Nonprofit health, U.S.-style: “Providence is sitting on $10 billion that it invests, Wall Street-style, alongside top private equity firms. It even runs its own venture capital fund.” nytimes.com/2022/09/24/bus…

🧵Fellow humanists: do you care that the largest academic publishers in the world are suing the government of India for allowing their people to access free online libraries? Do you care that Harvard & Oxford UPs have “taken down” online libraries? tinyurl.com/4krbkubu #crimes

When can we all agree* that this is not the way to achieve sustainable & equitable #OpenAccess? I feel sorry for the burden this adds to the librarians. *SN excluded

🚨New Preprint 🚨 The APC-Effect: Stratification in Open Access Publishing Excited to share our work that shows the role of institutional resources (i.e.💲for APCs) in shaping who publishes in which OA journals doi.org/10.31222/osf.i…

A significant move indeed in the commercial consolidation of open-access humanities infrastructure: blog.ubiquitypress.com/de-gruyter-and…. And a reminder that there is no entity outside the truly non-profit space that is not for sale, however, community-oriented it may be. bepress redux.

Great webinar just wrapped up, hosted by Knowledge Futures: "Sustaining an Open Knowledge Ecosystem," w/ Sharla Lair & Jeff Pooley | @[email protected]. Hopefully, a recording will be available. Here's a short summary & some of the ideas/projects/services/initiatives mentioned.

All those scholars outraged at the corporate takeover of Twitter, threatening to withdraw, you're gonna love it when you hear about the mass for-profit corporate ownership of academic publishing platforms.

It was an honor to be invited by Nature to review "Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information" by Sarah Lamdan. Time to curb the data brokers nature.com/articles/d4158…

Twitters CEO has wrecked the site but is almost ready to participate in a SxSW panel from 2004 on “Is blogging journalism”

I wrote a piece on the potential impact of the Big Tech shakeup on those careers who *demand* digital visibility--most especially creators. Once again, vulnerable creators will most likely bear the brunt: businessinsider.com/big-tech-shake…

We are thrilled to announce the launch today of the Open Book Collective! Visit our site to see our members such as Open Book Publishers, DOAB (account inactive), OAPEN (account inactive), punctum 😬 books, mediastudies.press | @[email protected], meson press, Mattering Press, African Minds & #Thoth! #LibraryTwitter

If you have a lot of followers you should do the right thing for them and lead them off this platform - at some cost to yourself - because they helped you get where you are. Here is Teri Kanefield with a good explanation terikanefield.com/socialmedia/.

I have left Twitter. We can do better. Find me on Mastodon at timelfen at assemblag.es. Thanks for so many great discussions. This message repeats.

Great news especially for #LSI scholars (ICA LSI NCA LSI): Irving Goffman's 1953 PhD dissertation is now available as an open access book, thanks to mediastudies.press | @[email protected] - mediastudies.press/pub/ns-ccic

We at mediastudies.press are proud to share with you the first-ever publication of Erving Goffman's doctoral dissertation: Communication Conduct in an Island Community 1/5: mediastudies.press/communication-…

The Redemption of Plan S | Jeff Pooley ift.tt/9GXi2QK

“Large Language Publishing” — a new Upstream piece on the big scholarly publishers and their in-progress AI play, with implications for knowledge (“Matthew Effect on the scale of Scopus”) Open Access Tracking Project @[email protected] upstream.force11.org/large-language…

Large Language Publishing ift.tt/bfJqnia

The second commentary in our section "AI and Academic Publishing" is now available! "Large Language Publishing: The Scholarly Publishing Oligopoly’s Bet on AI," written by Jeff Pooley | @[email protected] and edited by Leslie Chan is available here: doi.org/10.18357/kula.…. UVic Libraries