February 25, 2022
Helen Dobson, writing for Jisc's blog on the UK consortium's new diamond OA funding scheme: Jisc will publish a call directed to mission-based and diamond publishers to submit an application providing detailed information about their journal/initiative and an...
February 24, 2022
The Guardian: Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian can reveal. For more than a decade,...
February 22, 2022
Demmy Verbeke and Laura Mesotten, writing in UKSG Insights on the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA: The current push for OA risks putting so much strain on library budgets that there is no money left to foster alternative approaches to scholarly communication beyond the...
February 3, 2022
Chris Hartgerink, writing about the new, modular publishing platform ResearchEquals.com, which launched today: We need to work to keep open access accessible to the Global Majority. We join the efforts for new business models to that end. Recent innovations such as...
January 28, 2022
From the SPARC Open Access Working Group's statement endorsing the recently ratified UNESCO Open Science recommendation: The utility of the Recommendation hinges on its uptake by the global community. To this end, we strongly encourage the United States to adopt the...
January 26, 2022
Jeroen Sondervan, in an Open Access Books Network (OABN) post: Under the banner and with the support of the Open Access Books Network, I organized the series ‘OA Books Workouts’, which were five talks (45 minutes) with humanities scholars from different disciplines...
January 13, 2022
From the author bio of Mirela Roncevic's Commonplace article on European librarians' views on OA monographs: Mirela Roncevic is a doctoral candidate at the University of Zagreb, where she has studied information and communication science, with a special focus on Open...
January 10, 2022
I missed this important Brookings report from September: Hundreds of higher education institutions are procuring algorithms that strategically allocate scholarships to convince more students to enroll. In doing so, these enrollment management algorithms help colleges...
January 6, 2022
Twitter has rightly blown up over Taylor & Francis's appalling "Accelerated Publication" grift: If time is critical in your publishing strategy, our Accelerated Publication options are available on a select number of biomedical journals and can help you...
January 3, 2022
From a new Penn State [study](https://edarxiv.org/py3sz/) on online program management (OPMs) deals: > OPM contracts are—to be blunt—one strategy for extracting profit from a mostly nonprofit educational model. And, also bluntly, they are a way of doing so without...
December 29, 2021
Rebecca Bryant, Charles Watkinson, and Rebecca Welzenbach, writing for the Scholarly Kitchen on a science-humanities gap in metadata retrieval: The ability to harvest accurate and mostly complete metadata for researchers in STEM disciplines is quite good in all of...
December 28, 2021
Brilliant paper by Alexander Gross and Björn Brembs, last revised in July: The affordability problem of scholarly publishing, i.e., the supra-inflationary price increases with stagnating library budgets, has been a hot topic for more than three decades. In recent...
December 24, 2021
From a March press release announcing the "EnableOA" publishing platform: The Amnet and Coko Foundation partnership has paved the way for EnableOA: an open access publishing platform for the scholarly community. It is a comprehensive framework with a slew of...
December 21, 2021
Jeffrey R. Young, writing for EdSurge: A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. It’s solution: Create a new...
December 9, 2021
From the Open Library of humanities blog: We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities is now open to expressions of interest from subscription journals in the humanities seeking to move to a gold open access (OA) publishing model without...
December 1, 2021
I have a new working paper, ["Surveillance Publishing,"](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j6ung/) up on SocArXiv: > In place of Google’s propensity to buy, Clarivate is selling bets on future scholarly productivity and impact, among other academic prediction...
November 30, 2021
From the MIT press release: [Direct to Open] moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model, where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. Instead of purchasing a title...
November 9, 2021
Dorothea Salo, in a delightly feisty OA chapter on preservation of digital humanists' work and evidence: Most institutions investing anything at all in the digital humanities have only one to a mere handful of digital humanists on the faculty. These paltry few face...
November 8, 2021
Jorrit Smit and Lauren Hessels, writing for the LSE Impact blog on the "performativity of evaluation": … the way in which specific evaluation methods assume, and thereby produce, different understandings of research and impact. In a recent paper (open...
October 30, 2021
Jeffrey Young writing for EdSurge: Facebook (er, I guess now Meta) announced that it would partner with Coursera and edX to help push Meta’s curriculum in augmented and virtual reality, which it calls the Spark AR Curriculum. A spokesperson for edX, which started as a...
