Mapping Open Access, or the lack thereof
Just how many scholars and researchers are running into paywalls as they go about their work? A new initiative, the Open Access Button, is in the process of making it… Read more »
Open Access advocates protest the FIRST Act
When, in February 2013, the White House issued a directive stating that all larger federal agencies (agencies that spent over $100 million R&D annually) should make the results of any… Read more »
John Bohannon’s Open Access sting paper annoys many, scares the easily scared, accomplishes relatively little
There have been many great stings in history. For instance, that time when two guys invented a great unknown Australian modernist poet and his complete works in an afternoon. But… Read more »
Academic publisher sues librarian blogger for millions
“Beall’s list”, created by University of Colorado metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, collates the academic journals which he regards as questionable. His hard work on outing journals whose business and academic… Read more »
Elsevier buys Mendeley, a million OA advocates groan
In a disturbing turn of events for the world of academic publishing, the announcement came yesterday that Mendeley, the British start-up that combined a research management system with a social… Read more »