January 27, 2021
The kind folks at the Open Access Books Network invited me to speak at one of their BoOkmArks conversations about the fledgling OA press I founded, mediastudies.press. They've since posted the video recording.
January 25, 2021
Joseph Esposito and Michael Clarke, in a November Scholarly Kitchen post on PLOS's new Communication Action Publishing (CAP) funding scheme: It is our constant refrain to society publishers, among many not-for-profit organizations, that despite their IRS status, they...
January 22, 2021
Montana State librarian Leila Sterman, on switching to Shareyourpaper.org for repository processing: While we haven’t perfected all of our internal processes yet, the introduction of Shareyourpaper into our workflow has decreased the time spent sending out article...
January 21, 2021
Grigori Guitchounts, [writing last week for *Undark*](https://undark.org/2021/01/14/big-science-publisher-is-going-open-access/) on the [usurious *Nature* APC](https://www.nature.com/nature/about/our-publishing-models): > Only the wealthiest universities in the...
January 20, 2021
From Joseph Esposito's [Scholarly Kitchen post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/10/05/the-360-competitor/) on the trade book industry, back in October: > It is a remarkable fact that publishers have succeeded over the past two decades in reaping 100% of the...
January 19, 2021
eLife's Paul Shannon, in an [interview with Scholastica on its new Sciety service](https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/connecting-preprints-reviews-sciety/): > So we started to develop features where you could see content in a Twitter-like feed and then follow...
