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Guest Post – The Future Is Not Perpetual (But it could be yours for just several thousand dollars per year…)

Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a “subscription-based access strategy,” meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.

Molecular Connections Buys Morressier

Molecular Connections has purchased Morressier. Analysis from Roger C. Schonfeld.

Guest Post — Evaluating China’s Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan: A New Era of Research Impact and Standards?

Here we examine the second phase of China’s Journal Excellence Action Plan, its implications, its funding framework, and what it means for Chinese scientific journals, researchers, and the broader international academic publishing community.

Chatting at the Kitchen Table about India’s ONOS Deal

India’s recently announced One Nation, One Subscription plan is in some ways an audacious step into the future and, in other ways, an embrace of the past. What are its implications?

Disruption As an End in Itself: eLife’s Suspension and DORA’s Response

DORA’s reaction to Clarivate’s decision to no longer fully index eLife (and, therefore, not to give it a Journal Impact Factor) seems inconsistent with both its and eLife’s public positions, and based on the mistaken belief that “disruption” is an absolute good in itself.

Scholarly Publishing: The Elephant (And Other Wildlife) In The Room

Journal-based scholarly communication needs a structural change

Oxford Administrators Want OA Policy Removed from REF 2029. I Have an Even Better Idea.

Three Oxford administrators want to lower the cost of mandatory open access by shifting the responsibility for enforcement to funding agencies. But that doesn’t lower costs at all; it only shifts them. To truly lower costs, stop trying to make open access mandatory.

Who Would Have Thought That We Needed Another Listserv?

Open Café, a new listserv dedicated to the free and open discussion of open scholarship has been met with enthusiasm by the scholarly communication community.

Worth the Time? A Critical Look at the Value of Twitter for Journals

With yet another stumble from Twitter/X, Angela Cochran looks at the numbers and asks whether all the efforts journals have put into building and maintaining journal Twitter accounts have been worth it.

Building a Voluntary Contribution Transaction System

Here I propose a framework for a Voluntary Contribution Transaction system to recognize the voluntary contributions in the scholarly workflow and to give tangible benefits to the volunteers.

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

The American Chemical Society is offering a new approach to funding open-access articles; Rick Anderson interviews Sarah Tegen about it.

Revisiting — Building for the Long Term: Why Business Strategies are Needed for Community-Owned Infrastructure

Revisiting a post from 2019 in light of the acquisition of protocols.io by Springer Nature. As community-owned and -led efforts to build scholarly communications infrastructure gain momentum, what can be done to help them achieve long term sustainability?

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Guest Post – The Future Is Not Perpetual (But it could be yours for just several thousand dollars per year…)

Molecular Connections Buys Morressier

Guest Post — Evaluating China’s Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan: A New Era of Research Impact and Standards?

Building a Voluntary Contribution Transaction System

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

Revisiting — Building for the Long Term: Why Business Strategies are Needed for Community-Owned Infrastructure

Guest Post — Why Are UK Libraries Signing a Springer-Nature Deal They Don’t Seem to Like?

SSP Announces Release of Individual Results for the Insights Benchmarking Compensation & Benefits Study

SSP Virtual 5K Run, Walk, and Roll Returns for Fourth-Year