The Oberlin Group — a large consortium of the top-ranked liberal arts colleges across the USA — is pledging $1 million to Lever Press to “publish 60 new [platinum] open-access titles by the end of 2020”, presumably journals.

The New York Public Library has released scans of 180,000 public domain items in their collections. “No permission required [for use]. No restrictions on use… go forth and re-use!” Nice, but actual access is currently rather clunky. Seemingly only via a gee-whizzy visualization tool that never stops its “Loading…”, so I couldn’t actually test what they have on offer.

Update: low-res only, access to hi-res versions is paid.

Boeing has sponsored a new 4,500 issue free archive of Aviation Week & Space Technology.

A worrying development for precision search. It appears that Microsoft Bing has stopped respecting “quote marks” for phrases.

Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016. An update on the now-rolling main list, and links to newer lists for hijacked journals and for dubious purveyors of metrics.