EU Pushes Puzzling OA Proposal
Edits and insertions to a proposed EU OA policy show a growing realization that things are not going as planned
Kent Anderson
Song: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
A 1968 George Harrison classic continues to attract great guitarists to entrance listeners
“Distribution Mismatch”
Euphemisms abound in a recent post about how OA content is less targeted and possibly less trusted, leaving an overall stain on the literature
A Lesson from Tucker Carlson
When personalities believe they are more powerful than brands, they often find some hard truths
OA’s Teetering House of Cards
Editors fired for pushing volume, more academics realizing consequences, and copyright violations at scale
Song: “Where the Streets Have No Name”
An iconic soundscape, a structurally complex song, and a classic, all rolled into one
Is Cashless Cost-free?
Is cashless really the way forward, or does it drive inequality?
Storming Off — To What End?
Some editors resign, and the world keeps turning — again — while we get a peek into why
Review: “Crash Landing”
How large companies survived the Covid-19 economic whiplashes — interesting, tiresome, and some major gaps
The Spin in Preprint Abstracts
A new paper finds that abstracts of preprints are more biased and less complete — at all stages