PRCA

• No Transformative Agreements, Just Transformation

  Alicia Salaz, vice provost and university librarian at the University of Oregon, writes in Katina about the failures of both the APC model and the so-called “transformative agreements” for open access journal publishing. She argues that universities need to invest in new mission-driven, academy-owned alternatives for knowledge sharing — like Knowledge Commons. As she notes,…

• Publishing Workflow vs. Business Model

  

  Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash A few days ago a colleague alerted me to a thread on Bluesky that raised serious questions about the PRC publishing model, or Publish-Review-Curate, which is in active exploration and development by a range of open access repositories and publishers, including the folks behind the PRC Alliance. I’m very…