Digging into shift+OPEN: A Conversation with MIT Press
Rick Anderson interviews Nick Lindsay of MIT Press about the press’s new shift+OPEN program for subscription journals that want to go OA.
Rick Anderson interviews Nick Lindsay of MIT Press about the press’s new shift+OPEN program for subscription journals that want to go OA.
Robert Harington talks to Vikram Savkar, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Medicine Segment of Health Learning, Research & Practice, Wolters Kluwer, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
Robert Harington talks to Jay Flynn, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Research at Wiley, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
There are still barriers and hesitations around open research practices. Erika Pastrana and Simon Adar suggest that publishers and technology platforms can better support authors and drive uptake.
Robert Harington talks to Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.
Robert Harington talks to Mandy Hill, Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press in this new series of perspectives from some of publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.
Thoughts on open access (OA) from the perspectives of both the publisher and library communities at the Charleston Meeting.
Erich van Rijn looks at the University of California’s Luminos open access books program and reviews lessons learned and what is needed for such programs to succeed.
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?
Though open access indicators within a given publishing platform are relatively consistent, significant inconsistency across platforms likely creates user confusion.
Is there an entrenched stasis in scholarly communication in which the core elements of the system have not been much moved by the revolutions happening around us?
Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson reflect on the OSTP’s response to their interview questions, and on some implications of those responses and of the memo itself.
Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson interview Dr. Alondra Nelson, acting director of the White House Office on Science & Technology Policy when the new OSTP memo was published.