Fake philosophical paper lands cosmic joke
Somewhere in the latest issue of Badiou Studies, a multilingual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the thinking of the philosopher Alain Badiou, lives an article entitled, “Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive… Read more »
Lever Press is making academic publishing free (for at least five years)
As regular MobyLives readers know, academic publishing is an expensive mess—one that’s seen protest after protest, ineptitude, corruption … and more corruption. No, it’s not a pretty picture, that ivory… Read more »
Goldsmiths launches new university press
Goldsmiths College is launching a new and ‘inventive’ academic publisher named The Goldsmiths Press. Goldsmiths, which is located in South London, is part of University of London and is already… Read more »
California passes first state-level open access law
There was one happy moment of bipartisan achievement this fall, before the Republicans swept the Senate: on September 26th, a bill co-written by Assemblyman Brian Nestande (R–Palm Desert) and Assemblyman… Read more »
Walker Evans’s photos and 170K more digitized by the Yale Project
This is huge: the biggest photo collection in American history is now fully searchable and available as an interactive map through Photogrammar, a digital project from Yale University. Aside from… Read more »
10 ways to celebrate Open Access week
This week is the eighth annual Open Access Week, and that means confetti! No, actually, it means something much better than that: a week of discussions about the great and… Read more »
The numbers they didn’t want you to see: study finds that academic publishers basically charge whatever they feel like
It’s been understood for quite a while now that the prices big academic publishers charge universities and libraries for access to academic journals bear little to no relationship to the… Read more »
Report that criticizes major academic publishers is censored, and you’ll never guess by who
Taylor & Francis, a major academic publisher, is facing controversy over their censorship of a series of papers on academic publishing that appeared in the journal Prometheus: Critical Studies in… Read more »
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University speaks out on Elsevier and Open Access
One of the most significant indications that academic publishing is a broken system is the fact that, periodically, major institutions and academics—secure and well-funded and with nothing in particular to… Read more »
Elsevier loves Open Access, especially when they can still charge for articles
Academic publisher Elsevier, whose various malfeasances we’ve covered here, here, and here, is at it again. It turns out that they’ve been charging for access to Open Access articles. Furthermore,… Read more »