August 18, 2021
Librarian Rachel Caldwell, in a [Scholarly Kitchen post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/01/13/guest-post-evaluating-publishers-as-partners-with-libraries-and-higher-education/) from January: > Many vendors supplying academic libraries with collections and...
August 16, 2021
Scott Galloway, in a [breezy TechCrunch interview last March](https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/professor-scott-galloway-just-raised-30-million-for-an-online-school-that-upskills-managers-fast/) about his VC-backed startup offering short-run "sprint" class with...
August 16, 2021
Bo-Christer Björk, [in his sharp if studiously neutral account of high journal costs](https://harisportal.hanken.fi/en/publications/why-is-access-to-the-scholarly-journal-literature-so-expensive), based on Michael Porter's [five forces...
August 12, 2021
A pair of revealing anecdotes from [this *Insights* piece](https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.533/) on a two-book OA collaboration between the University of Liverpool's press and library. One of the authors (protected from shame as "Author B") turned in a...
August 11, 2021
I missed this when it [launched back in June](https://thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/news/welcome-to-our-new-open-acjcess-publishing-platform/): > The Sociological Review, the home for critical sociological thinking and research in the UK and internationally...