So, eLife is changing its peer-review process: eLife’s peer-review process is changing. From January 2023, eLife will no longer make accept/reject decisions after peer review. Instead, every preprint sent for…
Read moreA set of European research funders calling itself “Coalition S” has banded together to forbid pure toll-access and hybrid publication for its grantees. The thinkpiece engine is revving up, so…
Read moreThe Loon saw a hapless researcher on Twitter today, wondering what to do about a journal that asked them to insert sixty (60!) citations to itself into their manuscript as…
Read moreProjekt DEAL has announced that it is done trying to squeeze an acceptable deal out of Elsevier, at least for now. Elsevier claims not to be done with Projekt DEAL…
Read moreThe Loon has seen a number of librarians reacting to the news coming out of the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, California, etc. by psyching themselves out of thinking they could accomplish…
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