Death and Taxes and OA
An MDPI employee dies in Romania, and a public access proposal downplays and hides costs to taxpayers
Kent Anderson
The Litigious Author
In an attention economy, authorship stakes shift to reputation and away from validation
OA Goes Full Commercial
Springer Nature's IPO sails forth, demonstrating how far commercial capture of OA has come
Friday Song: “Bring Me to Life”
A 2003 classic put theatricality back into rock music after a decade of flannel
Another Sign of OA Failure?
PLOS wants more grants to get out of the bind it finds itself in — OA isn't working
Boy, Did We Get Digital Wrong
By not paying attention to our role from the beginning, and buying the techno-determinism of the 1990s, we have problems to fix
Covid-19 Opportunism
Two studies suggest Covid-19 publishing was opportunistic, with journalists catching themselves first
Song: “Straight Into Darkness”
A re-release of a classic album posthumously fulfills an artist's wish, and brings fresh music to life
Open Science Is Exasperating
An explanation, and then what a retraction demonstrated
OA Advocates Define “Equity”
Defining "equity" with a scoring system while completely unable to make it happen