September 29, 2020
From the Open Library of Humanities blog: The Open Library of Humanities today celebrates its 5th anniversary since we launched our platform on 28th September 2015 with only 7 journals and 99 supporting institutions. Five years on, our sustainable business model has...
September 29, 2020
"Innovators," the Inside Higher Ed headline has it, "see Zoom University 2.0." By "innovation," though, Inside Higher Ed seems to mean "venture-backed profit-seeking." Here's the latest entrant in the "space":...
September 25, 2020
Techcrunch on a new VC-backed startup, ClassEDU, and its first product, Class for Zoom: Today, Class for Zoom announced that it has raised a $16 million seed round, pre-launch, co-led by Deborah Quazzo of GSV Ventures and Santi Subotovsky of Emergence Capital and a...
September 25, 2020
Kathleen Shearer and the rest of the COAR board writing for LSE Impact: COVID-19 has provided us with a relevant and practical example of the benefits of open science. The current moment should act as a catalyst for transforming the current flawed system of research...
September 11, 2020
Maria Bustillos, in an excellent Nation piece on the publisher lawsuit against the Internet Archive: Penguin Random House, together with fellow megapublishers Hachette, HarperCollins, and Wiley, filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive alleging “mass copyright...
September 10, 2020
Duke University Press, in its announcement that Demography is going platinum OA: Since its founding in 1964, Demography has mirrored the vitality, diversity, high intellectual standard, and wide impact of population studies. Published bimonthly, the journal presents...
