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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – – Alison Mudditt

Robert Harington and Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS, in conversation in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington, Alison Mudditt
  • Mar 20, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Antonia Seymour

Robert Harington talks to Antonia Seymour, CEO of IOP Publishing, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 13, 2023
  • 1 Comment

China and Open Access

An interview with Mark Robertson about the CAST/STM report on open access and China.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Feb 28, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Innovation at eLife: An Interview with Damian Pattinson

eLife’s recent announcement that it will reinvent itself as a “service that reviews preprints” has generated much discussion over recent weeks. But what are the primary drivers and goals, and what might we all learn from this bold experiment?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Nov 15, 2022
  • 2 Comments

The Beginning of the End of Publisher-Society Partner Contracts

Does the traditional society-publisher partnership contract make sense in an APC-fueled OA market? Angela Cochran reviews the new Wiley Partner Solutions offering and what that might mean for the future of contracts and guarantees.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Oct 24, 2022
  • 6 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

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:

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 28, 2021
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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

Reforming Research Assessment: A Tough Nut to Crack

Alison Mudditt looks at the recently released TOP Factor from the Center for Open Science, and the bigger picture of shifting the nature of research assessment.

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • 10 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

Politics and Open Access

Robert Harington explores rumors circulating in recent weeks of an impending US Executive Order focusing on public access to federally funded research and open data.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Dec 16, 2019
  • 59 Comments

Content Platform Migrations Cause Headaches. Can We Avoid Some of the Pain?

Libraries and individual subscribers to journals have seen the problems that can occur when a publication moved or was sold from one publisher to another. Perhaps there would be an editorial change, leading to delayed issues. Perhaps all the subscription […]

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 4, 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
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