On February the 4th and 5th, 2022, the Paris Open Science Conference (OSEC) took place in the context of the French Presidency of the European Union. On day one of the conference, an entire session was organised on the ‘future of academic publishing’. In this session, many speakers raised awareness for the need for diamond open access (i.e., fre…[Read more]

In this post, Jeroen Sondervan reflects on the OA Workouts: Scholars at Work series he hosted for the Open Access Books Network, discussing what we learned and what others might draw from these examples of open scholarship.

A profile of the BBC America cable channel in the 2000s

“The multi-camera sitcom is dying out. It’ll go the way of the vaudeville variety show,” remarks Janet Kagan, script supervisor on How I Met Your Mother. Steven Levitan, producer of Back To You, offers a different viewpoint: “I grew up watching Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore and Cheers…They were incredibly meaningful, and I refuse to believe…[Read more]