January 6, 2022
Twitter has rightly blown up over Taylor & Francis's appalling "Accelerated Publication" grift: If time is critical in your publishing strategy, our Accelerated Publication options are available on a select number of biomedical journals and can help you...
January 3, 2022
From a new Penn State [study](https://edarxiv.org/py3sz/) on online program management (OPMs) deals: > OPM contracts are—to be blunt—one strategy for extracting profit from a mostly nonprofit educational model. And, also bluntly, they are a way of doing so without...
December 29, 2021
Rebecca Bryant, Charles Watkinson, and Rebecca Welzenbach, writing for the Scholarly Kitchen on a science-humanities gap in metadata retrieval: The ability to harvest accurate and mostly complete metadata for researchers in STEM disciplines is quite good in all of...
December 28, 2021
Brilliant paper by Alexander Gross and Björn Brembs, last revised in July: The affordability problem of scholarly publishing, i.e., the supra-inflationary price increases with stagnating library budgets, has been a hot topic for more than three decades. In recent...
December 24, 2021
From a March press release announcing the "EnableOA" publishing platform: The Amnet and Coko Foundation partnership has paved the way for EnableOA: an open access publishing platform for the scholarly community. It is a comprehensive framework with a slew of...
December 21, 2021
Jeffrey R. Young, writing for EdSurge: A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. It’s solution: Create a new...
