Friday Song: “No Rain”

A 1992 hit with a famous "bee girl" video has quite the backstory

Shady Journal, Shoddy Review

JAMA Pediatrics faces a conundrum. Will they make the right choice?

bioRxiv/medRxiv Survey Results

More are against CZI being involved in biomedical preprinting, and aren't holding back

NIH Accelerates Public Access

The NIH Director moves up a date, part of the effort to destabilize journals

CZI LLC, Meta, and Wild Rides

Will bioRxiv and medRxiv prove as fungible as Meta once was to CZI LLC?

What Is CZI Really Up To?

Perceived as a charity, its essential nature is something else entirely

Disrupted Science — the Book

After years covering the disruption of scientific publishing, the time has come

Song: “The Boys of Summer”

This 1984 classic helped one songwriter avoid foreclosure

An OA Light Bulb Flickers On

An OA advocate describes everything that has gone wrong

It’s Alt-Right v. (Springer) Nature

The alt-right is now targeting journals explicitly — while planning various grifts