“Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private commodity to be sold at exorbitant profits. … [Worse,] Elsevier has sued Sci-Hub, a website that provides free, easy access to 67 million research articles. … If we diversify our thinking away from the superficial field of journals and articles, and instead focus on the power of networked technologies, we can see all sorts of innovative models for scholarly communication.”
Tag: 07.03.18
Police Union Accuses SC High School Reading List Of Being ‘Anti-Cop’
“The Fraternal Order of Police [lodge for metro Charleston] is objecting to two books on Wando High School’s freshman [summer] reading list” – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and All American Boys by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds, both about police violence against black teens. Said the president of the union local, “It’s almost an indoctrination of distrust of police, and we’ve got to put a stop to that.”
LACMA’s New Building Is Running Late, Even As Costs Keep Rising
“The [Peter] Zumthor project is about six months behind schedule. The process, including building permits and entitlements, is taking longer than expected, [museum director Michael] Govan says. And the museum’s $650-million fundraising campaign, he adds, is ‘in pace with the project.’ Which is to say: going slowly.”
Sascha Radetsky Named Artistic Director Of ABT Studio Company
“[American Ballet Theatre] made the announcement yesterday, and it makes sense — Radetsky has served as a ballet master for the group since 2016, as well as a teacher for the main company. He succeeds Kate Lydon, who is leaving her post to direct the dance program at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire.”
Movie Theatres Roll Out New Subscription Plans
AMC Theaters, the largest multiplex chain in the United States, rolled out its own MoviePass-style service on Tuesday. For $20 a month, subscribers to AMC Stubs A-List can see up to three movies a week. Also last week, the Alamo Drafthouse chain said it would begin testing a service called Season Pass that would offer unlimited movies for one monthly price.
Academic Publishing Is Broken. We Need A New System
A global community to coordinate and regain control – to develop a public open-access infrastructure – of research and scholarly communication for the public good is long overdue. The issues of governance and ownership of public research have never been clearer. Another isolated platform will simply replicate the problems of the current journal-based system, including the ‘publish or perish’ mentality that perverts the research process, and the anachronistic evaluation system based on corporate brands.
ICA Boston Opens Huge New Satellite Museum Space In Working Shipyard
The Watershed, built in a then-condemned metal factory space that’s about a six-minute ferry ride from the Institute of Contemporary Art’s main building, opens to the public on July 4.