‘Introducing the Open Book Collective’

The good people at COPIM have officially announced the Open Book Collective: The collective will bring together OA publishers, OA publishing service providers, libraries, and other research institutions to create a new, mutually supportive ecosystem for the thriving...

Annual Reviews Goes All-In with Subscribe to Open

Annual Reviews, in a press release: Today, the leading nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews announced that over the next 18 months they will make their entire portfolio of 51 academic journals freely available to everyone under a new model called Subscribe to Open....

‘When Consolidation Provides Benefits as well as Market Power’

I missed this odd bit of Panglossian praise for corporate consolidation, published in the Scholary Kitchen last fall: One very good reason to favor consolidation is when it provides scale and financial stability to a specialized or niche provider. Such a specialized...