January 29, 2020
Roger Schonfeld, writing in a collective Scholarly Kitchen reflection post on the recent Academic Publishing in Europe conference: [T]he presentation that will be most lasting came from EU open access envoy Jean-Claude Burgelman. He spoke in deeply competitive terms...
January 28, 2020
Inside Higher Ed: The number of independent skills boot camps continued to shrink Monday, when the online learning company K12 announced that it would purchase Galvanize, one of the largest and more successful of the newfangled organizations focused on developing...
January 27, 2020
MIT Press's Amy Brand, in an October Scholarly Kitchn post marking Crossref's 20th anniversary: The visionary publishers who formed Crossref, and the staff who have run it from the start, should feel extremely proud of the organization they created – not least for its...
January 27, 2020
Justin Fox, in a Bloomberg column on the counter-intuitive OA bear-hug from the big commercial publishers, recounted the boasts from Wiley and its peers at a recent conference: A counterpart from Springer Nature, the No. 2 publisher, proudly reeled off the...
January 24, 2020
A second funding round announced by the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Service (SCOSS): Three Open Science infrastructure services have been vetted by SCOSS and selected for our second funding cycle: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and Open...
January 23, 2020
Robert Fried and Erik Kramer, in an Inside Higher Ed commentary: Small colleges continue to wither on the vine, cleaving to an outmoded model of a liberal education largely because their well-endowed elite college brethren burnish the same academic memes and rely on...
January 21, 2020
Elaine Graham-Leigh, on the steep cuts to the UK's SOAS: This is the predictable result of government withdrawal of block grant funding of universities, making them rely instead on fee income. This means that, just like any other business, they rely on their customers...
January 21, 2020
Jon Tennant, on the [flimsy-at-best substantiation behind the recent Sci-Hub/Russian intelligence coverage](http://fossilsandshit.com/what-is-the-public-evidence-surrounding-the-latest-sci-hub-allegations/): > At the present, there seems to be no public evidence...
January 17, 2020
A [joint letter from 21 academics](https://medium.com/@brembs/learned-societies-lean-to-the-green-f904336f51ad), on the now-notorious [AAP...
January 13, 2020
Martin Eve, on the [Taylor & Francis acquisition of F1000](https://eve.gd/2020/01/12/the-tf-buyout-of-f1000-neutralises-the-plan-s-threat/): > What is actually happening here is that T&F is neutralizing the threat of Plan S. The Plan states that funded research must...
January 13, 2020
Last week Ithaca S+R's Roger Schonfeld published a characteristically [astute post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/01/06/competing-researcher-identity/) on the race to "own" researcher identity. Schonfeld's analysis of the commercial players—chess moves from...
January 10, 2020
From *Inside Higher Ed*'s [bizarre puff piece](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/01/10/jersey-city-economic-development-drives-changes-saint-peters-university) on Jersey City's Jesuit university Saint Peter's: > “It was a sleepy school. It didn’t do a lot of...
January 9, 2020
Ivy Anderson and Jeff MacKie-Mason, [writing on behalf of the University of California](https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2020/01/ostp-publisher-letter-response/) in reply to the now-notorious [AAP...
January 9, 2020
From the [press release](https://www.hrk.de/press/press-releases/press-release/meldung/springer-nature-and-germanys-projekt-deal-finalise-worlds-largest-transformative-open-access-agree/): > The Read and Publish, ‘transformative’, component of the agreement, effective...
January 8, 2020
Speaking of tech-academia dalliances: Here's Rodrigo Ochigame's [powerful and fine-grained account of big tech's cynical embrace "ethical AI" and academics like MIT Media Lab's former head Joi...
January 8, 2020
J. Nathan Matias, on the [CAT Lab blog](https://citizensandtech.org/2020/01/industry-independent-research/): > It’s now three years since multiple fiascos in 2016 convinced Western democracies that the internet might not be the uncomplicated miracle promoted by tech...
January 7, 2020
James Weis, Amy Brand, and Joi Ito, [in their *Inside Higher Ed* commentary](https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/01/07/why-new-strategies-developing-future%E2%80%99s-knowledge-infrastructures-are-needed-opinion): > Through the construction of such partnerships,...
December 20, 2019
The key passage in the [Association of American Publishers letter](https://presspage-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/1508/coalitionletteropposinglowerembargoes12.18.2019-581369.pdf) to Trump: > As noted above, we have learned that the Administration may be...
December 20, 2019
[*The Washington Post*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-investigates-sci-hub-founder-on-suspicion-of-working-for-russian-intelligence/2019/12/19/9dbcb6e6-2277-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html): > The Justice Department is...
December 20, 2019
An [interesting development in the Internet Society's shameless private-equity sell-off of the .org domain management](https://cms.arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/controversial-sale-of-org-domain-manager-faces-review-at-icann/), via Ars Technica's [Jon...
