‘The Bigger Threat to Books Than Bans’

May 4, 2026

Maria Bustillos, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review in September: US libraries, universities, and bookstores rely for the delivery of books on a small number of very big profit-driven companies, many of them privately held, whose commitment to freedom of...

Waiting for an Open Infrastructure Collective

January 28, 2026

'Invest in Open Infrastructure announces inaugural grantees of the IOI Fund for Network Adoption' This from November, an announcement of the initial pair of grantees from Invest in Open Infrastructure’s (IOI) “fund for network adoption”: Invest in Open Infrastructure...

‘The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities’

January 27, 2026

Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt and Sjang ten Hagen, in their introduction to a recent Minerva special issue: This Special Issue aims to bring these present-day discussions in a productive dialogue with the past, by exploring the relatively recent invention of the anonymous...

‘Sam Altman–Backed Campus Acquires AI Start-Up’

January 13, 2026

I missed this piece, from Inside Higher Ed in October: Campus, on online two-year college backed by Sam Altman and Shaquille O’Neal, has acquired AI learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount.  Campus will integrated Sizzle AI’s interactive, AI-generated...

‘OA Books Landscape overview’

December 16, 2025

An incredible interactive visual map from the Open Book Futures team, on the OA Books landscape: This is the result of a visual mapping exercise conducted with the stakeholders contributing to the Open Book Futures project, held on Oct 10, 2023 in The Hague and...