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Quality in Peer Review: An Interview with Tracey Brown, Sense about Science

Continuing our celebration of Peer Review Week 2019, today Alice Meadows interviews Tracey Brown, OBE, Director of Sense about Science, which has been involved in Peer Review Week from the start.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 18, 2019
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post: Cost per Use Overvalues Journal Subscriptions

Curtis Kendrick, Dean of Libraries at Binghamton University, raises questions about whether cost-per-use is the appropriate metric for measuring the comparative value of library subscriptions.

  • By Curtis Kendrick
  • Sep 5, 2019
  • 29 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Building for the Long Term: Why Business Strategies are Needed for Community-Owned Infrastructure

As community-owned and -led efforts to build scholarly communications infrastructure gain momentum, what can be done to help them achieve long term sustainability?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 1, 2019
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Open and Equitable Scholarly Communication: An ACRL Research Agenda

ACRL’s latest report identifies needed areas of research to help foster a more open, inclusive and equitable scholarly communications system.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jun 18, 2019
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  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Where Does a University Press Sit in its Parent’s Priorities?

The unfortunate news about cutbacks at Stanford University Press makes it clear that all presses must develop strategies to make them more central to the university’s set of priorities.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Apr 29, 2019
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Revisiting: Governance and the Not-for-profit Publisher

How can not-for-profit organizations outcompete their commercial rivals? Revisiting Joe Esposito’s 2011 post that lays out a blueprint for success.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 5, 2019
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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