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Helping Researchers Communicate Their Findings to the World: An Interview with Emma Feloy of Research Outreach

Research Outreach is a young company that helps researchers make their work more easily intelligible to a lay audience. Editorial Director Emma Feloy answers some questions about how their service works.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Marketing Amidst a Pandemic

Our Chefs reflect on considerations for marketing and marketers amid the pandemic.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Alison Mudditt, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Charlie Rapple, Rick Anderson, David Crotty
  • Mar 30, 2020
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Measuring the Success of Transformative Agreements

I asked twelve publisher/customer pairs how they will measure the success of their transformative deals five years from now. The responses were very interesting.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 12, 2020
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?

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?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 25, 2020
  • 53 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

ACM’s New Open Access Agreements: A Q&A with Scott Delman

A conversation with Scott Delman of ACM about the publisher’s recently-announced deal with four major US research universities.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 10, 2020
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

The Kitchen at the APE: Five Chefs Share Takeaways from the 2020 Academic Publishing in Europe Conference

Here are some takeaways from last week’s Academic Publishing in Europe meeting, from Chefs who were there (either physically or virtually).

  • By Rick Anderson, Ann Michael, Roger C. Schonfeld, Michael Clarke, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 23, 2020
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2019 Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year. Today brings Part 2 of the list.

  • By Jill O'Neill, Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf, Charlie Rapple, Todd A Carpenter, Judy Luther, Angela Cochran
  • Nov 27, 2019
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 13 mins

The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement

A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder @rickypo offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of #openaccess and the open access movement.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 25, 2019
  • 33 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature

How many articles from predatory journals are being cited in the legitimate (especially medical) literature? Some disturbing findings.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Oct 28, 2019
  • 51 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Whither (or Whether) the Monograph? Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson Discuss Some Recent Research

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson discuss some implications of a recent research report on the future of the scholarly monograph.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 17, 2019
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

So What’s the DEAL?: An Interview with Springer Nature’s Dagmar Laging

An interview with Springer Nature’s Dagmar Laging about the emerging transformative open access agreement with Germany’s Projekt DEAL.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 26, 2019
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

UC Davis Experiments with a New Textbook Model: An Interview with Jason Lorgan

An interview with Jason Lorgan, executive director of campus stores at @UCDavis, about the university’s innovative new textbook-affordability program.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 4, 2019
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions

Proposing a model for thinking about the interactions of rigor, cogency, accessibility, significance, openness, and impact in scholarly quality.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 13, 2019
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

They Know We Know They Know: Does Sci-Hub Affect Library Subscriptions?

So does Sci-Hub lead libraries to cancel journals, or doesn’t it? Maybe the answer isn’t a simple yes or no.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 3, 2019
  • 68 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The University of California and Elsevier: An Interview with Jeff MacKie-Mason

Rick Anderson interviews Jeff MacKie-Mason about the University of California system’s recent break with Elsevier.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 6, 2019
  • 38 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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