Song: “The Emptiness Machine”

Back from a seven-year hiatus, Linkin Park has a new lineup and popular new music

Death and Taxes and OA

An MDPI employee dies in Romania, and a public access proposal downplays and hides costs to taxpayers

The Litigious Author

In an attention economy, authorship stakes shift to reputation and away from validation

OA Goes Full Commercial

Springer Nature's IPO sails forth, demonstrating how far commercial capture of OA has come

Friday Song: “Bring Me to Life”

A 2003 classic put theatricality back into rock music after a decade of flannel

Another Sign of OA Failure?

PLOS wants more grants to get out of the bind it finds itself in — OA isn't working

Boy, Did We Get Digital Wrong

By not paying attention to our role from the beginning, and buying the techno-determinism of the 1990s, we have problems to fix

Covid-19 Opportunism

Two studies suggest Covid-19 publishing was opportunistic, with journalists catching themselves first

Song: “Straight Into Darkness”

A re-release of a classic album posthumously fulfills an artist's wish, and brings fresh music to life