
Why are Taylor Swift and academics all in the same boat? And why is she more fortunate?
Last week a blog post explained why academics have lost control of their own papers, and what they can do about it. This might seem a rather limited…

Rights retention: one small step for academics, one giant leap for global access to knowledge
A few weeks ago, we wondered whether academic publishers might try to shut down the amazing General Index of scientific journals that Carl Malamud has created. There’s a…