November 30, 2023
Roy Kaufman, CEO of the for-profit Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), posted excerpts from the company’s response to the US Copyright Office’s call for comments on AI training data. The Scholarly Kitchen post is fascinating and worthy of notice. It’s hardly surprising...
November 28, 2023
Speaking of APC revenue, Leigh-Ann Butler and colleagues have a great paper out in Quantitative Science Studies, on APC revenue from the big five commercial publishers (2015–2018): Revenue from gold OA amounted to $612.5 million, while $448.3 million was obtained for...
November 27, 2023
The just-released U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) report on OA financing is definitely interesting—it’s far more in-depth in its scope than the last year’s Nelson Memo. References to cOAlition S, diamond OA, subscribe-to-open, and other...
November 17, 2023
A coda to Tuesday’s post on SPARC’s Elsevier report. Here’s Sam Biddle, writing for The Intercept on Elsevier corporate sibling LexisNexis Risk Solutions: The popular data broker LexisNexis began selling face recognition services and personal location data to U.S....
November 14, 2023
From SPARC North America’s overview of its important new report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect data tracking: By analyzing the privacy practices of the world’s largest publisher, the report describes how user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library...
