-inflation-rate/): > A third...
June 2, 2020
Trevor Parry-Giles, in a [Scholarly Kitchen guest post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/06/02/guest-post-building-resilient-learned-societies-in-an-age-of-pandemic-and-fear/) on learned societies in the age of coronavirus: > For the new normalcy to be truly...
June 2, 2020
Mark Bilby, in a [powerful post](https://calschol.com/2020/06/02/a-second-call-to-solidarity-with-the-national-emergency-library-time-for-a-boycott/) on the [publisher lawsuit against the Internet...
June 1, 2020
From the OASPA's [update on its OA Switchboard project](https://oaspa.org/oa-switchboard-initiative-progress-report-may-2020/): > [T]he OA Switchboard will be developed with immediate business value: Enabling all publishers to locate central OA funds, and to get...
May 29, 2020
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, in an [excellent, if downcast, *Boston Review* essay on the post-pandemic costs U.S. higher ed](http://bostonreview.net/forum/jeffrey-aaron-snyder-higher-education-age-coronavirus): > The coronavirus is taking a sledgehammer to higher education...
May 29, 2020
The late Jon Tennant, in [one among a flurry of writings](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9kjwp/) before his [tragic death](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/award-winning-31-year-old-4051426): > the lever here is having research funders helping...
May 28, 2020
Open Book Publishers' Lucy Barnes and Rupert Gatti, in a [remarkable post](https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-cost-of-open-access-books-a-publisher-writes/#costs) detailing their book-publishing costs: > [M]any of the conversations about the financial viability...
May 27, 2020
Ithaka's Roger Schonfeld and Oya Rieger, in a [Scholarly Kitchen post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/05/27/publishers-invest-in-preprints/) on the big publishers' move to "take back control of preprints": > Perhaps more significantly, however, they are...
May 26, 2020
The *Times*, to borrow former executive editor Howell Raines' favorite phrase, is flooding the zone with its coverage of higher ed's online future: 1. ["Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re...
May 25, 2020
Speaking of [Punctum](https://punctumbooks.com), the scholar-led press is now listing some of [its books on JSTOR](https://www.jstor.org/publisher/punctumbks)—an exciting new mode to distribute small-press OA titles.
May 25, 2020
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, [on Punctum's transition to open source software throughout its workflows](https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/transitioning-punctum-books-to-open-source-infrastructure/release/3): > *Yes*, there are open source solutions out there. > >...
May 22, 2020
Julie MacLeavy, Richard Harris, and Ron Johnston [writing in *Geoforum*](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718519303483): > open access to knowledge will not be not achieved, nor the inequalities in the production and reproduction of knowledge...
May 20, 2020
Eduardo Aguado López and Arianna Becerril García, in a [new LSE Impact post on Plan...
