August 15, 2023
Martin Eve: For me, the fundamental meta-principle, or ideal, that underpins POSI (the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure) is forkability and persistence. Taken on aggregate and implemented, an organization that signs up for POSI should be duplicable. That...
August 15, 2023
The Royal Society of Chemistry, announcing still-more transformative [sic] agreements: The growth of transformative agreements within the North America region includes multiple read and publish deals in the USA and new country deals in Mexico and Canada. This builds...
August 14, 2023
Gaynor Redvers-Mutton of the Biochemical Society, in an [interview with Scholastica](https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/cultivating-sustainable-in-house-publishing-pt2/) on the Society’s disastrous dalliance with APCs: > Commercially, the rationale inbuilt to the...
August 14, 2023
Goldie Blumenstyk, [writing for *The Chronicle*](https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/the-edge/2022-07-27) [paywalled] on her conversation with Cathie Smith, interim head of the nonprofit slated to inherit $800 million from the...
July 10, 2023
Lars Wenaas, in a 2002 Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analysis study of Norwegian read-and-publish (i.e., “transformative”) deals, found that the deals drove scholars to publish in high-prestige hybrid journals over full-OA journals and green repositories. Hardly a...
June 27, 2023
A good story, from Fast Company, on social media sites’ discrimination against researchers: Independent researchers have used web scraping to reveal large-scale disinformation operations, horrifying malfunctions in platform algorithms, and more. But scraped data isn’t...
