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The TA deals were always a compromise, never meant to be permanent. cOAlition S takes a big step here in voicing that reality. coalition-s.org/coalition-s-co… #OpenAccess #SciComm #research

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How can scholarly publishers influence public policy? How do they adapt if they can't? And how does anything at all get done in Washington DC? On June 1 I'll moderate a panel at the SSP annual meeting answering those questions and many more. Hope you can join! #ssp2023

Excited to join this ALPSP webinar on June 21! #scholcomm

That’s two SSP keynotes in a row (Shermann Dilla Thomas last year and Elisabeth Bik today) to point out that removing paywalls and supporting open science and open access would make their valuable work a heck of a lot easier. #ssp2023

Metadata the Musical, Schmetadata the Musical #ssp2023

More concurrent sessions need musical interludes. There, I said it. #SSP2023

Excited to be part of this webinar! Watch as I switch between my bibliometrics and public policy hats with (I hope) the greatest of ease.

I’ve been on Twitter long enough to know that flame wars get you nowhere. But let’s be clear: this website is the worst of our industry. It’s all heat and no light. And if the owners won’t reveal themselves we should all speak out against it.

There is an effort afoot to block or undermine the OSTP guidance; it’s happening entirely behind the scenes and manifesting itself in appropriations language that has been neither publicly debated nor publicly supported. Read more in my Scholarly Kitchen piece for Frontiers

All I did was ask them to show their work. Predatory Journals

So, Predatory Journals, you’re saying that Elsevier and Wiley, among many others, are predatory publishers. Quite the accusation. I wonder how they’ll respond.

Our head of US public affairs Tom Ciavarella in Inside Higher Ed. Who’s afraid of Open Science? The public pays for billions of dollars of scientific research. The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy wants to give them full access to its results. Are legacy commercial interests putting on the brakes?

It's snowing. On Halloween. Again. I'm begging you, City of Chicago, ease up. I'm not a real Midwesterner yet. I don't have an emergency bottle of ranch or Malort.

It's fitting that TIME, which removed its digital paywall earlier this year, chose to publish this Frontiers op-ed from Dr. Julia Kostova on White House Office of Science & Technology Policy public access guidelines and the Cancer Moonshot. #openaccess #openscience