March 28, 2022
Alberto Pepe, Matteo Cantiello, and Josh Nicholson, in their arXiv paper calling on arXiv to overhaul itself: Disclaimer: This article has originally been written and posted on Authorea, a collaborative online platform for technical and data-driven documents. Authorea...
March 17, 2022
The Knowledge Futures Group's Gabe Stein, writing about the head-scratching hurdles faced by KFG in its effort to secure financial support from libraries: If we were selling to for-profit corporations we’d mostly be able say “enter your credit card info here” and that...
March 7, 2022
David Beer, in his love letter to the academic book review: Rather than being at the centre of disciplines, they are seen to be something of a luxury: an indulgent misuse of time spent reading, cover to cover, and then writing something that does not have any...
February 25, 2022
ResearchProfessional News: UK universities are close to sealing an open-access deal with the academic publisher Elsevier, following protracted negotiations on the replacement of the UK’s largest subscription agreement. On 24 February, a spokesperson for the higher...
February 25, 2022
Helen Dobson, writing for Jisc's blog on the UK consortium's new diamond OA funding scheme: Jisc will publish a call directed to mission-based and diamond publishers to submit an application providing detailed information about their journal/initiative and an...
February 24, 2022
The Guardian: Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian can reveal. For more than a decade,...
