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Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research?

In support of Open Access Week, we asked our community how we can achieve equitable participation in Open Research. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow. Come share your views!

  • By Ann Michael, Alison Mudditt, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Preprints and Author Services: An Interview with Rachel Burley and Eugenie Regan

Springer Nature recently invested further in Research Square Company to become majority owner of this preprint and author services platform. Today, an interview with Rachel Burley and Eugenie Regan about what to expect.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 8, 2020
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

The 360° Competitor

The defining aspect of such an organization is that it operates as an industry nexus.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Oct 5, 2020
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — SME Market: The Billion Dollar Leak

William Park on the potential for publishers from the untapped $1-2 billion opportunity within the small to medium sized enterprises (SME) market.

  • By William Park
  • Sep 14, 2020
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Syndication Success: A Report from the Springer Nature and ResearchGate Pilot

Results of this partnership signal we should expect future expansion of content syndication.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 9, 2020
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — What are Academic Book Publishers for? Part 2

What have academic book publishers been for? And what might they be for, in the future? Part 2

  • By Richard Fisher
  • Sep 2, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — What are Academic Book Publishers for? Part 1

What have academic book publishers been for? And what might they be for, in the future?

  • By Richard Fisher
  • Sep 1, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next? 

How can collective action models to support open access, like Subscribe to Open, be applied to academic publishing? An interview with Raym Crow.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 27, 2020
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Revisiting: A Curious Blindness Among Peer Review Initiatives

Revisiting a 2018 post — Overlooking the need for paid Editorial Office staff hobbles many attempts to reform peer review.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Aug 19, 2020
  • 19 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

“Little Deals” Everywhere: Is Demand-driven Collection Development Catching Fire?

As the big deal falls, we are witnessing a shift in academic library purchasing power closer to the point of need.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Aug 11, 2020
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post – MDPI’s Remarkable Growth

Despite controversies, MDPI has flourished and are now the 5th largest scholarly publisher in the market. Christos Petrou offers an analysis of their enormous levels of growth.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Aug 10, 2020
  • 34 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back — The Pandemic’s Impact on Open Access Progress

The COVID pandemic may leave us stuck between a growing consensus that open science is the superior way to drive progress and an inability to invest what may be needed to make it happen.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 4, 2020
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Good vs. Evil? Finding the Right Mix of For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Services

Today, Joe and Roger analyze the variety of firms to which the academy can outsource scholarly communication and adjacent priorities: consortia, societies, and commercial enterprises.

  • By Joseph Esposito, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 21, 2020
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

cOAlition S’s Rights Confiscation Strategy Continues

By calling its new policy a “Rights Retention Strategy,” cOAlition S is engaging in doublespeak. This strategy actually does exactly the opposite of what it claims.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 20, 2020
  • 65 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Is It Time to (Finally) Get Serious about Submission Charges?

Journal submission fees would reduce the continuously growing editorial and peer review burdens while allowing for better levels of rigor and oversight. Roy Kaufman makes a case for their adoption.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Jul 15, 2020
  • 38 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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