June 28, 2021
From the detailed March Inside Higher Ed story on Coursera's planned IPO: Although it is still possible to audit many Coursera courses for free, the company has evolved significantly since its early days as a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCS. The...
June 24, 2021
SPARC North America's Claudio Aspesi, in an April piece in the Commonplace: The core activities of senior academic administrators are threatened by algorithms that could effectively dictate how to increase research productivity, climb rankings, or raise graduation...
June 9, 2021
Missed this great short piece by Dafne Calvo when it ran last May: At present, knowledge runs the risk of being capitalised by investing in proprietary software for analysis; by imposing fees for downloading scientific articles; by making methodological and...
June 3, 2021
I only just read the dueling December posts on the OASPA blog—the first an alarm-puller on the "growing emphasis" on green OA, which the signatories—a diverse lot, indeed—blamed Plan S for fanning (in part owing to its recently announced Rights Retention...
June 2, 2021
Speaking of the [recent COPIM report on collective funding](https://zenodo.org/record/4501512#.YLeBLS_3afB), here's an excerpt on stealth for-profit [Knowledge Unlatched](https://knowledgeunlatched.org): > In 2016, key parts of Knowledge Unlatched were bought by Sven...
May 25, 2021
Chris Triggle and co-authors, in the closing paragraph of their excellent article on research metrics: Considering the wider publishing landscape, Brembs (2019) has argued for replacing the legacy journals completely, with peer-review and publishing infrastructure...
