ORCID iDOA books being reprinted under CC BY license
I have to admit, today, that I was wrong about the risk of others reprinting open-access monographs produced under a Creative Commons license. An outfit call...
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The social network of the London Review of Books
I have, this afternoon (on a day off – I know, I know) been playing around with the LRB archive, looking for fun patterns in the chain of “who reviews whom”....
The Publisher's Association's impact assessment on OA is pretty much as you'd expect
The Publisher’s Association has commissioned a report that seems to be their latest attempt at painting open access to research as economically damaging to t...
My resignation as an external examiner at the University of Leicester in the wake of proposed cuts to English
Today I have written to the University of Leicester tendering my resignation as an external examiner.
The Open Library of Humanities and Brexit: VAT Position
This morning I had to have a call with our accountants that I was somewhat dreading: does Brexit have tax implications for the Open Library of Humanities, a ...
On healthcare economics and valuing lives
This week opened with the distressing news that Lord Sumption, supposedly someone whose judgement is entirely sound, having been a Supreme Court justice, had...
How much optimism?
I am due up for vaccination in the very near future. This is good news. But it’s tempered.