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Plan S and the Transformation of Scholarly Communication: Are We Missing the Woods?

Plan S has injected a much-needed sense of urgency to the debate about transformation to full and immediate open access, but what are we missing in our focus on the minutiae of compliance? How do we ensure that implementation ensures a more equitable system for all?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Jun 3, 2019
  • 23 Comments

Transformative Agreements: A Primer

Read-and-publish? Publish-and-read? A primer on transformative agreements by @lisalibrarian.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 23, 2019
  • 12 Comments

A Brief History of History Responding to Open Access

History as a discipline has a history of responding to Open Access Initiatives. What can we learn from this history of history that could push faster, farther toward collaboratively designed and implemented OA?

  • By Karin Wulf, Seth Denbo
  • Feb 13, 2019
  • 17 Comments

Plan S: Impact on Society Publishers

Plan S implementation guidance has not provided reassurance to anxious society publishers

  • By Michael Clarke
  • Dec 5, 2018
  • 32 Comments

Are Mirror Journals a Better Path to the Open Access Flip?

Mixing subscription content and open access content in hybrid journals has done little to accelerate the flip from subscription to OA. Angela Cochran explores the creation of mirror journals to comply with new OA mandates and supply a more sustainable model for moving toward OA.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Oct 29, 2018
  • 26 Comments

Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research? – Part 2

In yesterday’s “Ask the Community (and Chefs)” post, librarians and people involved in various ways in journal publishing shared their thoughts about how to increase equity in open research. Today’s responses provide researcher perspectives and reflections on the wider enabling landscape for open access and open research.

  • By Siân Harris
  • Oct 25, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Open Access: A Look Back

A look back at ten years of open access posts and ten years of progress on The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 22, 2018
  • 7 Comments

How Traditional Publishing Works

Thus the defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Sep 17, 2018
  • 50 Comments

Libraries Face a Future of Open Access

Libraries and legacy publishers are in an unholy embrace. They need not love each other to feel they should stick together.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 23, 2018
  • 78 Comments

The Forbidden Forecast: Thinking About Open Access and Library Subscriptions

Green OA has not had a significant effect on subscriptions. What does — and doesn’t — that mean for subscriptions in the future?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 21, 2017
  • 62 Comments

Diversity in the Open Access Movement, Part 2: Differing Goals

What, if anything, should be done about the fact that the Open Access movement embraces not only a variety of definitions of the term “open access,” but also a diversity of visions as to what constitutes an acceptable future for access to scholarship?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 24, 2017
  • 9 Comments

Diversity in the Open Access Movement, Part 1: Differing Definitions

Fifteen years after the term was coined, we still don’t have a single agreed-upon definition of Open Access (OA). What are the implications of this diversity of views within the OA movement, and how much does it really matter?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 23, 2017
  • 26 Comments

What We Tell Society Publishers About Open Access

We are often called upon to discuss open access to society publishers. This is what we tell them.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Dec 13, 2016
  • 57 Comments

The Fallacy of ‘Sound’ Science

“Sound methodology” suggests an ideal match to a scientific question that never quite exists. So why do some publishers use it?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Oct 27, 2016
  • 12 Comments

Can Highly Selective Journals Survive on APCs?

Are the APC levels set for high-end OA journals too low to be sustainable? Are there other ways that might help high-end OA journals pay their way?

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 10, 2016
  • 25 Comments
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