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Upstreaming: The Migration of Economic Value in Scholarly Publishing

As publishers increasingly lose control of the final stage of the publishing process, they are looking elsewhere to extract economic value. They are finding it upstream, in the various linked processes that lead to the (erstwhile) final document.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Nov 27, 2018
  • 16 Comments

The New Plugins — What Goals Are the Access Solutions Pursuing?

The apparently different approaches Kopernio, Unpaywall, and Anywhere Access are taking might have a common assumption at their hearts — the status quo.

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

The Wake-up Call — Looking Back at 2017, and Some Factors Affecting 2018

2017 may have been a watershed year for the Internet and its future. What did we learn? And what factors may shape 2018?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 21, 2017
  • 21 Comments

The Costs of Flipping our Dollars to Gold

An interview with MacKenzie Smith and Ivy Anderson, discussing the recent Pay It Forward report on the economic impact of a shift to Gold open access for scholarly journals.

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Aug 24, 2016
  • 10 Comments

Guest Post: Alison Mudditt Interviews Geoffry Crossick on An Age of Challenge and Opportunity: The HEFCE Report on Monographs and Open Access

Alison Muddit interviews Goeffrey Crossick about his report on the future of open access monographs.

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Oct 19, 2015
  • 6 Comments

Publishing Viewed from Santa's Crystal Ball

Some predictions about the future of scholarly publishing, which acknowledges the continuing central role of the major STM publishers.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jan 13, 2014
  • 17 Comments

As Hybrid Open Access Grows, the Scholarly Community Needs Article-level OA Metadata

With OA gaining momentum and hybrid and full OA policies becoming more common, article-level metadata and other standard approaches are necessary to facilitate discoverability.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Dec 5, 2012
  • 28 Comments

Publishers! What Are They Good For? Part Deux: The Debate

The participants in the recent SSP session debating the value of publishers reflect on the session, the audience interactions, and their talks. And, of course, the Romans.

  • By David Smith
  • Jun 22, 2012
  • 12 Comments

Let’s Make Open Access Work

Let’s put aside all the controversy about open access publishing and come up with an OA plan that will work.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 15, 2010
  • 36 Comments

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