- experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review The rise and fall of peer review by Adam Mastroianni (2022)
One of the most beautiful things is how they paywall even public domain works. E.g. here: www.nature.com/articles/119558a0 was published in 1927, and is therefore in the public domain as of 2023. But it is of course just paywalled as usual throughout 2023. There is zero incentive for them to open anything up.
What they don't tell you about academic publishing by Andy Stapleton (2021)
Source. The publishing scandal happening right now by Andy Stapleton (2023)
Source. TOOD get the name of the academic who quit.