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Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust: The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Issues Guidance on AI

We are expecting the US Government’s AI Action Plan to be issued over the summer. In the meantime, we may glean some of the administration’s views by looking at recently issued information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Apr 28, 2025
  • 0 Comments

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.

  • By Isaac Wink
  • Mar 5, 2025
  • 17 Comments

Molecular Connections Buys Morressier

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

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jan 29, 2025
  • 13 Comments

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.

  • By Ning Zhang, Gareth Dyke
  • Dec 18, 2024
  • 1 Comment

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?

  • By Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 10, 2024
  • 12 Comments

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.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 27, 2024
  • 26 Comments

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

Journal-based scholarly communication needs a structural change

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 24, 2024
  • 8 Comments

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.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jun 17, 2024
  • 6 Comments

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.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 5, 2024
  • 4 Comments

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.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Oct 19, 2023
  • 5 Comments

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.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 9, 2023
  • 8 Comments

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.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Oct 2, 2023
  • 23 Comments

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?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 1, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Revisiting: Who Has All The Content?

Revisiting a post from 2017: Several services aim to gather all publications comprehensively. Who has all the content?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 13, 2023
  • 2 Comments

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

Libraries continue to sign Transformative Agreements while becoming increasingly convinced that they do not represent the desired transformation. Peter Barr explains why this happens.

  • By Peter Barr
  • Jun 22, 2023
  • 10 Comments

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