December 1, 2020
Elizabeth Redden, writing for Inside Higher Ed: An alliance of faculty, staff and graduate student unions; American Association of University Professor chapters; and student organizations has come together to support a new petition opposing “the rash of...
December 1, 2020
Dummy Verbeke, writing on behalf of the KU Leuven Libraries, on the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA: The fund is exclusively devoted to the support of non-profit and community-owned initiatives in the field of Open Access and Open Scholarship in general. It is not a...
November 23, 2020
From the Inside Higher Ed piece on the savage Guilford College cuts: In addition to employees, the college will ax majors in math, political science, history, philosophy, geology, economics, peace and conflict studies, chemistry, religious studies, physics, creative...
October 30, 2020
Early results from a DFG-funded study of diamond OA scholar-led journals in Germany: About 20 percent of the titles receive subsidies, mostly from university libraries. The authors aren't sanguine about the other 80 percent: All but a few key journals rely on unpaid...
October 30, 2020
Phil Hill, writing in the Chronicle on the recent University of Arizona acquisition of the for-profit Ashford: Both Arizona and Purdue, with one move, have outwardly leapfrogged their competition and became major players in the online world with a much more diverse...
October 28, 2020
An interesting tidbit, buried in a Scholarly Kitchen post on the implications of COVID for professional associations: At the [American Mathetical Society], our approach is to look to Diamond OA for a new broad-based math journal, Communications of the AMS, launching...
