Do we actually need to write research papers at all?
If we are going to lean on the creativity and the cross-domain thinking of human researchers, then surely that should be where the human time goes.
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Open Access
The economics and politics of open access publishing — APCs, Gold, Diamond and Hybrid, and who ends up paying for them.
OpenAccess.ai: How Cheap Can We Make Academic Publishing?
Article processing charges run to thousands per paper. OpenAccess.ai tests how much of the editorial stack can genuinely be automated.
From Gold to Diamond: Is Equitable Open Access Still a Mirage?
Gold Open Access growth is slowing, and Hybrid is filling the gap rather than Diamond. What the numbers say about equitable publishing.
Have we all forgotten about SciHub?
Sci-Hub's founder proposes a colour-coded taxonomy that absorbs Black OA into legitimate Open Access. A more interesting idea than it sounds.
Some Gold Open Access (OA) Article Processing Charges (APC) data
A new Gold Open Access article processing charge dataset, and what it says about whether we can publish open access faster and cheaper.
Open Access: Mo money, mo problems
From discovering PLOS ONE in a stem cell lab to today's article processing charges: how Open Access got expensive, and what that cost us.
OpenResearch WTF - March 2024
March 2024: the Gates Foundation drops APCs and mandates preprints, plus the first State of Open Data supplementary report.
OpenResearch WTF - February 2024
February 2024: eLife's new model one year on with 6,200 submissions and 1,300 reviewed preprints, plus the launch of TL;DR Shorts.
Who benefits when, from FAIR data? Part 3 - The Public
Part 3: the public fund research through taxes but cannot read most of it. What open academic data owes the people paying for it.
All of the knowledge for all of the machines
Two slow revolutions in publishing, blurred peer review and universal Open Access, decide what machines can legally read and actually trust.