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Guest Post: Plan S and Humanities Publishing

Jasmin Lange from Brill suggests a path forward for open access in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Guest Post: Do Authors Have Any Power Over Publishers?

Shaun Khoo questions whether authors will exercise their market power to put downward pressure on article processing charges.

Guest Post — Open Research in Practice: Moving from Why to How?

This guest post about training and other resources for open research is authored by Fiona Murphy, Nicky Agate, Amy Price, and Stephanie Hagstrom, members of the Steering Committee for Force 11 Scholarly Communications Institute.

Guest Post: How to Win the Internet, Digital Single Market Edition: A Ten Step Program

Roy Kaufman of Copyright Clearance Center lays out an argument for a more robust and expansive use of licenses by rightsholders, especially in light of recent developments in the EU.

Guest Post: STEM Fellowship — Providing High School and Undergraduate Students Opportunities to Publish

High School and Undergrad student conduct research all the time, and yet student run journals can come and go. Today’s guest post highlights the STEM Fellowship, which provides a sustainable support structure for student lead journals as well as challenges to inspire research outside the box.

Guest Post: The Surprisingly Low Burden of Subscriptions at Institutions

Analyzing subscription expenditures at the institutional level suggests that for US institutions, subscriptions represent a very slight burden on university budgets, while delivering value to many stakeholders.

Guest Post – A Study of Commenting on PLOS Articles

Despite the near consensus about the popularity (or lack thereof) of commenting on academic articles, there is surprisingly little publicly available data relating to commenting rates. To address this, a team of academics from the Universities of Sheffield and Loughborough have recently published research into article commenting on PLOS journals. Simon Wakeling, Stephen Pinfield and Peter Willett report here on their findings.

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