Early results from a DFG-funded study of diamond OA scholar-led journals in Germany: About 20 percent of the titles receive subsidies, mostly from university libraries. The authors aren’t sanguine about the other 80 percent: All but a few key journals rely on...
Phil Hill, writing in the Chronicle on the recent University of Arizona acquisition of the for-profit Ashford: Both Arizona and Purdue, with one move, have outwardly leapfrogged their competition and became major players in the online world with a much more diverse...
An interesting tidbit, buried in a Scholarly Kitchen post on the implications of COVID for professional associations: At the [American Mathetical Society], our approach is to look to Diamond OA for a new broad-based math journal, Communications of the AMS, launching...
This April piece by COPIM‘s Samuel Moore has aged pretty well: If things were tough already for small, not-for-profit, and university press publishers, they are going to get worse during the downturn. Higher education is predicted to be badly hit by the crisis...
Jonathan Gray, announcing his new collection, co-edited with Martin Eve: MIT Press have recently published a new book on Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access edited by Martin Eve and myself. […] My...
From the press release on the just-released SPARC Europe report copyright and licensing policy [pdf]: Clear from this study: the majority of publishers have yet to embark on a more OA friendly policy journey, though some are making preparations. “If these publishers...
