October 27, 2021
Sue Curry Jansen and I, in a double review of Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI (Yale, 2021) and Frank Pasquale's The New Laws of Robotics (Harvard, 2020): What Crawford and Pasquale draw out is that AI is a way of seeing the world—a lay epistemology. When we see the world...
October 22, 2021
From Scholastica's 2020 "State of Journal Production and Access" report: Transformative agreements were a lower rated option, with 54% of survey respondents selecting “low” or “no” potential and only 32% of respondents selecting “some” or “very” high...
October 19, 2021
The good people at COPIM, in their formal announcement of the Open Book Collective: OBC will act as a collector of revenues accrued for new membership packages from institutions – primarily academic libraries – with this revenue then passed on to OA book publishers...
October 4, 2021
Alexandra Freeman, in an August Scholarly Kitchen interview about her new publishing platform Octopus: Of course people can publish elsewhere as well. I suspect in the short term Octopus will act a bit like a preprint server in that respect. Authors will hopefully...
September 30, 2021
Speaking of the draft UNESCO recommendations, I missed this April announcement: Today, LA Referencia, RedCLARA and the three African regional research and education networks – ASREN, WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance – signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...
September 29, 2021
Agata Morka, reporting last year on an OA-books funding workshop: In the Nordic countries, there are official lists, with separate ratings for journals and for book publishers (Norwegian one (also used in Sweden), Danish and Finish [sic] one). They are used in various...
