Last week, the University of California terminated its license with Elsevier. Leakage has reduced the value of the big deal -- and publisher pricing power.
Last week, I was invited to participate in a meeting of the Force11 Scholarly Commons Working Group in San Diego, California, U.S.A. The group, consisting of a mix of researchers, librarians, publishers, and other stakeholders has been using grant funds to examine what it would look like to build a commons centered on open scholarship. During…
K. Takeda, G. Earl, J. Frey, S. Keay, and A. Wade. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, (2013)