Recommendation During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical researchers shared information to speed up innovation, demonstrating the vital importance of making scholarly research open access, says John Willinsky. Yet despite widespread agreement from publishers, researchers and librarians about the benefits of open access, there’s no clear path forward. Willinsky calls out publishers for engaging in monopolistic pricing …
Recommendation People typically study technology from a scientific lens. Now it’s time to broaden the scope of technology studies, says Donald Clark, treating it as a discipline, like psychology or sociology. Clark traces how technological innovation has dramatically shaped and influenced the trajectory of human evolution. He takes readers on a journey spanning millennia, beginning …