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Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?

It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.

  • By Stephanie Decker
  • Apr 15, 2025
  • 15 Comments

Green Open Access – Free for Authors But at a Cost for Readers

Pursuit of Green open access rather than Gold not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 12, 2024
  • 72 Comments

Transitional Agreements Aren’t Working: What Comes Next?

Transitional agreements are proving to be neither transitional nor transformative. How should libraries and publishers reassess and chart a different course?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Apr 4, 2024
  • 27 Comments

Guest Post – Making Sense of Open Access Business Models

A classification scheme for open access business models.

  • By Tasha Mellins-Cohen
  • Mar 26, 2024
  • 3 Comments

Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder

Noted journalist and scholarly communication observer Richard Poynder explains why he has given up on the open access movement.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Dec 7, 2023
  • 87 Comments

Guest Post: Mind the Gap – Understanding China’s Perspective on Research Integrity and Open Access

Nicko Goncharoff presents an overview of the STM/CUJS China Symposium and offers key takeaways, including China’s increasing concern over APCs and Gold OA costs, divergent views on research integrity, and better routes to cooperation.

  • By Nicko Goncharoff
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist

A new research study finds that open access monographs can generate significant revenue — both on the print side and digitally. 

  • By Laura Brown, Erich van Rijn, Roger C. Schonfeld, John Sherer
  • Sep 21, 2023
  • 15 Comments

Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action

Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.

  • By Curtis Brundy, Laura Hanscom, Barbara Kern, Brigitte Weinsteiger
  • Sep 20, 2023
  • 25 Comments

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 14: Open Access Update- A Run-Down of the OSTP Nelson Memo with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe provides a current refresh on the open access (OA) funding landscape, and more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Jul 18, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Peer Review Week 2023 to Focus on Peer Review and the Future of Publishing

Peer Review Week is an annual global event exploring and celebrating the essential role of peer review. This year’s Peer Review Week theme is “Peer Review and the Future of Publishing.”

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Lindsay Morton
  • Jul 17, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach

New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors.

  • By David Parker
  • Jul 6, 2023
  • 11 Comments

Guest Post — Towards Global Equity for Open Access Books 

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is celebrating its 10-year anniversary, a great opportunity to reflect on how far we have come with open infrastructures for the distribution and discoverability of open access books (monographs, edited collections, and other long-form publications).

  • By Niels Stern, Ronald Snijder
  • Jun 14, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Smorgasbord: Trends from the Spring 2023 Meetings and Conferences

It’s conference season in scholarly communications. Between them, the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs have been / will be at 9 events around the world in the 6 week stretch from early April to mid May. In a series of “Smorgasbord” posts, Chefs will share some of the key themes emerging for our sector. This week: Charlie Rapple reports from EARMA, Roy Kaufman from the London Book Fair, and David Crotty from STM. 

  • By Charlie Rapple, Roy Kaufman, David Crotty
  • May 11, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — “We are ready to move forward”: A Professional Society’s Route to Open Access

The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.

  • By Steven Arndt
  • Jan 24, 2023
  • 3 Comments

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

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