Arthur Boston

Open Access discourse is just a global community passing "wait, no, not like that" back and forth forever. (782 words / October 3, 2023)

There is a huge resource of human energy to be tapped into that will strengthen the scholarly ecosystem. (3,455 words / April 26, 2024)

What if research funders prioritized the deposit of preprints (and let go of immediate open access for peer-reviewed articles) as suggested by Plan-U? (1,766 words / January 26, 2024)

Reports that lead to retractions should receive formal credit. (613 words / May 10, 2024)

What separates Peer Review™ from a bottle of sparkling ethics and integrity checks? (616 words / May 15, 2024)

Legal scholarly publishing is full of natural experiments in scholarly communication. (2,685 words / June 27, 2024)

JSTOR has stumbled into one of the best working solutions for providing access for non-affiliated users to access the backlog of scholarly content. It’s not perfect, but it’s a great starting point. (861 words / November 15, 2023)

Two walls do not a full room make. Two more '-walled' concepts to consider. (773 words / June 13, 2024)

While OA has more color, gem, and metal variants than the Pokémon series, I want even more names for OA types. (743 words / August 30, 2023)

Getting into the spirit of #PeerReviewWeek, I invite us all to spend some time thinking about peer-review less like a monolithic “yes, this was peer reviewed” / “no, this was not peer reviewed” binary. (651 words / September 28, 2023)

Sometimes the piling of cynicisms makes it difficult to meaningfully get on with the workday. (691 words / September 28, 2023)