September 1, 2020
Yale Unviersity Press’s Richard Fisher, writing on the Scholarly Kitchen in the first of a two-day post: prior to 2020, no major publisher of academic monographs in the arts and social sciences was reporting print sales as less than 60% of the monographic whole,...
August 29, 2020
Inside Higher Ed's Rick Seltzer, quoting a Moody's analyst: “Some universities previously resistant to change will have to take more expansive steps to adapt to this transformation,” said Pranav Sharma, assistant vice president at Moody’s, in a statement....
August 26, 2020
Ethan Zuckerman, announcing the closure of MIT's Center for Civic Media: Thanks to everyone who's followed our work over the years and lent a hand in one way or another. We have had an extraordinary run, thanks most of all to everyone who's joined us around our table...
July 27, 2020
A modest proposal: Given Coalition S’s recent Rights Retention announcement, what about embracing Elsevier’s cynical invention of the “mirror” journal concept? Recall that Elsevier has, in a stroke of evil genius, created over 40...
July 26, 2020
Daisuke Wakabayashi, writing for The New York Times, buries the lede in his story about big tech’s funding of soft-gloves antitrust education: The long era of restraint in antitrust enforcement in the United States can be traced back, in part, to an ideology...
July 18, 2020
Kate Clark, writing for The Information [paywalled], reports on the major haul that Coursera, the for-profit higher-ed purveyor, received in a new VC round—valuing the company at about $2.5 billion. The pandemic has, of course, been wind to Coursera’s fire—a...
