Meanjin mumblings: With the closure of Australia’s second-oldest literary publication, Meanjin, a new FAQ has been posted on the journal’s website by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP). It states that all content will be made “freely accessible” from February 2026 and that the “website will remain live”.
This would have been a win for accessibility and preservation a decade ago, but in the age of AI — which can scrape the internet and steal data to train its algorithms — it raises ethical questions for the authors behind the work.