July 30, 2021
COPIM's Samuel Moore, in a [new blog post](https://www.samuelmoore.org/2021/07/26/all-publishers-great-and-small/) that makes a substantive (as opposed to market-power) case for small-scale publishing: > Consider […] that publishing is a situated activity. It benefits...
July 10, 2021
This is a novelty: APCs for paywalled articles, here in the case of the now-notorious [*American Journal of Health Behavior*](https://ajhb.org/submitting-manuscript/fees/): > There are NO submission fees; however, should your manuscript be accepted for publication,...
July 7, 2021
Genuinely [exciting news](https://blog.oa.works/grant-to-bolster-oa-policies-from-bmgf/): > We’re thrilled to announce that OA Works (formerly Open Access Button) has received a grant of $1.9M USD over the next three years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The...
July 7, 2021
My reaction to the sell-off of edX, [published today in *The Chronicle*](https://www.chronicle.com/article/mit-and-harvard-have-sold-higher-educations-future): > Harvard and MIT have, in effect, auctioned off the lecture halls of the future. It’s a short-sighted move...
July 6, 2021
Arvind Dilawar, [writing for *The Nation*](https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/universities-budget-cuts-covid/): > Both the University of Vermont’s president and the dean of its College of Arts and Sciences explicitly cited the pandemic when discussing the need...
