Off for the Long Weekend

In the US, this coming Monday is the Labor Day holiday, meant to honor the American labor movement, and the contributions that workers have made to the prosperity of the country. It also unofficially marks the end of summer (though given climate change, we should now all be past outdated rules about wearing white clothing after Labor Day). We’re off for the long weekend with posts to resume on Tuesday. As summer draws to a close, and we try to ease back into the daily grind, I’ll leave you with the words of the great Elvis Costello — “Oh I know it don’t thrill you, I hope it don’t kill you.”

David Crotty

@davidacrotty

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.