12/01/2021
« Last week John Wiley & Sons announced its acquisition of open access (OA) publisher Hindawi Limited for $298M. While this announcement sparked several questions and conversations in…
12/01/2021
« Open access (OA) has widely been touted as a ‘radical’ alternative to the traditional scholarly publishing system, which has faced heavy criticism in the last twenty years for its oligopolistic…
07/01/2021
« The journal brand has proven to be the great intangible asset of the scholarly publisher. It signals trust and authority to authors and readers alike. So even…
10/12/2020
« Scientific journal publishers have rapidly converted during the past 25 years to predominantly electronic dissemination, but the reader-pays business model continues to dominate the market. Open Access (OA) publishing, where…
03/12/2020
« EGU journals currently calculate article processing charges (APCs) based on a cost per page of the final published journal article. This creates two specific problems:
An increasing number of institutions…
24/11/2020
« We are very pleased to announce that the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Acting in the capacity of the German National…
16/11/2020
« Earlier this year we wrote about a renewed focus on community at PeerJ. This post is the first in a series on new programs and innovations…
26/10/2020
« In line with international movements towards making academic content Open Access (OA), both for journals and books, and in keeping with our mission to disseminate quality scholarship widely, CEU Press…
15/10/2020
« IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, UK, has announced a pilot to transform its complete journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles…
07/10/2020
« Academia – especially internet research – strives on a dynamic and diverse publishing ecosystem within which researchers can read and publish results and insights free of major hurdles. In practice,…