‘A free toolkit to foster open access agreements’

Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle, writing in Insights: The realization of a transformative deal can be a complex and time-consuming process. Success is not only determined based on the results of the negotiation process, but also in the execution of the contract. To...

‘Public access is not equal access ‘

A good statement from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science): Gold OA journals, for which authors pay publication charges, work for senior scientists who are well-funded, tenured, and overwhelmingly male and white, but not so...

‘Introducing Nature Research Intelligence solutions’

More surveillance publishing from Springer Nature: Demonstrating research impact and setting a comprehensive strategy are critical tasks for any research organisation, but gathering trustworthy insights can be difficult and time-consuming. To support organisations in...

Dystopian Headline of the Week

From AZ Inno: “VR edtech company connected to ASU raises $20M in series A funds”. The lede: An immersive learning educational technology company developed in collaboration with Arizona State University has raised $20 million in series A funding as it continues...

A Commonplace for Scholarly Communication

From Sarah Kearns’ just-published [editorial manifesto](https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/t5i7htvu/) for *Commonplace*: > The landscape of knowledge sharing and dissemination is expansive. […] Moreover, critique floods the ecosystem partially rightly so...