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Publishers Announce a Major New Service to Plug Leakage

Today, a group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem. This new service shows that publishers are finally beginning to address digital strategy in an environment that has steadily eroded their ability to monetize the value they create. Does it go far enough to reset the competitive environment?

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.

Is PLOS Running Out Of Time? Financial Statements Suggest Urgency To Innovate

The publisher is committed to financial sustainability. How it achieves it is an open question.

Historians Respond to Plan S: Open Access vs OA Policies Redux

For years humanists have been pointing to the real advantages of openness and accessibility, and the real costs of rigid, monolithic open access policies. The Royal Historical Society studied the landscape for Plan S compliance and the implications for UK historians.

Can Geowalling Save Open Access?

Geowalling open content is proposed yet again. As a thought experiment, @lisalibrarian explores what Plan S principles would be compromised by this tactic.

Elsevier CEO Kumsal Bayazit Debuts at Charleston

Elsevier’s new CEO Kumsal Bayazit’s debuted in front of a librarian audience at last week’s Charleston Conference. Analysis from Roger Schonfeld.

Guest Post — Transparency: What Can One Learn from a Trove of Invoices?

A new dataset from the Gates Foundation offers insights into author choices and APC pricing.

Open is Eating the World: What Source Code and Science Have in Common

In 2011, Marc Andreessen said that software is eating the world. Since then, publishers have embraced technology. Specifically, the internet – an infrastructure and platform set dominated by open source software. As some academics start to see open source as necessary part of modern, open scholarship. do publisher need to seriously consider changing how we innovate?

Leveraging a Transformative Agreement to Incentivize Funder Spend

Can a library/publisher transformative agreement attract funder spend?
@lisalibrarian unpacks the SAGE/UNC-Chapel Hill pilot program.

Ask The Chefs: Beyond the APC

It’s Open Access week so this month we asked the chefs: What’s next for OA? What lies beyond the APC as a funding model? Let us know your thoughts!

Guest Post — The Future of Open Access Business Models: APCs Are Not the Only Way

Highwire’s Byron Russell reports on this year’s OASPA Conference, and future paths to sustainable open access business models.

Guest Post — Crossref at a Crossroads: All Roads Lead to Crossref

Amy Brand from MIT Press and the Crossref Board of Directors offers her thought on this crucial moment in the evolution of Crossref and the scholarly communications infrastructure.

Open Access Books: The First 100 Books from Johns Hopkins University Project

100 out of print books are now Open Access, the first of 200 in a project from JHU Press on the MUSE Open platform. What are the goals of this project and the lessons learned thusfar?

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.

Guest Post — How the American Astronomical Society Acquired Sky & Telescope Magazine

A glimpse behind the scenes as a research society added a popular magazine to its publishing portfolio.

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@JosephJEsposito @acochran12733 @kanderson 3/3 And there's also, of course, the simple frustration about growth outstripping budget. No matter how urgently a new Nature title may be needed by the research community, that doesn't make the money to pay for it magically appear in our budgets.

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@JosephJEsposito 2/2 ... it's also true that research investment, specialization, and research output are growing tremendously across the globe. This surely explains at least a significant part of the growth in journal publishing. How much is organic & how much is opportunistic? Very hard to say.

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@JosephJEsposito 1/2 I think this attitude arises largely from suspicion of publishers' motives--that they're "growing" by creating new journals not because new journals are needed, but purely for opportunistic purposes. That's not an entirely unreasonable suspicion. However...

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