Open access (OA) takes many forms. It can be the product of voluntary associations that are cooperative and mutually supportive. It can result from the “free market,” where Springer Nature charges an $11,000+ article processing charge (APC) to make a single article OA. It can also be produced through a regulatory-compliance-and-punishment sys…[Read more]

Analysis of liberal support for FBI seizure from trump’s estate and role of NARA

Analysis of library organizations’ support for the anti-Chinese, racist, and imperial u.s. Innovation and Competition Act

A response to op-ed and call for polarization

Library publishing is continually shaped by the goals of their parent institutions as well as outside organizations, namely the commercial publishing oligopoly. The emergence of “transformative agreements” (“TAs”) represents a new relationship between universities and commercial journal publishers. However, the motivations behind these agreeme…[Read more]

Uncensored, pre-COVID-19 musings on “transformative agreements” and scholarly communication in two parts:
♦ Part One: Reflections on “Transformative Agreements”
♦ Part Two: Scholarly Communication Freedom Dreams