Is Hybrid a Valid Pathway to Open Access? Publishers Argue Yes, in Response to Plan S
As we await the next communication from Coalition S, the largest publishers indicate that they will not abandon the hybrid pathway for open access.
Ask The Chefs: Beyond the APC
It’s Open Access week so this month we asked the chefs: What’s next for OA? What lies beyond the APC as a funding model? Let us know your thoughts!
Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions
Proposing a model for thinking about the interactions of rigor, cogency, accessibility, significance, openness, and impact in scholarly quality.
Guest Post — Scaffolding a Shift to a Values-driven Open Books Ecosystem
Emily Farrell from MIT Press discusses how collective open book models offer a chance to help many stakeholders across academic publishing share expertise to make processes easier, costs lower, and access to knowledge more collaborative.
Guest Post: Reflections from The Munin Conference Part Two – Open Science
This is the second article of three in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at The Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today’s focus is Open Science.
Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 1)
Robert Harington interviews a number of experts with a few burning questions on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in a two part post, part one appearing here:
Ask The Chefs: OSTP Policy Part I
[…] — researchers, funders, institutions, libraries, and scholarly societies — understand that a move to equitable and inclusive open research and open access publishing is necessary. There is no question that all stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem — researchers, funders, institutions, libraries, […]
Ask The Fellows: SSP 2019 Annual Meeting
[…] coming year. As the Open Scholarship Diversity Resident Librarian at IU Bloomington, I looked forward to hearing practical strategies for open access to scholarly work. I got some great takeaways from the meeting and was particularly interested in the Subscribe to […]
Guest Post — An Open Agenda: European Funder Approaches to Open Science
[…] and Vanessa Proudman of SPARC Europe look at a recent survey of of European funders to explore what’s being done to drive change in scholarly communication, and argue that funders’ open policies could be backed up more by funders’ own practices.
Ask The Chefs — The NIH Steps on the Open Access Accelerator
[…] against the Nelson Memo. There’s still a knee-jerk reaction out there, assuming that the largest of publishers are fighting against open access. But this is a vestige from a different era. Most of the large commercial publishers have fully embraced open […]
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.
Framing the Open Access Debate
The debate over Open Access is not about science or economics but about core values and the language that embodies them.
Guest Post — Making Research Accessible: The arXiv Accessibility Forum Moved the Action Upstream
Shamsi Brinn (UX Manager at arXiv) and Bill Kasdorf (Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC) discuss the recent Accessibility Forum hosted by arXiv. Over 2,000 people registered for the Forum; over 350 attended the live event; and hundreds more are […]
Naiveté Scene — Open Source vs. Scale in Scholarly Publishing
Once again, the term “open” requires further thought to probe the pros and cons. With open source, we may be once again doing things that make the big bigger and the small less relevant.
Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action
[…] placed on journal literature, we are interested in furthering and promoting increased attention by libraries, publishers, and researchers on scholarly open access (OA) monographs. We recognize, and appreciate the discussions to date, many here at The Scholarly Kitchen over the past […]