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Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist

A new research study finds that open access monographs can generate significant revenue — both on the print side and digitally. 

  • By Laura Brown, Erich van Rijn, Roger C. Schonfeld, John Sherer
  • Sep 21, 2023
  • 15 Comments

Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action

Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.

  • By Curtis Brundy, Laura Hanscom, Barbara Kern, Brigitte Weinsteiger
  • Sep 20, 2023
  • 25 Comments

Guest Post — Reputation and Publication Volume at MDPI and Frontiers

Compared to their peak levels, publication volume has declined at MDPI by 27% and at Frontiers by 36%. What’s behind these declines, and how do they reflect the inherent risk in the APC open access model and different approaches to reputation management?

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Sep 18, 2023
  • 41 Comments

The Open Access Fund at Edinburgh University Press: An Interview with Nicola Ramsey

An interview with Nicola Ramsey of Edinburgh University Press about the Press’s new Open Access Fund.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 11, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Shared Infrastructure and the Recent Downtime at the University of Michigan

When the University of Michigan was forced to disconnect from the internet last week, it resulted in disruptions to several key services it provides to the broader research community, such as the University of Michigan Press, HathiTrust, and ICPSR. What can we learn from this experience?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 7, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Fashionable Goodness: Authors’ Choices in Publication

Authors can choose from a number of publication options. What drives an author to self-publish their book? What do they give up when they do?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Aug 28, 2023
  • 8 Comments

Revisiting — Building for the Long Term: Why Business Strategies are Needed for Community-Owned Infrastructure

Revisiting a post from 2019 in light of the acquisition of protocols.io by Springer Nature. As community-owned and -led efforts to build scholarly communications infrastructure gain momentum, what can be done to help them achieve long term sustainability?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 1, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — The Nelson Memo and Public Access are Under Attack – Will Powerful Incumbents Come to its Rescue?

The Nelson Memo is being contested. Will the incumbents of the scholarly publishing world stand up for the Memo and fight for its funding?

  • By Tom Ciavarella
  • Jul 24, 2023
  • 16 Comments

Revisiting: Who Has All The Content?

Revisiting a post from 2017: Several services aim to gather all publications comprehensively. Who has all the content?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 13, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach

New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors.

  • By David Parker
  • Jul 6, 2023
  • 11 Comments

Guest Post — Why Are UK Libraries Signing a Springer-Nature Deal They Don’t Seem to Like?

Libraries continue to sign Transformative Agreements while becoming increasingly convinced that they do not represent the desired transformation. Peter Barr explains why this happens.

  • By Peter Barr
  • Jun 22, 2023
  • 10 Comments

Ask The Chefs: 2023 SSP Annual Meeting

The 2023 SSP Annual Meeting wrapped up last week. We asked the Chefs for their impressions of the event.

  • By David Crotty, Alice Meadows, Robert Harington, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 8, 2023
  • 1 Comment

10 Trends I Observed Interviewing 10 Publishing Executives About the Future of Academic Books

As co-host of the Scholarly Communication Podcast, I’ve spent the last six months speaking with university press publishers and small to mid-size commercial book publishers. Here’s what I’ve learned.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • May 23, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Guest Post – Manifesto for a New Read Deal

A.J. Boston offers a route for managing closed access e-serials in a way that finds the best value for libraries, the most content for users, keeps publishers solvent, and experiments on behalf of equity.

  • By A.J. Boston
  • May 18, 2023
  • 8 Comments

The Double-Cost of Green-via-Gold

Open access is public access. With the Nelson OSTP memo as a catalyst for Green-via-Gold, will we still need agency repositories?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 25, 2023
  • 35 Comments

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