September 8, 2022
I missed this important statement from cOAlition S back in June: Scientific publishing is evolving rapidly. A number of initiatives have moved away from the notion that peer-reviewed articles must be published in traditional Open Access journals or platforms. They...
September 8, 2022
From the department of creeping privatization: EdSurge’s Daniel Mollenkamp on Coursera’s move to sign university deals for industry-friendly certificates in the wake of falling enrollments: To Coursera, the online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” that went...
September 6, 2022
Patrick Dunleavy, writing for the LSE Impact blog: Other US-based promoters of open science, like the Centre for Open Science, also cover mainly the quantitative disciplines in social sciences (like psychology and health studies). Yet COS’s somewhat disturbing...
September 5, 2022
Marcio Rodrigues and his Brazilian colleagues, in a recent commentary, noting that funded researchers in Brazil have roughly $2,000 a year to conduct their studies: A median cost of APCs equal to USD 2,600 was recently estimated. However, APCs can cost more than USD...
August 30, 2022
KU Leuven's Demmy Verbeke and Laura Mesotten, writing in UKSG Insights on their APC-free Fund for Fair Open Access: We should consider why we strive for OA. If it is only to arrange broader access to the published record, then the easiest approach undoubtedly is to...
August 26, 2022
From yesterday's blockbuster White House announcement on immediate OA for federally funded research: Improving public access policies across the U.S. government to promote the rapid sharing of federally funded research data with appropriate protections and...
