A UCLA professor has sued six major academic publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law by barring simultaneous submissions to multiple journals and denying pay for “peer review” services. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
A University of California Los Angeles neuroscience professor has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law by barring simultaneous submissions to multiple journals and denying pay for “peer review” services.
I haven't been back to NY Williamsburg in a long time, but having lived there twenty years ago, I still can't quite believe the degree of completeness gentrification has reached.
"In fact, the left is so factionalised that Žižek and the Centre for Ideology Critique and Žižek Studies at Cardiff University no longer talk to one another." www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/k...
At 75, the “rock star” intellectual has alienated many. But is his politics a strange source of sanity?
As much as I love the idea of upcycling, in some cases it feels a little painful. I mean, Mayfield's nine-inch Superfly dipped in acrylic feels like a huge waste.
On my way to APSA in Philadelphia @APSAtweets Looking forward to seeing friends I haven't seen for years and meeting new colleagues. Presenting on processes of subjectivation through trust. Drop by (although I admit Sunday at 8am is a tough one) convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/aps...
"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from." AI in publishing going great then www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).