Plan S: It’s Not Going Great

A new report has its own limitations, but even with those, Plan S doesn't seem to be working

Friday Song: “Let It Rock”

Chuck Berry is the fount of rock, as this week's song reminds us

Child Labor, Scrip, and Tech

The age of digital shamelessness might be coming to an end as people realize its problems

Calculators Beat LLMs at Math

Skeptics keep revealing how limited AI and LLM systems are at even some simple tasks

Song: “The Emptiness Machine”

Back from a seven-year hiatus, Linkin Park has a new lineup and popular new music

Death and Taxes and OA

An MDPI employee dies in Romania, and a public access proposal downplays and hides costs to taxpayers

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