Stuck on a tarmac due to shut-down related transit delays? We have you covered. A new issue of The Brief is out! It is not at all Brief, however. It is not our fault. A lot happened this month. www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ga...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

As a member of the editorial board of CMS, I can only say “Amen”

The NIH *accelerates* the Nelson Memo while the US government sends vaguely threatening letters to several journals. Meanwhile, China enters phase II of its journals Excellence Action Plan. All in the latest issue of The Brief (@brieferyet.bsky.social) www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ze...

@lkric.bsky.social describes the book distribution system (TLDR: it's complicated!) in our third #NISOPlus25 pre-conference of the day, Assessing OA Ebook Usage. niso.plus/baltimore/

New from @brieferyet.bsky.social. In re-writing this 6 times to keep up with the madness, we have focused on just the chaos related to publishing. And there is a lot. CDC retractions and the likely death of the Nelson Memo for starters www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ch...

This poor mom is dealing with her son who believes that 1990 was nearly 35 years ago. Our education system is in tatters when kids don’t know how to do basic math. 1990 was 11 years ago.

100% agree. For me, writing is how I go about thinking about a topic. Using an AI is more like reading someone else’s thoughts than developing your own.

100% written by actual humans. The Brief is the world's best newsletter (for those interested in professional and scholarly communication) www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/un...

We take longer to write an issue of The Brief than Korea takes to have, and then repel, a coup. www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/un...

I made a starter pack of people in #scholarly #publishing - I'm sure I missed lots of excellent people but there's a pretty smart bunch of bleeters–skeeters right here 👇 go.bsky.app/FanaExt

The Brief @brieferyet.bsky.social is now here on Bluesky! I assume that is why everyone signed up to this site all of sudden? 🤣 Also in handy email format: 👉 www.ce-strategy.com/subscribe/

The Nov. issue of The Brief is coming together. Topics to include: - The fate of the OSTP "Nelson Memo" after the 2024 election - Momentum at Bluesky (hello!) - eLife loses its impact factor - C&E worked on a new report from MIT Press on the future of OA 👉 Get Briefed: www.ce-strategy.com/subscribe/

We are getting questions about what the change in administrations means for the "Nelson Memo" and related federal agency OA policy. While we are monitoring the situation closely (and scenario planning with clients) the short answer is "no one knows"

Really happy to see the report we helped put together for @mitpress.bsky.social on the workshop we held meant to build a research agenda for advancing open science. Press release here with a link to the report and videos of each session www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Wow—everyone just showed up all at once here. Let’s get this party started!

The perfect ending to a horrible media empire www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

After 64 issues I have finally made the ending quote in The Brief. I consider this a career milestone 🤣 www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ca...

99% informative. 1% snark. The March issue is out. www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/pe...

Media businesses just don't scale. They scale a little in an old-school way (you can combine back office functions and whatnot) but they don't scale like tech businesses. Vice, much like WeWork, pretended to be a tech business. Reality bites. www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/m...

I somehow got on the mailing list of service called "BookRetreats" where you book a yoga retreat or whatever. Every time I get an email from them I think it is a service where you go and read books for a week somewhere and am all like "oooh, I want to do that" and then am deeply disappointed

Any time someone suggests there is a 4th dimensional master plan regarding the former Twitter I'm reminded that fiction does some people a mis-service, because it trains them to believe there's an actual storyline when in fact much of real life is people trying to build wings after they've jumped

Annual Reviews buys Charleston Hub, Charleston Conference, Against the Grain www.annualreviews.org/pb-assets/as...

Big moves at Wiley today www.marketwatch.com/story/wiley-...

Science Fiction Locations Plotted With Real Space Data laughingsquid.com/sci-fi-locat...

One thing they don't tell you about being a business owner is the number of "lead gen" spam offers you will receive daily. How many businesses are going "hmm, if only we had some rando firm that that knows nothing about our business sending us 'leads' that would be a big help"?

USDA post-Nelson Memo Public Access Plan has been released. For publications, it appears to be their Holdren Memo plan with zero embargo. Looks like ORCID iDs will be required. https://www.nal.usda.gov/services/public-access

Seriously.

I like this site better than the others. X is increasingly noise. Mastadon’s UX seems designed to discourage use. Post’s lack of standard fonts makes it look like you are reading ransom notes. Threads is nice but too celeb oriented and is just Facebook under the hood. I wish more people were here