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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Melissa Junior

Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem

Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 14, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now

The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 2, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Observations from the Charleston Vendor Showcase

Reflecting on the Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase @lisalibrarian share what she did — and didn’t — see.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 21, 2023
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist

A new research study finds that open access monographs can generate significant revenue — both on the print side and digitally. 

  • By Laura Brown, Erich van Rijn, Roger C. Schonfeld, John Sherer
  • Sep 21, 2023
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — The PLOS Union 

PLOS staff are unionizing. How its leadership responds is a test of its vision for inclusive publishing.

  • By Charles Whalley
  • Jun 29, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Some Observations from Charleston (Open Access Edition):

Thoughts on open access (OA) from the perspectives of both the publisher and library communities at the Charleston Meeting.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Dec 8, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Let the Metadata Wars Begin

Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 22, 2022
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Paying It Forward: A Call to Action

As the SSP’s Annual Meeting for 2022 comes to a close, Jennifer Regala offers thoughts on what you can do to support and build our community.

  • By Jennifer Regala
  • Jun 6, 2022
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Annual Reviews’ Subscribe To Open: From Idea To Full Adoption

Annual Reviews will offer their journals as Subscribe to Open. Come read our interview with Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-in-Chief.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Apr 28, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The Library Technology Market’s Failure to Support Controlled Digital Lending

Nathan Mealey, Michael Rodriguez, and Charlie Barlow look at the state of Controlled Digital Lending.

  • By Nathan Mealey, Michael Rodriguez, Charlie Barlow
  • Oct 25, 2021
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 1)

Robert Harington interviews a number of experts with a few burning questions on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in a two part post, part one appearing here:

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 28, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — Subscribe to Open: The Why, The How and The What Now?!

The International Water Association is going to flip its entire journal portfolio to open access via a Subscriber to Open model. Here’s how they plan to make it a success.

  • By Sara Bosshart, Rod Cookson, Philipp Hess
  • Dec 8, 2020
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next? 

How can collective action models to support open access, like Subscribe to Open, be applied to academic publishing? An interview with Raym Crow.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 27, 2020
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age

Open access, scholarly publishing, business models, and sustainability. The past is prologue. The present is complex. @lisalibrarian provides SSP a primer.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 7, 2020
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

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