Is the OA movement painting itself into a corner with concerns about new OA rules and regulations?
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Rick Anderson interviews Nick Lindsay of MIT Press about the press’s new shift+OPEN program for subscription journals that want to go OA.
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New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.
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Rick Anderson revisits a 2020 post: One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?
The post Revisiting: Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
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An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
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A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?
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In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else.
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Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.
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An interview with Julian Wilson about IOP Publishing’s new transformative agreement with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.
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I realized recently that I’ve been organizing formal debates at conferences for some time now. This has led me to reflect on why I do that.
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In light of the recent anniversary of the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we revisit Rick Anderson’s post on how journalists flag unsupported claims and blatant falsehoods, and whether preprint platforms should do the same.
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Why aren’t libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.
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Looking back at Richard Poynder’s in-depth analysis of the state of open access. What’s changed since then?
The post Revisiting — The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
Pearson is offering online access to its entire textbook collection for $15 a month. Will students go for it?
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