August 24, 2022
Audrey Smith and co-authors, in a study published in MIT's Quantitative Science Studies late last year, with still more evidence that APCs exclude authors from the Global South: We found that for the overwhelming majority of articles published in the Mirror-Parent...
August 11, 2022
The article processing charge (APC)—and its stealthy cousin, the read-and-publish deal—are finally coming under the ferocious assault that they deserve. This last year, both the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation and the Budapest Open Access Initiative came out strong...
August 9, 2022
COPIM's Judith Fathallah, in an excellent Liber Quarterly overview of funding models for OA monographs: Book Processing Charges [BPCs] may have their place in the publishing landscape, and no doubt will be used across a range of models for the foreseeable future. But...
August 5, 2022
I wrote a [short piece](https://elephantinthelab.org/the-case-for-pubpub/) for Elephant in the Lab on the virtues of [PubPub](https://www.pubpub.org): > In its early days, PubPub was proudly sui generis. The team ignored most scholarly publishing conventions by...
August 1, 2022
An interesting, rarely surfaced point, in a [reflection post](https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/) from the University of Cambridge's working group on open research in the humanities, on the drawbacks of the "green," accepted-manuscript repository route to...
July 27, 2022
From June: A jaw-dropping paper, based on FOIA documents, that tracks the foundation-boring grip that for-profit Online Program Management (OPM) firms like 2U have on public universities. The authors combed through hundreds of private contracts, documenting widespread...
