The Biggest Big Deal
The newly announced California/Elsevier transformative agreement will test the financial sustainability and the financial desirability of the multi-payer model.
Guest Post — Building an Easier Path Toward Open Access Book Publishing: Support for Authors
Christina Emery presents an updated overview of the open access books landscape and examines the challenges of open access book publishing according to feedback from authors and researchers, plus what support is available to them.
Can We Re-engineer Scholarly Journal Publishing? An Interview with Richard Wynne, Rescognito
In today’s post, chefs Alice Meadows and Tim Vines interview Richard Wynne, Founder of Rescognito, a free service for recognizing and promoting Open Research.
Guest Post — The Words We Live By: Our Ideas and Values as the Catalyst for Action
Dawit Tegbaru offers ideas on how the scholarly communications community can take action to address inequity.
Guest Post — Putting Publications into Context with the DocMaps Framework for Editorial Metadata
The DocMaps Project offers a machine-readable, interoperable and extensible framework for capturing valuable context about the processes used to create research products such as journal articles.
Open Access, Conspiracy Theories and the Democratization of Knowledge
Robert Harington asks if we need more than Open Access (OA) to truly democratize science?
Guest Post – Scientific Output in the Year of COVID, An Update
An update and a correction for an earlier post on research publication growth in 2020.
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part Two
Robert Harington talks to a range of expert stakeholders with differing views about the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy and Creative Commons Licensing. Part 2. of 2 interview posts.
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part One
Robert Harington talks to a range of expert stakeholders with differing views about the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy and Creative Commons Licensing. Part 1 of 2 interview posts.
Explaining the Rights Retention Strategy
Unpacking each word — rights, retention, and strategy — enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.
Guest Post — Lessons Learned: A Year with GetFTR
Ralph Youngen and Todd Toler look back on what’s been learned over the course of the first year of implementing GetFTR, a solution to enable faster access for researchers to the published journal articles.
Sci-Hub Citation Study Confuses Causes With Effects
Do Sci-Hub downloads cause more citations, or are high impact papers simply downloaded more often?
Revisiting Nicholson Baker and Retention of Print
Scholars are anxious about what materials will be preserved and made accessible. Whose priorities come first?
Open Access and Global South: It is More Than a Matter of Inclusion
Haseeb Irfanullah discusses how we can overcome the barriers blocking global participation in open access publishing.
Guest Post — Evaluating Publishers as Partners with Libraries and Higher Education
Rachel Caldwell presents PAPPI, a proposed matrix for determining how well a publisher or vendor aligns with the mission of libraries.