Optica Under the Microscope Congressional leaders are asking about anonymous donations from a Chinese technology company
Friday Song: “Here I Go Again” Sex, weaponized high heels, and rock 'n' roll — that's what you get this Friday
Wiley Closes a Crop of Journals Wiley closes more journals, a signifier of how publishing has become about commodities, not communities
Hypocrisy & Academic Freedom A webinar about academic freedom is being sponsored by a publisher known for trying to constrain it
Is ALPSP Missing an Opportunity? Learned Publishing will go OA — perhaps as a way for ALPSP to get more subscriptions . . .
SPARC’s Anvil on the Scale More than a decade of direct evidence shows that SPARC has been a major resource and influence of US government access policies
The Greed of the Old Scott Galloway takes on the selfishness of our generation, and the one preceding us.
Song: “I Should Have Known It” A powerful guitar riff and singer combine to melt your ears with this one
Persistent Low Percentages Support for OA and preprints remains low among researchers and academics — even a generation later
Our Anachronistic Algorithms Algorithms almost killed an author by recycling 30-year-old hatred — and that's just the latest
Friday Song: “Blinding Lights” A record-setting hit that harkens back to '80s synth-pop — yet feels so fresh
Preprints — It’s Going to Get Worse Dozens of documented scandals around preprints, and things are about to get a whole lot worse unless changes are made.
Sentiment — Comparisons Examining faculty/researchers, consultants, librarians, and editorial folks — and exploring why two groups diverge
Survey Results — Top Level We like gatekeepers and peer-review, don't trust AI, aren't very bullish on OA, and think preprint servers need work
Song: “I’ve Been Everywhere” Swapping toponyms makes for many versions of a song from the 1950s that's still being remade today.
The Insurrection’s Latest Moves The insurrection amps up — in many venues, with scholarly publishing's modeling others. And why gates and their keepers are to be respected.
Song: “Southern Accents” Dolly Parton pays tribute to her friend, and delivers a powerhouse performance in the process.
OA’s Seedy Side — and TMs Think that new OA publisher has nice offices? And are the bioRxiv and medRxiv brands trademarked?
Preprints & Investor Relations Another day, another commercial exploitation of porous preprint platforms that denigrate peer-review
Preprint Backlash Hits eLife Scientists call for the preprints "shortcut" to be closed, which means the eLife and Gates nonsense in particular