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Irony alert: Springer Nature’s Journal of the Knowledge Economy retracts 113 (!) articles from a special issue, for “compromised editorial handling,” etc. Underscores one truth: special issue grift helps drive the journal-knowledge economy https://link.springer.com/journal/13132/volumes-and-issues/17-1/supplement

Journal of the Knowledge Economy

Journal of the Knowledge Economy is a multidisciplinary publication focused on the dynamics of knowledge creation, diffusion, and application across the ...

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Jeff Pooley Feb 22

Cutting, lovely sentence-level writing in this Andrew O’Hagan essay on the Murdochs https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/bonfire-of-the-murdochs-gabriel-sherman-book-review

How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News

Andrew O’Hagan reviews “Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family—and the World,” by Gabriel Sherman.

The New Yorker

Jeff Pooley Feb 14

Open Access Tracking Project Feb 13

BOAI Celebrates Anniversary and Reflects on Progress of First Year as an Organization – Budapest Open Access Initiative https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-celebrates-anniversary-and-reflects-on-progress-of-first-year-as-an-organization/

BOAI Celebrates Anniversary and Reflects on Progress of First Year as an Organization – Budapest Open Access Initiative

Jeff Pooley Feb 10

Gary Hall Feb 9

The print copes of Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal arrived today:

https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

The #book is published by mediastudies.press, and is available #openaccess under the CC4r (Collective Conditions for Re-Use commitment), so you don’t need to pay to download and read a copy.

It's also feels particularly timely in light of recent discussions around #class and #representation including the Class Ceiling report that came out the other week:

https://www.riseassociates.co.uk/downloads/ClassCeiling-Digital.pdf

And the #BBC review by Anne Morrison and Chris Banatvala, which highlight how it remains London-centric and skewed towards #middleclass

https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/thematic-review-of-portrayal-and-representation.pdf

#culturewar #classwar #ClassCeiling #DefundCulture
#ArtsAndCulture #WorkingClass
#media #london #universities
#he #academic #academia

Jeff Pooley Jan 28

Waiting for an open infrastructure collective @oatp @investinopen https://www.jeffpooley.com/2026/01/waiting-for-an-open-infrastructure-collectivce/

Waiting for an Open Infrastructure Collective | Jeff Pooley

Jeff Pooley Jan 28

Ross Mounce Jan 22

Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.

ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/

see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.

#Elsevier #RELX #ICE #complicity

Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

Jeff Pooley Jan 25

Robin DeRosa Jan 25

Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs https://www.emorywheel.com/article/2026/01/emory-libraries-cancel-elsevier-journals-due-to-rising-journal-costs

#OA #OpenAccess

Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs

The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.

Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs - The Emory Wheel

Jeff Pooley Jan 25

John Moltz Jan 25

On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. https://www.theverge.com/news/867429/tim-cook-andy-jassy-white-house-melania-doc

Tim Cook, Andy Jassy, and AMD CEO Lisa Su are at the White House for a VIP screening of the Melania doc.

The Verge

Jeff Pooley Jan 25

Claes de Vreese ☑️Jan 25

This one is making the rounds.

But after a tense 🇪🇺 vs 🇺🇸 week it is needed.

Healthier, less poor, fairer, more equitable, safer.

🇪🇺 not perfect. But pretty good!

Jeff Pooley Jan 16

Björn Brembs Jan 15

Procurement Before Prestige: How audit rules and public #infrastructure could break #science’s #publishing monopolies.

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/

An English version of my post in German for the Verfassungsblog:

https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/

#academicchatter #research

Procurement Before Prestige

How audit rules and public infrastructure could break science’s publishing monopolies. An English version of my post for the Verfassungsblog from December 19, 2025. Scientific journals that feel straight out of 1665, prices that could come from a MrBeast meet-and-greet, […] <a class="more-link" href="https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/">↓ Read the rest of this entry...</a>

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