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Five Tips for Hosting a Sustainable Event

Event planners are faced with the delicate balance between constructing spaces for deeper connection with the impact we’re having on our planet. Here’s what I’ve learned about planning events that prioritize sustainability.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?

Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Information Experience Design: Holistic, Humanistic Solutions for Scholarly Products

For those in the business of information, it’s time to elevate our thinking from the transactional to the experiential. Information experience design (IXD) offers an inclusive, participatory approach that embraces the diversity of our user communities.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 3, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

What is the Blockchain Really, and Should You Care? A Guide for the Perplexed Scholarly Publishing Citizen.

Here’s your 12 point guide to blockchain. Written for non-technically minded scholarly publishing folk

  • By David Smith
  • Jun 27, 2019
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Guest Post: How to Win the Internet, Digital Single Market Edition: A Ten Step Program

Roy Kaufman of Copyright Clearance Center lays out an argument for a more robust and expansive use of licenses by rightsholders, especially in light of recent developments in the EU.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Jun 10, 2019
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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