The politics of knowledge infrastructure is no longer an abstract concern; it is policy. Publishers and platform providers are squarely in the crosshairs of this huge shift in legislation and policymaking.
A piece on this in Scholarly Futures last week: scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/from-infra...
The politics of knowledge infrastructure is no longer an abstract concern; it is policy. Publishers and platform providers are squarely in the crosshairs of this huge shift in legislation and policymaking.
A piece on this in Scholarly Futures last week: scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/from-infra...
The ERA Act – research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/sup...
Representations from:
OPERAS – operas.hypotheses.org/files/2026/0...
ScienceEurope – www.scienceeurope.org/our-resource...
LIBER – libereurope.eu/article/libe...
ESFRI – www.esfri.eu/latest-esfri...
YERUN – yerun.eu/2026/01/yeru...
The European Research Area (ERA) Act will create a European framework that will transform copyright, research assessment, and data-sharing. It will govern how research is published, accessed, and evaluated. If you're involved in scholarly communications, you need to give this Act your attention.
The European Research Area (ERA) Act will create a European framework that will transform copyright, research assessment, and data-sharing. It will govern how research is published, accessed, and evaluated. If you're involved in scholarly communications, you need to give this Act your attention.
I saw that Marjane Satrapi died aged only 56. I only know her as the author of the Persepolis graphic novel (and the subsequent film). So I searched for more over lunch, and her family said that she had "died of sadness" over her husband's death. What a world.