July 26, 2022
Preprint platform Research Square exists to drive business to English-language editing factory American Journal Experts (AJE), which launched the platform in 2018. Preprint authors receive a Language Quality Score, and are then shilled to spend hundreds of dollars on...
July 22, 2022
Michael Vasquez, writing for The Chronicle [paywalled] a few weeks ago: When a pair of professors stepped down from their posts at Arcadia University this year, without another job lined up, they did so to halt the creation of a physician-assistant program in...
July 21, 2022
Speaking of the Knowledge Futures Group's Gabe Stein, here's the key excerpt from his recent post outlining the KFG's plans for PubPub self-hosting: We’re planning to support both centralized and self-hosted versions within our existing nonprofit by slowly building...
July 19, 2022
The Knowledge Futures Group's Gabe Stein, in a sharp analysis of the peculiar market dynamics of scholarly publishing: Because of this complexity, the academic publishing market imposes enormous social switching costs on its customers. For an individual researcher to...
July 8, 2022
Stanford's Robert Kaplan, arguing in [*Times Higher Education*](https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/lets-end-rocky-marriage-between-academia-and-commercial-publishers) for bringing academic publishing in-house [paywalled, alas], cites the author-excluding APC: >...
July 5, 2022
Iowa State's Curtis Brandy, in an [interview](https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/52/) on the [Opening the Future](https://www.openingthefuture.net) site: > Libraries have traditionally placed their scholarly communications and collections work in distinct...
