An open-access academic’s shot across the bow of publishers
Nick Montfort, MIT Assistant Professor of Digital Media, has publicly announced that he is refusing to participate in peer-review processes for non-open-access journals (hat tip): With regard to your request, I cannot agree to review for your journal right now. If [it] becomes an open access journal, I will be very glad to review articles […]
Education stories of 2007
The following is my personal list of top U.S. education stories from 2007. No Child Left Behind continues to show little evidence of improving schools. The release of the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress scores may have been spun faster than an Elvis single, but they provide no evidence that NCLB is dramatically improving […]
License glasses
Ju Honisch responded to the idea of Egypt’s copyrighting antiquities with a wonderful comment that reminds me of Andre Codrescu: I think soon somebody will invent license glasses. They will be a little like blinkers and will only allow you to see those things you have paid your share of license fees for. There will […]