May 24, 2022
From a new and important open letter signed by 17 Nobel laureates and more than 30 international organizations: The exorbitant article processing charges (APC) that come hand-in-hand with the Author-Pays OA publishing model deepens the inequality between researchers...
May 20, 2022
Tonya Riley, writing for Cyberscoop: The Federal Trade Commission voted 5-0 on Thursday to issue a policy statement warning education tech companies against using data collected from children via education services for additional commercial purposes, including...
May 19, 2022
From the Wiley press release: This agreement, which marks Wiley’s first in Latin America, positions UNAM as the leader and pioneer in the development of open access research, allowing its researchers to publish most if not all of its articles open access across...
May 11, 2022
From Springer Nature's press release announcing an OA book deal with Max Planck: The initial three-year agreement, live as of 1st January 2022, will enable authors from all 86 Max Planck Institutes to receive a discount on the standard Book Publishing Charge (BPC) to...
May 10, 2022
From the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) announcement: The Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) is focused on creating a sustainable OA Book focused analytics service. […] In addition to scaling workflows, infrastructure and customer support, the...
May 10, 2022
Kate Eichhorn, [writing in the *Chronicle of Higher Education*](https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-gig-economy-comes-for-scholarly-work) [paywalled]: > In early March, Chegg launched a marketing campaign to convince educators to sell their teaching materials to the...
