May 19, 2020
From Lisa Hinchliffe's [Scholarly Kitchen's Q & A](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/05/19/taking-a-big-bite-out-of-the-big-deal/) with the co-founders of [Unsub](https://get-unsub.org/): > [Unsub](https://get-unsub.org/) is a tool that helps librarians analyze...
May 18, 2020
[*Science*](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/open-access-science-funders-announce-price-transparency-rules-publishers), many paragraphs into its story on the updated Plan S "transparency" rules: > The pricing data will be shared with funders and research...
May 17, 2020
Liz Morrish, on the [politics and symbolism of professorial Zoom backgrounds](https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/background-as-foreground/): > Unsurprisingly, most universities will recommend that academics should be seated in front of a...
May 8, 2020
The incomparable Corey Robin, [writing for *The New Yorker*](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-pandemic-is-the-time-to-resurrect-the-public-university): > In academia, as in the rest of society, a combination of public and private actors directs...
May 6, 2020
From [last month's paper/call to action on "biblio diversity"](https://zenodo.org/record/3752923#.XrK-ZS1q2fA), co-authored by Kathleen Shearer, Leslie Chan, Iryna Kuchma, and Pierre Mounier: > The larger the decline, the more difficult it will be to reconstitute...
April 21, 2020
Heather Staines, writing for the [Knowledge Futures Group](https://www.knowledgefutures.org)'s new [*Commonplace*](https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org) publication, in a [post on scholarly infrastructure](https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/2jqlvmkp): >...
April 13, 2020
The fight for open scholarship suffered a major loss Thursday, with the [tragic death](https://medium.com/@IGDORE/announcing-the-passing-of-our-dear-colleague-dr-jon-p-tennant-f0f10015b274) of [Jon Tennant](http://fossilsandshit.com/). Tennant had an almost [manically...
April 8, 2020
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, in a keynote address [repurposed as a Scholarly Kitchen post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/04/07/seeking-sustainability-publishing-models-for-an-open-access-age/): > From the library perspective, The Big Deal is typically seen as...
April 7, 2020
MIT's [Knowledge Futures Group](https://www.knowledgefutures.org)—the team behind [PubPub](https://www.pubpub.org)—is launching a new publication the [*Commonplace*](https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/about): > The *Commonplace* will bring together...
April 6, 2020
Roger Schonfeld and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, [in a Scholarly Kitchen post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/04/06/academic-libraries-pivotal-moment/) on the latest Ithaka S+R [library...
April 1, 2020
The nascent [COPIM project](https://www.copim.ac.uk/) (the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructure for Monographs)—[funded by Research England](https://re.ukri.org/news-opinions-events/news/re-awards-2-2m-to-project-to-improve-open-access-publishing/)—has been...
March 30, 2020
[Nice post by Liz Morrish](https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/in-which-we-serve-universities-in-lockdown/) on the UK university's pandemic coping: > When universities do gear up for the new academic year, whether that should be in September or...
March 30, 2020
Michael Schulson, [in an well-reported overview of the commercial capture of OA on *Undark*](https://undark.org/2020/03/30/science-publishing-open-acess/): > Instead of an open-access commons run by scholars in the public interest, the new open-access revolution...
March 13, 2020
Katherine Skinner and Sarah Wipperman, in a [new Educopia Institute report on values/principles statements in scholarly communication](https://educopia.org/principles_values_wp/): > ... [t]woday’s institutional reward structures, coupled with dominant publishing...
March 9, 2020
Speaking of [subscribe-to-open](https://www.jeffpooley.com/2020/03/the-simplest-of-models-for-open-access-to-research-proves-itself-welcome-to-subscribe-to-open/): Lisa Hinchliffe, [in a Scholarly Kitchen...
March 6, 2020
From the [monster paper](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2kxq8/) that Jon Tennant and an army of co-authors just posted to [SocArXiv](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2kxq8/): > We believe that there is substantial need for research funders to invest in sustainable...
March 5, 2020
From February, [*MIT Technology Review*'s deeply reported piece on OpenAI](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615181/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/): > For the leadership, the results of these experiments have confirmed...
March 4, 2020
John Willinsky, [on the successful Berghahn Books pilot of subscribe-to-open](http://www.slaw.ca/2020/03/04/the-simplest-of-models-for-open-access-to-research-proves-itself-welcome-to-subscribe-to-open/): > what if libraries agreed to continue paying the subscription...
March 4, 2020
[Björn Brembs is at it again](http://bjoern.brembs.net/2020/03/the-ultimate-open-access-timeline/). Cheeky and apt.
March 4, 2020
A lovely thought, [this column in the *Los Angeles Times*](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-03/covid-19-open-science) pegged to the science sharing around the coronavirus: > The prevailing model today is dominated by for-profit academic publishing houses...
