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Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, My family and I are heading off on holiday tomorrow and I haven’t packed yet, so this week’s newsletter follows the digest pattern of The Jist. There’s so much I’d like to say about the lead news story, but I should probably hold myself back and pack some socks instead. Anyway, here are the headlines. News NIH to crack down on excessive publisher fees for publicly funded research The current landscape of scholarly publishing presents...
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, This week I’m trialling The Jist, which will be the free version of the newsletter when Journalology transitions to a paid subscription model later this summer. There’s no full-length Journalology this week. I’ve been using the time I saved to work on migrating Journalology to a new technology platform, which offers group subscriptions. It’s a fiddly process that’s taking some time to set up. If you would prefer to receive a digest of...
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, On July 1 the new NIH open access policy will kick in, mandating the deposition of the author-accepted manuscript with no embargo. It’s not clear at this point how the major publishers will respond; there haven’t been any formal announcements, as far as I can tell. Perhaps they’re waiting until July 1 to update their policy pages. The best resource on publishers’ policies regarding green OA that I’ve found is hosted by the PennState...