Keeping Publishing Infrastructure Independent
Silverchair, which provides vital digital infrastructure for the publishing sector, will remain independent (for now, at least) as a result of new majority ownership by private equity.
Guest Post — Why Transformative Agreements Should Offer Unlimited Open Access Publishing
Julian Wilson from IOPP explains the benefits offered by unlimited transformative agreements.
Revisiting: Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?
Rick Anderson revisits a 2020 post: 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?
Revisiting — Return of the Big Brands: How Legacy Publishers Will Coopt Open Access
Revisiting a 2015 post that predicted the dominance of the cascade model of journal portfolio publishing and the increased dominance of the larger existing publishers in an open access market.
Going Legit Part 2: The Continuing Path from Piracy to Partnership
An SSP Meeting Session showing the results from publisher partnerships with Researchgate suggest the company is shifting from a source of potential infringement to a distribution channel that is being folded into more and more organizations.
Revisiting: When is a Publisher not a Publisher? Cobbling Together the Pieces to Build a Workflow Business
Revisiting a 2017 post looking at how, due to the slowing growth of content licensing, sophisticated content providers are building businesses supporting researcher workflow and university business processes.
10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 2)
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 1)
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
Guest Post — What Do Library-Publisher Relations Look Like in 2022?
The AUPresses Library Relations Committee asks Peter Berkery and Mary Lee Kennedy to share their thoughts about how relations between publishers and libraries have changed.
Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?
A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?
Annual Reviews’ Subscribe To Open: From Idea To Full Adoption
Annual Reviews will offer their journals as Subscribe to Open. Come read our interview with Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-in-Chief.
Making Research a Global Enterprise
Haseeb Irfanullah reflects on the recent Scholarly Kitchen webinar discussing the future of research as a global exercise.
Guest Post: Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward
A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
Guest Post — Event Streaming Start-Ups: A Strategic Overview and Taxonomy
The value of streaming video as a genre of scholarly communication is just being established. Today, Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger profile the leading start-ups in this space.
A New Twist on a Publishing Scam: Ghost-authoring Book Reviews for Fun and Profit
In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else.