What have I been saying about Discoverability for much of the past two decades? He said, not very helpfully...
Of these only Wiley is actually an American company, a fact more important than sometimes appreciated. The US is also not the majoritarian global player, nowadays, so there are lots of dynamics in play. And learned societies are the actual owners of many of the journals under scrutiny. Interesting…
Although OUP NY and CUP NY are both a bit different, as you might imagine....agree you should stick to your guns if poss
The "proposed policy for monographs to be made freely available under open-access licences within two years of publication as part of the requirements for the UK’s Research Excellence Framework...raises critical questions about the intersection of AI and open access for the scholarly community."
Generative AI firms should stop ripping off publishers and instead work with them to enrich scholarship, says Oxford University Press’ David Clark
Have heard this used in Wales, interestingly. But still rare…
A question: would scholars prefer a scholar-led modest-surplus subscription model, or a commercial Open Access one, if that became the choice, certainly in the West? It's not an impossible scenario (at all), with AHSS going in one direction and STEM the other.
There is a real problem with a lot of the schol comm discussion about AI and IP at the moment, esp its presumption that the only law that matters is US law. As serious tech analysts like Ben Evans have already hinted at, it is much more complex than that www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...
‘the best safeguard of academic standards is not external validation or any other external form of external control but the growth of the teaching institution as a self-critical academic community’ the Lindop Committee (1985). Does that still stand?
Just to wish all of my many friends in the world of schol comm, very loosely defined, all the very best for the year to come! I will try and get a lot more active over here but am still doing quite a bit over there...
With warm thanks to Sam Moore, here is my first Blue Sky post. Please let me know if this is any way visible!