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Archives: Open access (publishing)

Telling the Story of How Open Access Benefits Society: A Vision for the Future

Traditional metrics do not allow us to fully express how OA publishing benefits society; here’s a vision for the future of storytelling with usage data in scholarly communications.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 6, 2025
  • 9 Comments

The Ivies (Plus) Have Concerns about the Nelson OSTP Memo

Is the OA movement painting itself into a corner with concerns about new OA rules and regulations?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 16, 2023
  • 54 Comments

Feasibility, Sustainability, and the Subscribe-to-Open Model

Like all OA funding models, subscribe-to-open solves some problems while creating others. Some of the downsides are pretty fundamental.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 20, 2021
  • 39 Comments

Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next? 

How can collective action models to support open access, like Subscribe to Open, be applied to academic publishing? An interview with Raym Crow.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 27, 2020
  • 17 Comments

The University of California and Elsevier: An Interview with Jeff MacKie-Mason

Rick Anderson interviews Jeff MacKie-Mason about the University of California system’s recent break with Elsevier.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 6, 2019
  • 38 Comments

Cabell’s Predatory Journal Blacklist: An Updated Review

Two years after its initial entry into the marketplace, Cabell’s Blacklist has matured into a carefully crafted and highly useful directory of predatory and deceptive journals.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 1, 2019
  • 60 Comments

Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?

Transcript of a debate held at the 2019 Researcher to Reader Conference, on the resolution “Sci-Hub Does More Good Than Harm to Scholarly Communication.”

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 16, 2019
  • 28 Comments

PeerJ Waives APCs and Pivots Again

Why would a for-profit, VC funded publisher celebrate by committing itself to a full year’s worth of additional expenses with no additional revenue?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 9, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Future of the OA Megajournal

Predicted to radically consolidate STM journals, the OA megajournal has found a successful niche market. The same can be said for MOOCs.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 10, 2018
  • 12 Comments

Guest Post: Charles Oppenheim Asks How Big a Problem Are Articles that Should Be OA but End Up Behind Paywalls

In recent years, observers have noticed that articles for which an APC has been paid are not always made freely available. How pervasive is this problem? A Scholarly Kitchen reader investigates.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • May 25, 2017
  • 15 Comments

Diversity in the Open Access Movement, Part 2: Differing Goals

What, if anything, should be done about the fact that the Open Access movement embraces not only a variety of definitions of the term “open access,” but also a diversity of visions as to what constitutes an acceptable future for access to scholarship?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 24, 2017
  • 9 Comments

Diversity in the Open Access Movement, Part 1: Differing Definitions

Fifteen years after the term was coined, we still don’t have a single agreed-upon definition of Open Access (OA). What are the implications of this diversity of views within the OA movement, and how much does it really matter?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 23, 2017
  • 26 Comments

Open Access: Meaning(s) and Goal(s)

Are we all talking about the same thing when we say “open access” — and do we all mean the same thing when we talk about an “open access future”? Short answers: “yes (kind of)” and “no way.”

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 24, 2014
  • 51 Comments

Q&A with SAGE’s David Ross about PeerJ Investment

SAGE has announced its investment in PeerJ, an Open Access publisher with an unusual business model. SAGE’s David Ross answers some questions about the thinking behind this move and some of its implications for the future.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 23, 2014
  • 21 Comments

The Scam, the Sting, and the Reaction: Labbé, Bohannon, Sokal

Editors keep allowing nonsense and gibberish to be published in their journals and conference proceedings. How many exposés and sting operations will it take before scholarly publishing begins effectively to police itself?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 28, 2014
  • 30 Comments

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