Rick Anderson is University Librarian at Brigham Young University. He has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno, and as Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah. He has written three books on librarianship and scholarly communication and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen. He has served as president of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), and is a recipient of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. In 2015 he was elected President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He serves on the advisory boards of numerous publishers and organizations including biorXiv, Taylor & Francis, JSTOR, and Oxford University Press.
Rick Anderson revisits a 2020 post: One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?
Earlier this month we asked the community which organizations they volunteer for and why. Today it’s the Chefs’ turn!
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?
In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else.
With the Omicron surge in the rearview mirror, our Chefs reflect on returning to the workplace.
Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.
An interview with Julian Wilson about IOP Publishing’s new transformative agreement with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.
I realized recently that I’ve been organizing formal debates at conferences for some time now. This has led me to reflect on why I do that.