Looking back to remember the importance of raw curiosity, unstructured collaboration, and the freedom to explore the world. Originally published in Harpers, issue 179, in June/November 1939.
🎧 The publishing academic complex is out of control, and current policies will only open future publications and not the backlog of research. How do you change a system which has so much social and economic power over scholarship?
by Andrea E. Pia, Simon Batterbury, Agnieszka Joniak-LĂĽthi, Marcel LaFlamme, Gerda Wielander, Filippo M. Zerilli, Melissa Nolas, Jon Schubert, and 5 more
With a number of recommendations toward the commonification of open access
by Gabriel Stein, Travis Rich, Zach Verdin, and Catherine Ahearn
The dominant commercial models in scholarly publishing aren’t serving the academy or humanity well — extracting enormous profits from a mostly publicly-funded endeavor. But we have a window to stand up and support an alternative.
