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Ask the Fellows: SSP 2022 Annual Meeting

We ask the 2022 Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellows to offer their thoughts on this year’s Annual Meeting.

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Jun 17, 2022
  • 0 Comments

Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 2)

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 two appearing here.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 29, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part One

Robert Harington talks to a range of expert stakeholders with differing views about the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy and Creative Commons Licensing. Part 1 of 2 interview posts.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Transformative Agreements, Funders and the Publishing Ecosystem: a Lack of Focus on Equity

Robert Harington argues that funders, be they national, or private, should consider directly funding their field through funding societies and institutions, with a focus on equitable distribution of funds across scholarly communities.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Dec 16, 2020
  • 2 Comments

A World Elsewhere: PLOS’s Community Action Publishing Model

Can community-action publishing prove to be a viable alternative to market-based publishing?

  • By Joseph Esposito, Michael Clarke
  • Nov 23, 2020
  • 23 Comments

Let Authors Choose How to Pay for Peer Review and Publication

Giving authors a choice between submission fees and APCs has numerous benefits

  • By Tim Vines
  • Jan 13, 2020
  • 46 Comments

Landscape Analysis: A SPARC Report on the Changing Nature of the Academic Publishing Industry and the Implications for Institutions

The latest report from SPARC is a departure from advocacy and is very well done. Robert Harington discusses key findings from Claudio Aspesi et al., for SPARC – A Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions

  • By Robert Harington
  • May 22, 2019
  • 2 Comments

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.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 11, 2019
  • 1 Comment

Plan S: What About Researchers?

In this article, Robert Harington implores Plan S leaders and funders to take researcher needs to heart.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 14, 2019
  • 28 Comments

Societies, Mission and Publishing: Why One Size Does Not Fit All

Robert Harington argues that academic societies need to balance mission and business more effectively. There is nothing wrong with developing a mixed publishing economy that best suits a range of communities and types of business.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Oct 1, 2018
  • 10 Comments

Plan T: Scrap APCs and Fund Open Access with Submission Fees

Plan S proposes to take a hammer to how we fund peer review and publication. The focus is currently on APCs, but submission fees are overall cheaper for authors, particularly at highly selective journals, and thus warrant serious consideration.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Sep 20, 2018
  • 22 Comments

The Core vs. the Crowd — Why Barriers to Entry May Help Restore Trust

A history of the rise of coercive media suggests that raising barriers to entry may be a remedy. Could a business model shift do most of the work for us?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 2, 2018
  • 34 Comments

Are Library Subscriptions Over-Utilized?

Lisa Hinchliffe asks, if the true value is of a subscription is being obscured by over-utilization, should libraries seek to dampen such excess in order to have more appropriate measures of the real value of a subscription?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • May 22, 2018
  • 57 Comments

Recurring Dream — Organizations with Subscriptions Are More Valuable

Even Silicon Valley is finding that recurring revenues (aka, subscriptions) lead to more valuable businesses, while helping smaller companies thrive.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 7, 2018
  • 15 Comments

The Race to the Bottom — Short-term Bargains versus Long-term Vitality

Haggling for cheaper content today will certainly have hidden and unpleasant costs — large and small — down the road.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 23, 2018
  • 35 Comments
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