May 20, 2021
An important commentary from the Knowledge Futures Group leads responsible for PubPub and the Underlay, reacting to Clarivate's ProQuest acquisition: These days, Elsevier and other major publishing companies operate more like Clarivate, an analytics company that not...
May 13, 2021
From a sobering new post on SciDev.Net: [F]or many researchers in the developing world, who do not have a grant or an institution to cover the fees, the open access system can lock them out of top tier academic journals. Bonaventure Tetanye Ekoe, honorary dean of the...
May 12, 2021
From the superb, just-released COPIM report on collective funding models, which interviewed academic librarians: According to some of our respondents, the funds potentially available to support library membership programmes were also being squeezed by the rise of...
May 12, 2021
Emily Farrell, in a Scholarly Kitchen post: Monographs, by their nature as specialized texts, often see low usage. Scholarly publishers are aware that in order to support a diverse program of scholarship, it can be necessary to subsidize, in part, long-form works that...
May 7, 2021
The indisensable OA observer Richard Poynder dropped another hefty ebook (163 pages!), Information Wants To Be Free, in December. From Poynder's post introducing the book: While what I say might be slightly overweight in European developments, it may not matter if (as...
May 3, 2021
From the press release announcing the exciting merger of Open Library of Humanities and Birkbeck College: The OLH is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher (articles are freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication) with no...
