October 10, 2023
Per Pippin, writing in LSE Impact on a Diamond Open Access Fund: Read-and-Publish deals are likely to be short lived; they were, after all, supposed to be ‘transitional deals’. The public money that has so far been spent on these deals could be better invested in this...
September 8, 2023
Note: This essay was recently published in Amerikastudien/American Studies, as part of a Forum on Digitization, Digital Humanities, and American Studies. The essay carries a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley, and SAGE:...
September 4, 2023
Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Silicon Valley for-profit Coursera, on the Coursera blog: The job market is changing rapidly, and to meet new employer and student demands, universities must also evolve. Today, I’m excited to announce that Coursera and the University of...
August 28, 2023
Philip Cohen, on his blog, addressing the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) shameful obstructionism on open access: Alondra Nelson has had a storied career in American social science. After joining the Yale sociology faculty in 2009, she wrote, among many...
August 17, 2023
Speaking of the MIT Press, sometime in mid-April the press’s OA books began including a full-book, single-button download.1 Finally! As I and others have complained, the chapter-by-chapter download mode used by JSTOR, Project MUSE, and a number of OA publishers (MIT...
August 17, 2023
An excellent Chronicle piece [paywalled, alas] from Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths Press) and Amy Brand (the MIT Press), on the slate of well-intentioned OA policies from the U.S., Europe, and Britain: As the heads of progressive university presses on two sides of the North...
