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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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

What Do Libraries Keep When They Cancel the Big Deal? 

How do libraries decide which titles to keep when they cancel the Big Deal? What do the results look like? A look at seven libraries that walked away by @lisalibrarian.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jul 14, 2020
  • 11 Comments

Guest Post — Leveraging Technology Partnerships in Times of Crisis

Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen discusses a new Silverchair report on how publishers are leveraging technology partnerships to adapt to the pandemic crisis.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Jul 2, 2020
  • 0 Comments

Publishers Invest in Preprints

Major scholarly publishers have made substantial investments in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Oya Y. Rieger
  • May 27, 2020
  • 25 Comments
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