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Guest Post — Shared Print Down the Rabbit Hole

Libraries’ ability to steward print collections in the future is being compromised by how we manage them now. How can we evolve our shared print strategy to align with the core values of libraries, and to increase the value proposition of print collections. Part 1 of 2.

  • By Heather Weltin, Alison Wohlers, Amy Wood
  • Mar 6, 2024
  • 2 Comments

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Niko Pfund

Robert Harington talks to Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 29, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Barbara Kline Pope

Robert Harington talks to Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 15, 2024
  • 10 Comments

Who Would Have Thought That We Needed Another Listserv?

Open Café, a new listserv dedicated to the free and open discussion of open scholarship has been met with enthusiasm by the scholarly communication community.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 5, 2024
  • 4 Comments

The Second Digital Transformation

The scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. Today, Ithaka S+R reviews this strategic landscape as part of a broader analysis of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Oya Y. Rieger, Tracy Bergstrom
  • Jan 29, 2024
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — Society Publishers Respond to Plan S “Towards Responsible Publishing” Proposal

Three global society publishers respond to cOAlition S’s recent “Towards responsible publishing, a proposal from cOAlition S”.

  • By IOP Publishing, AIP Publishing, American Physical Society
  • Jan 17, 2024
  • 3 Comments

Library Licensing Strategies

Libraries are accelerating engagement with transformative and pure publish agreements, balancing contract-based publishing support with an APC fund, and investing in the scholarly communications ecosystem.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 19, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder

Noted journalist and scholarly communication observer Richard Poynder explains why he has given up on the open access movement.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Dec 7, 2023
  • 87 Comments

Observations from the Charleston Vendor Showcase

Reflecting on the Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase @lisalibrarian share what she did — and didn’t — see.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 21, 2023
  • 14 Comments

Ask The Chefs: cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing”

We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Angela Cochran
  • Nov 16, 2023
  • 9 Comments

Guest Post: Mind the Gap – Understanding China’s Perspective on Research Integrity and Open Access

Nicko Goncharoff presents an overview of the STM/CUJS China Symposium and offers key takeaways, including China’s increasing concern over APCs and Gold OA costs, divergent views on research integrity, and better routes to cooperation.

  • By Nicko Goncharoff
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 30, 2023
  • 26 Comments

Libraries, Archives, Choice and Red Envelopes: The Growth of Streaming, the Decline of Choice, and the Death of the Red Envelope

The role of libraries and archives as streaming grows, choice declines, and the death of the red envelopes arrives.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 10, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Building a Voluntary Contribution Transaction System

Here I propose a framework for a Voluntary Contribution Transaction system to recognize the voluntary contributions in the scholarly workflow and to give tangible benefits to the volunteers.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 9, 2023
  • 8 Comments

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

The American Chemical Society is offering a new approach to funding open-access articles; Rick Anderson interviews Sarah Tegen about it.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Oct 2, 2023
  • 23 Comments

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