Heather Joseph
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SPARC Urges U.S. Dept. of Justice to Block McGraw-Hill Cengage Merger
From SPARC: Today, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) submitted a detailed filing to the U.S. Department of Justice urging federal antitrust enforcers to block the proposed merger between college textbook publishing...
Advocacy Group to DOJ: Cengage-McGraw Hill Merger Could Create a ‘Platform Monopoly’ in Education - EdSurge News
An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. Department of Justice opposing the proposed merger of two of the world’s ...
Textbook Authors Say Their Publisher Is Shorting Them on Royalties. They Blame Its Digital-Subscription Service.
A lawsuit filed on Tuesday against the textbook publisher Cengage alleges that it violated authors’ contracts by altering how it calculates their royalties. At the center of the case is the company’s digital-subscription service.
More publishing merger news – the pushback grows
The groups opposing the merger of Cengage and McGraw-Hill are growing. Textbook authors and SPARC, a “global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education,” …
In departure for NIH, Cancer Moonshot requires grantees to make papers immediately free
Open-access requirement diverges from usual U.S. government policy
Heather Joseph
Wonderful to see the immediate #openaccess policy from @JoeBiden's Cancer Moonshot come into effect at the NIH! Now we need this policy extended to ALL U.S. federally funded research articles...
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SPARC Urges Department of Justice to Block Merger Between Cengage and McGraw-Hill
SPARC submitted a detailed filing urging the Justice Department to block the proposed merger between textbook publishing giants Cengage and McGraw-Hill.
Preprints are valid research outputs for REF2021
In conversations about preprints in the UK, the question is often raised: ‘are preprints included in REF?’ In brief: yes. This is most likely to be applicable for any research manuscript that is prepared close to the REF2021 submission deadline, and...
Open Access Investment Fund
As of July 1, 2019, the Library’s Open Access Publishing Fund has been repurposed as an Open Access Investment Fund. We feel that by shifting our focus toward the long-term transformation of the scholarly publication ecosystem, we can accelerate the...
AmeliCA before Plan S – The Latin American Initiative to develop a cooperative, non-commercial, academic led, system of scholarly communication
Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. However, in Latin America an open access ecosystem fo…
Do monographs have a future? Publishers, funders and research evaluators must decide
The future of the academic monograph has been questioned for over two decades. At the heart of this ‘monograph crisis’ has been a publishing industry centred on the print publication of monographs …
Computer Science Could Learn A Lot From Library And Information Science
There is much computer scientists can learn from the library and information science community. If they hurry, they might just be able to learn some of it before it all gives way to the data-driven wave crashing across academia.
Natalie Evans Harris of BrightHive explains how data can be studied with more advanced technology, but also with more empathy.
Natalie Evans Harris of BrightHive explains how data can be studied with more advanced technology, but also with more empathy. – Natalie Evans Harris, BrightHive | WiDS 2019