The New “University Journals” in the Marketplace
For “University Publishing” to succeed by any measure, however, it is going to have to attract a lot of authors.
Cabell’s Predatory Journal Blacklist: An Updated Review
Two years after its initial entry into the marketplace, Cabell’s Blacklist has matured into a carefully crafted and highly useful directory of predatory and deceptive journals.
Transformative Agreements: A Primer
Read-and-publish? Publish-and-read? A primer on transformative agreements by @lisalibrarian.
The First Read and Publish Deal with California: An Interview with Cambridge University Press
Earlier this month, Cambridge University Press and the University of California announced a new Read & Publish (R&P) agreement, likely the largest such agreement to date in North America. Today, Roger Schonfeld interviews Cambridge’s Mandy Hill, Managing Director, and Chris Bennett, Global Sales Director, about this new agreement.
Investing in the Researcher Experience
Last week’s ACRL and STM conferences demonstrated that libraries and publishers have a renewed desire to understand the researcher experience and embrace the scholarly information practices that will define our future.
Open Access Publishing: New Evidence on Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors
On Friday, Ithaka S+R released the latest cycle of our long-standing US Faculty Survey which has tracked the changing research, teaching, and publishing practices of higher education faculty members on a triennial basis since 2000. Here we discuss the latest results.
Scholarly Kitchen Webinar: The Future of Independent and Society Publishing
The scholarly communications marketplace has become increasingly difficult for the smaller independent and the society publisher. Here we preview our upcoming webinar looking at the future for these publishers.
Guest Post — Rob Johnson on Shifting Relationship Dynamics and Imbalances in an Open Access World
In a preview for the SSP’s upcoming pre-conference at the UKSG Meeting, Nicola Poser interviews Rob Johnson about shifting relationship dynamics and imbalances in an open access world.
Subscribe To Open: Annual Reviews’ Take on Open Access
Subscribe To Open: Explore how Annual Reviews plans to leverage subscription payments for gated access journals to convert and sustain the journals as Open Access.
Ask The Chefs: Society Sustainability
With many professional societies finding their revenue sources under pressure, this month we asked the Chefs: How might professional societies continue to be sustainable?
Guest Post — What Does Bangladesh Tell Us About Research Communication?
How three transformations in scholarly publishing over recent years could help Bangladesh move out of the UN’s List of Least Developed Countries by 2024. Guest post by Haseeb Md. Irfanullah.
Openness: An interview with Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science
Robert Harington interviews Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science, discussing openness and findings from his recent report entitled The Ascent of Open Access.
Guest Post — Leveling the Playing Field: How to Address Global Imbalances in Scholarly Communication
Andrea Powell, STM’s Publisher Coordinator of Research4Life shares recent discussions about obstacles facing researchers in the Global South, not just in accessing scholarly literature but in performing their own research and finding suitable publication channels to communicate it to a global audience.
Springer Nature Syndicates Content to ResearchGate
A pilot project representing the first significant experiment with the syndication of publisher content to a content supercontinent.
Funder Mandates and A Potential Change in Laboratory Dynamics
What happens when regulations around research funding pit the interests of the laboratory head against those of their students and postdocs?