Today’s guest blogger explains how Drexel University sees transformative agreements as one of the best ways to support researchers and the public dissemination of knowledge, while also benefiting the university through cost-saving measures.
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?
An AAAS survey reveals authors’ concerns and confusion regarding open licensing of their work.
Heather Staines offers a recap of the most recent Researcher to Reader meeting.
Transitional agreements are proving to be neither transitional nor transformative. How should libraries and publishers reassess and chart a different course?
The American Chemical Society is offering a new approach to funding open-access articles; Rick Anderson interviews Sarah Tegen about it.
The Nelson Memo is being contested. Will the incumbents of the scholarly publishing world stand up for the Memo and fight for its funding?
Libraries continue to sign Transformative Agreements while becoming increasingly convinced that they do not represent the desired transformation. Peter Barr explains why this happens.
As co-host of the Scholarly Communication Podcast, I’ve spent the last six months speaking with university press publishers and small to mid-size commercial book publishers. Here’s what I’ve learned.
Robert Harington talks to Vikram Savkar, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Medicine Segment of Health Learning, Research & Practice, Wolters Kluwer, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.
Does the traditional society-publisher partnership contract make sense in an APC-fueled OA market? Angela Cochran reviews the new Wiley Partner Solutions offering and what that might mean for the future of contracts and guarantees.
The OSTP Nelson Memo has caused quite a stir in scholarly communication circles. Today, Roger Schonfeld asks, how will academia handle the zero embargo?
Julian Wilson from IOPP explains the benefits offered by unlimited transformative agreements.
Today, Judy Verses starts as Elsevier’s President for Academic and Government, completing CEO Kumsal Bayazit’s market-based leadership structure for platform-driven corporate strategy.