May 5, 2022
Rachel Caldwell and Robin N. Sinn, [writing in *Commonplace* in November](https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/1qhe2fxi/release/1), propose a journal-publisher scorecard. In their vision, > a publisher’s actions are quantified based on points earned for...
May 3, 2022
From Arxiv's [blog](https://blog.arxiv.org/2022/04/21/librarians-gain-new-insights-into-their-researchers-arxiv-usage/) last week: > New among the membership benefits that all institutions receive, is access to a personalized digital dashboard, containing an overview...
April 27, 2022
The good people at COPIM have officially announced the Open Book Collective: The collective will bring together OA publishers, OA publishing service providers, libraries, and other research institutions to create a new, mutually supportive ecosystem for the thriving...
April 6, 2022
Annual Reviews, in a press release: Today, the leading nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews announced that over the next 18 months they will make their entire portfolio of 51 academic journals freely available to everyone under a new model called Subscribe to Open....
April 5, 2022
I missed this odd bit of Panglossian praise for corporate consolidation, published in the Scholary Kitchen last fall: One very good reason to favor consolidation is when it provides scale and financial stability to a specialized or niche provider. Such a specialized...
March 29, 2022
From my just-published Elephant in the Lab piece: Siphoning taxpayer, tuition, and endowment dollars to access our own behavior is a financial and moral indignity. That we are paying the sellers a second time, after budget-draining subscription and APC outlays, is a...
