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Archives: Open Access

Guest Post: Pushing for Equity and Diversity in Scholarship through Open Access: Lessons Learned and Perspective from the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)

Raymond Pun, Sai Deng, and Guoying (Grace) Liu on the challenge of advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion within scholarly communications when your own institution isn’t “there” yet.

  • By Raymond Pun, Sai Deng, Guoying Liu
  • May 26, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Is Science Too Slow to Change the World?

Morressier’s Sami Benchekroun advocates for a mindset shift from resisting change to embracing adaptation in order to drive a new, more efficient infrastructure for scholarly communications.

  • By Sami Benchekroun
  • May 4, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Intended Audience and Actual Distribution: A Growing Mismatch?

Researchers write articles for a primary audience of peers. Open access has expanded the actual distribution. What to do about the growing mismatch?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Dylan Ruediger
  • May 3, 2023
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

What Can I Do with This? Indicators of Usage Rights in the User Interface

Inconsistency in location/format of usage rights information and CC badges across formats and platforms makes it challenging to discover if/how articles can be reused. @lisalibrarian

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Annika Deutsch
  • May 2, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Double-Cost of Green-via-Gold

Open access is public access. With the Nelson OSTP memo as a catalyst for Green-via-Gold, will we still need agency repositories?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 25, 2023
  • 35 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Annie Callanan

Robert Harington talks to Annie Callanan, Chief Executive of Taylor & Francis, 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
  • Apr 3, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 13: Industry Primer — Books Within the Scholarly Publishing Landscape

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) speak to Ben Denne, Director of Publishing for Academic Books (Cambridge University Press), about the books side of scholarly publishing.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Mar 24, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Charles Watkinson

Robert Harington talks to Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan and Director of the University of Michigan Press, 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 6, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Jasmin Lange

Robert Harington talks to Jasmin Lange, Chief Publishing Officer at Brill, 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
  • Feb 27, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Judy Verses

Robert Harington talks to Judy Verses, President Academic and Government Markets, Elsevier, 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
  • Feb 21, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 14, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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