Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, This week’s newsletter is presented in a slightly different format. I’ve been very busy with work and personal commitments and haven’t had the time to do a ’normal’ newsletter. What follows are the title and a brief excerpt from some of the stories that I’ve read over the past few weeks. None of the text was written by me. Hopefully it will help you to get a quick overview of what’s happened in scholarly publishing recently. News Update...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, Last week I linked through to an article by Eric Helman entitled AI bots are destroying Open Access. Ian Mulvany, who leads the technology team at the BMJ, included this quote from one his colleagues in a recent blog post: Unfortunately, bot traffic on our journal websites has now surpassed real user traffic. These aggressive bots are attempting to crawl entire websites within a short period, overloading our web servers and negatively...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, You may have noticed that I’ve retired the Opinion section in this newsletter. There are a number of reasons for this. First, most people are more interested in news than opinion, judging from the click-through rates. Second, the newsletter was getting unwieldy. Third, reading tens of opinions articles every week became a bit too much for me personally. With that piece of housekeeping out of the way, here’s a summary of what’s happened in...