Guest Post — The Words We Live By: Our Ideas and Values as the Catalyst for Action
Dawit Tegbaru offers ideas on how the scholarly communications community can take action to address inequity.
Guest Post — What Should A Conference Cost?
Mark Carden looks at the many factors that go into organizing a conference and how that leads to the event’s pricing.
Open Access and Global South: It is More Than a Matter of Inclusion
Haseeb Irfanullah discusses how we can overcome the barriers blocking global participation in open access publishing.
Pandemic Perspectives: Updating “What Will We Learn About Scholarly Publishing as a Result of COVID-19”
What have we learned over the course of the COVID pandemic? Our authors revisit earlier posts with updates, now that we have a longer view. Today, Angela Cochran revisits her post asking, “What Will We Learn About Scholarly Publishing as a Result of COVID-19?”
The Failure of the US Government to Fund Science Infrastructure is Causing Things to Literally Collapse
The Arecibo Observatory collapsed, laying bare the problems of funding science infrastructure.
The State of Not-for-Profit Publishing Today
In periods of disruption, commercial publishers have traditionally found opportunities to make capital investments that ultimately strengthen their relative position in the market — opportunities that are not necessarily available to their not-for-profit counterparts. With this in mind, we offer up the beginnings of an analysis of the state of not-for-profit publishing today.
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Academic Library Budgets: Fall 2020
The pandemic has wrought profound disruption on the academic sector. Today, we share findings from a major research project about the budget situation in US academic libraries.
Guest Post — Subscribe to Open: The Why, The How and The What Now?!
The International Water Association is going to flip its entire journal portfolio to open access via a Subscriber to Open model. Here’s how they plan to make it a success.
The 360° Competitor
The defining aspect of such an organization is that it operates as an industry nexus.
Guest Post — The Economics of Trust in Peer Review
Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Dawn Durante of the University of Texas Press, looking at trust in peer review from the perspective of economics.
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.
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
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?
Guest Post — Assessing User Perceptions of an Open Access Subvention Fund
The results of a study on author perceptions of funding open access articles through a library subvention fund at Virginia Tech are analyzed.
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.