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2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

Catching up with the ongoing consolidation of the journals market — what has happened in the two years since this was last examined? And how does the market look if you add in a large number of relatively newly launched journals?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Revisiting — What Does “Federally Funded” Actually Mean?

With a new public access memo and federal agency policies due, Angela Cochran revisits her 2013 post exploring what Federally Funded means.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Aug 12, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 14: Open Access Update- A Run-Down of the OSTP Nelson Memo with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe provides a current refresh on the open access (OA) funding landscape, and more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Jul 18, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 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

Expanding Scholarly Kitchen Translations Collections

Today we announce another round of article translations, this time into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 5, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — The Outlook for Data Sharing in Light of the Nelson Memo

What are the likely impacts of the OSTP’s Nelson Memo on data sharing for researchers and repositories?

  • By Dylan Ruediger
  • Sep 6, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

A New OSTP Memo: Some Initial Observations and Questions

Some initial thoughts on the new OSTP memo on public access to results of federally funded research — and questions about its intent and implications.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 29, 2022
  • 35 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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