Ask The Chefs: Where Does Open Access Go From Here?

[…] publishing the work of our authors? As Toby Green recently points out in Learned Publishing, most green and gold OA workflows require changes to standard practice for every stakeholder along the chain, including publishers and librarians. While innovation often requires […]

Portable Peer Review RIP

[…] uptake. Tim Vines, its founder and chief operating officer, cited several reasons for the lack Axios’s success: price sensitivity, entrenched workflows, and the culture of conducting in-house peer review. The last surviving portable peer review service in this market is […]

Does Born-Digital Mean Rethinking Peer Review?

[…] work, a number of them funded by the Mellon Foundation, are underway. These new platforms will bring with them revised workflows. How might they affect the process of peer review? I put this question to four people currently working on […]

Even Sci-Hub Has Management Headaches

[…] we don’t. Who is underwriting Sci-Hub? The tip jar on the site isn’t paying for the hosting, the development, the workflows. If we take the leadership at its word, Sci-Hub is “legitimately” attempting to make information available to researchers everywhere, […]

Do You Know About Yewno?

[…] you have any other new features in the pipeline for Unearth or any of your other products? Yes, we’re exploring workflows for journal publishers enabling the ingestion of preprints which will help direct articles accurately and efficiently to the right journals and […]

The Ebook R/Evolution – Not as Easy as It Seems

[…] joined up across librarians, faculty, publishers, and everyone in between, all focused on putting digital books directly into the student workflow, with clear direction and training. In fact, Hill concludes that much of what makes ebooks successful on campus is […]