I do not get it. Why should I (or my institution) pay for this? Why isn't it possible to read the normal PDFs online? Why do they put the cut out figures into their PDFs?Why this small font?
I guess the idea is that they want to sell the physical book to me. But I have a complete room full of books. I do not want any further paper books. I want nice looking searchable PDFs on my hard disk.
And why can't I download the book in one go? #OUP is really unsexy as a publisher.

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697922.003.0005

Bloddy hell! This is a long time without copy right restrictions. Russel 1905. And they still want to get 40€ from me. This is robbery. By a charity company like #OUP.

New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism https://ideophone.org/oxford-university-press-is-going-all-in-on-surveillance-capitalism/

In which I show that OUP doesn't trust authors with offprints of their own publicly funded work & thinks scholarly exchange is piracy while at the same time selling out to AI slop producer OpenAI #academicchatter #OxfordUniversityPress #OUP #academicwriting

Looking for a book on #socialism in the UK on #amazon (but not to purchase from there, rather to borrow it from the #library, whose own search engine could be better).

The first item returned was the #OUP "A very short introduction to..." but the next items were:

Amusing to see how an algorithm can be biased in favour of the views (no doubt) of the #billionaire boss.

Here are the three main components (and three subsidiary components) of the reason-responsive consequentialist theory of rational inquiry for bounded agents:

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/07/03/inquiry-under-bounds-part-3-a-theory-of-rational-inquiry.aspx

“…the program may be much less revisionary than feared.”

– David Thorstad on his #free #book, Inquiry Under Bounds (#OUP 2024).

(Stay tuned for tomorrow's, which post gives arguments for this view.)

This is big news:

OUP Launches Classical Chinese Literature Series

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=4373

1/ #BrainCommunication is a #nonprofit #APC-based #OpenACcess #society journal from #OUP. Here it explains how it spends its APC income.
https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/5/5/fcad220/7256007

Hot off the press in #DSH journal at #OUP:

"Revealing ‘Invisible’ Poetry by W. H. Auden through Computer Vision" - the @AMP_OeAW team's collaboration with Computer Vision Lab of #TUWien

http://bit.ly/auden_computervision

#DH #DigitalHumanities #ComputerVision #OpenAccess @ACDHCH_OeAW @fwf

Google Scholar told me about a paper citing my work. I tried to check but hit a paywall. It is the encyclopedia I am supposed to contribute to. My motivation decreased considerably ....

#OUP

The British Journal of Dermatology just moved from #Wiley to #OUP. As part of the move, it's adding plain language summaries (#PLS) and allowing authors to retain #copyright in their articles.
https://academic.oup.com/bjd/article/188/1/1/6795460

The journal remains #hybrid, not full #openaccess. But note that the key #RightsRetention step was voluntarily adopted by a #society (British Association of Dermatologists) and a #UniversityPress. Kudos to them both.

During #aha23 and through Jan 19, #OUP titles are 40% off using code EXAHA23:
https://global.oup.com/academic/promo/exaha23/?cc=us&lang=en&promocode=EXAHA23

That means "The Amazing Iroquois" is on sale now for $21. Huzzah!
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-amazing-iroquois-and-the-invention-of-the-empire-state-9780197578223?prevSortField=5&sortField=4&resultsPerPage=20&start=0&lang=en&cc=us