December 12, 2019
punctum books co-director [Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei](https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/here-is-what-you-can-do-with-your-overhead-punctum-books): > As punctum books over the last few years has tried to develop a sustainable model of scholar-led open-access...
December 12, 2019
Tim Wu, in [*Times* op-ed](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/opinion/textbook-prices-college.html): > Teaching is a profession with its own ethical duties; students are both our charges and a captive market. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with assigning an...
December 12, 2019
[Björn Brembs takes Elsevier](http://bjoern.brembs.net/2019/12/elsevier-now-officially-a-predatory-publisher/) through the [new, five-part "predatory journal" definition](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y): > So as far as this exercise goes, at least...
December 12, 2019
[*Inside Higher Ed*](https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/12/11/ratings-agencies-post-mixed-outlooks-higher-education) on the latest [U.S. higher ed ratings...
December 9, 2019
Annie Waldman and David Armstrong of ProPublica, in a [background story for the *Chronicle*](https://www.chronicle.com/article/Many-Public-Universities/247667) about their new ["Dollars for Profs" conflict of interest...
