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Subscribe to The BriefIssue 71 • November 2024
Will the Nelson Memo survive the incoming administration? A new report from MIT Press looks to build a research agenda for effective open science policy. eLife loses its Impact Factor. And are the scientific and publishing conversations moving over to Bluesky, and if so, does it matter?
Issue 70 • October 2024
Silverchair buys ScholarOne in an all-Charlottesville combination. Springer Nature IPOs at long last. Clarivate puts journals on hold while concerns are raised about others. A Plan S epilogue.
Issue 69 • September 2024
Will Springer Nature’s 3rd IPO attempt prove successful? S2O runs into turbulence as IWA ends offering. Atypon enters the fray as CDPs heat up in ScholComm. A class action suit against scholarly publishers? Plus which journals are the most likely to inflict paper cuts?
Issue 68 • August 2024
Early 2024 data suggests a major market shift away from the leading born-OA publishers, Congress is unhappy with the OSTP’s Nelson Memo licensing terms, researchers begin to find their OA policy voice
Issue 67 • July 2024
Fuzzy numbers muddle analyses of market consolidation and APC prices. Brandification of journals is not new. Survey says … researchers need more support from publishing infrastructure.
Issue 66 • June 2024
OSTP offers no financial analysis of the Nelson Memo’s impact. NIH’s revised and retroactive Nelson Memo plan speeds up the transition to OA. Policymakers largely ignore the administrative burden of OA. And is search the wrong application for AI, a technology that is producing “bullshit”?
Issue 65 • May 2024
Do new GenAI developments signal an end to traffic to journals? Is AI training set licensing really going to pay off? Why negativity is needed for proper AI training. The implications of JACC and The Lancet’s new article transfer agreement.
Issue 64 • April 2024
Publishers are left with a cancelled check as funders who have demand journals flip to APC now pull back support for the APC model, Gates makes a “U”-turn to preprints, and society partnering decisions are complex decisions that go beyond simple measurements of revenue.
Issue 63 • March 2024
PeerJ sells to T&F, Springer Nature sells off AJE (and their new AI tool Curie), Congress puts OSTP on the hook for a financial analysis of the Nelson Memo, Jisc’s long transition, and the year in review at eLife & cOAlition S
Issue 62 • February 2024
An impressive rat brings research integrity to the news. What will US open data policies really cost? RELX’s balance sheet shows strong results. A court rules against authors in an AI fair use case. New Clarivate changes, gaming Google Scholar is easier than ever, and physics societies join forces.