Clik here to view.
Publishing industry tries to silence its critics
According to an article in Times Higher Education, the entire editorial board of an academic journal has threatened to resign after its academic publisher delayed and attempted to censor an academic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Think book prices are out of whack? Try charging $7380
Considering how active, and acrimonious, the debate on scholarly publishing and scholarly open access has become, it’s valuable to get some data points into the mix. Like one, courtesy of Doug’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Macmillan makes Nature access free in content-sharing push
The scholarly open access model of scientific publishing received a boost this week when Macmillan Science and Education, “one of the leading publishing and technology companies in the world,”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are there any real costs in open access publishing?
The UK’s JISC (formerly Joint Information Systems Committee), a government-linked think tank for IT leadership in education, has just released a new article purporting to lay bare “the true cost of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top linguistics journal editorial board quit over Elsevier pricing
A report from Inside Higher Education chronicles the latest skirmish in the struggle between open access proponents and Elsevier. The editors and all 31 editorial board members of leading linguistics...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scientific authors save species with writing choices
Some scientists will be able to save endangered species in 2016 by their choices of what and how they publish. That’s the gist of a New Year’s Day article in The Guardian warning of the threats posed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Massive civil disobedience for scholarly open access
Online knowledge forum Big Think has shared a profile of the Kazakh woman who’s single-handedly taking on the Goliath of scholarly publishing, and leading a global civil disobedience campaign in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Springer expands scientific press content sharing with ReadCube
Springer Nature, the Macmillan-owned research, educational and professional publisher, has announced the expansion of a trial content sharing program based on the famous scientific journal Nature....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is online piracy of academic books really such a threat?
A rather alarmist report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled “Online Piracy of Academic Materials Extends to Scholarly Books,” paints the threat to current academic publishing in very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scholarly Open Access Publishers: Beware the bad apples
Many, myself included, have embraced scholarly open access publishing as an antidote to the ills and exploitative practices of mainstream academic, scientific, and scholarly publishing. However, not...
View Article
