Publishing your entire book with me at Lever Press is not only free, but we pay our authors an honorarium of $1000. And that's in addition to all the other wonderful ways we treat your project!

From some of the responses to this, it seems people are oddly wedded to the idea that it is right and rational that publishers behave the way they do and that you can correct their behaviour by simply fixing the 'incentives'. The same magic market thinking that brought us APCs.

Fill your repositories to the brim! Pre your prints!

Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality. Launching September 2024. Pre-order now available. ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

Three fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships - part of Cambridge Collections Connections Communities 'Collections & Communities in the East of Engand' Arts and Humanities Research Council doctoral programme now open for applications ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/students… ... (1/4)

🎉The project has a name! And a blog! Community Health Interests for Researchers & Oversight Networks (CHIRON). Our goal: developing & piloting a toolkit to encourage researchers, ethics boards, & data access committees to consider group interests (doi.org/10.21428/4f835…)

📈 Independent society publishers saw median revenue GROWTH of 21% 2014-2022.
😔 Societies who outsourced their journals publishing saw a median DECLINE of 30%.
To find out why (and what it has to do with a big yellow taxi and #openaccess ) check out: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

'As a starting point, we must pull back from the current focus on relentless growth of article output to maintain and grow profits'. Enjoyed this post by Alison Mudditt

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/04/04/tra…

Perhaps it is because commercial publishers have so thoroughly captured much of the research process (and people's minds) that a dodgy paper is only seen as a journal's faulty product and not a researcher's professional misconduct

Did you contribute to the Radical Bookseller journal (1979-1992)? We'd love to hear from you as we are working with the Amiel & Melburn Trust to digitise the journal. More info here tinyurl.com/37a6vaa6

Coming soon: The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information will be launched on April 16!

barcelona-declaration.org

In which I try to shoe-horn last week's scholarly communication discourse into one short blogpost
samuelmoore.org/2024/04/02/res…

Job alert: We're seeking an expert researcher to shape and build a research agenda on the racial dimensions of the future of work as part of our Labor Futures team. If you’re passionate about building connections between advocacy and research, apply now!
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“The bottom line is that journals are not equipped with their volunteer editors and reviewers, and non-subject matter expert staff to police the world’s scientific enterprise.”
yes, it is true. this is the reason why paper mills thrive 2/n

Taking my daughter to my local childhood library. It's still lovely despite the brutal tory cuts.