April 2, 2025
Huge announcement from Open Library of Humanities (OLH) lead Caroline Edwards, writing for LSE Impact: According to Jisc’s own review of transitional agreements in the UK published in March 2024, “it would take at least 70 years for the big five publishers to flip...
March 29, 2025
Sue Curry Jansen and I, writing for Psyche, have a new essay out on the neglected philosopher Susanne Langer and metaphor: Metaphor, for Langer, is language’s law of growth. When there is no word available to express a new thought, we reach for analogy – for familiar...
March 11, 2025
Back in January, I wrote about a surprising, and disappointing, sin of omission at the Charleston Hub’s Against the Grain podcast. I’m a fan of Charleston and its parent organization, Annual Reviews, for a slew of reasons (just one of which is the AR’s pioneering role...
March 8, 2025
On the edge of scholarly-publishing relevance, a new journal that I’ve been building with Jamie Cohen-Cole and Philippe Fontaine—History of Social Science—has launched its first issue. The journal is published for the Society for the History of Recent Social Science...
January 1, 2025
The Charleston Hub (with its storied history) is an important institution in the scholarly-publishing orbit. Its most visible project is the Charleston Conference, meeting since 1980 and an indispensable gathering for librarians and publishers. In 2023 the conference...
December 19, 2024
A heroic study, given the data-collection challenges, on public funding for OA journals in Europe: The study includes two separate components, collecting data separately for each European country (including transcontinental states): (1) the volume and key bibliometric...
