Category Archives: Open Access

In my post The Cost of Knowledge from a long time ago I did not know the profits of De Gruyter but just made a guess by comparing the prices they charge. In an interview with Sven Fund by Richard … Continue reading →

One of the established publishers has been taking harsher steps lately against losing control over the dissemination of papers published in their journals: Elsevier started to send takedown notices to sites where they find papers whose copyright they own. There’s … Continue reading →

In an earlier comment to a post by Frank I mentioned that a lot of German universities have funds for author pays models. I now tried to get money from our fund for a paper that will appear in Language. … Continue reading →

There is this new crowd funding service unglue.it that can be used to make books freely available under a creative commons license.  People can wish for books. Right owners can start ungluing campaigns and then all those who wished for … Continue reading →

The Huffington Post was running an article in which they noted that the textbook price hike since 1978 by far outperforms the increase in consumer prices: Whereas the former stands at 812 percent, the consumer price index increased about 250 … Continue reading →