October 14, 2024
I have revised and updated my “Large Language Publishing” Upstream essay from January, in a just-published article in KULA: The AI hype cycle has come for scholarly publishing. This essay argues that the industry’s feverishーif mostly aspirationalーembrace of artificial...
October 1, 2024
From the imitable Corey Doctorow, in a good, link-filled post on the scholarly publishing scam: It’s been four years since MIT’s decision to boycott Elsevier, and things are going great. The open access consortium SPARC just published a stocktaking of MIT libraries...
August 27, 2024
From the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) recently released Contracts in Publishing: A Toolkit for Authors and Publishers: Academic and scientific publishing is mainly concerned with the production and distribution of works of scholarly research...
August 12, 2024
A good piece from the AAUP’s Academe on the encroachment of corporate software (like so-called “learning management systems” (LMSs)): While commercialization of data, including user-generated content and intellectual property, occurs behind the scenes unregulated,...
August 6, 2024
From a short piece I recently published in the European media studies journal NECSUS: The real question is political will. If the scholarly publishing system is hurtling toward open access, who will pay for it? There are two choices, in effect: authors or direct...
July 29, 2024
Janneke Adema and Sam Moore, in one of the very best scholarly articles on academic publishing I’ve read in a long time: [I]f you give scholars (for example) one day of unstructured autonomous time a week to work on scholar led publishing projects, a burgeoning,...
