Physicians and researchers have different needs
What journals do you publish?Our flagship title, the BMJ, is a weekly journal, which goes out in print to all BMA members and other…
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Encouraging innovation
How did Hindawi Publishing come about?Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb (my wife and cofounder of Hindawi) and I were graduate students in the USA from 1992 to…
Beyond typesetting
What do publishers use companies like Aptara for?We work in the content-transformation market. We provide services such as developmental editing, copy editing, typesetting/composition, XML…
Business titles challenge views from STM publishing
How did Emerald come about? Nearly 40 years ago a group of colleagues at Bradford Business School started to take on consultancy work and…
Open access is much wider than just readers not paying
How do you define open access? MR: Our definition is freely-accessible online at point of publication without any charges to readers. We are…
Academics have access anyway
How do you define open access? MM: Giving a definition goes to the heart of the problem with open access. In principle it is…
Text mining of subject archives will enable new facts to be discovered
What is your view of open access? RT: We want the digital versions of papers to be available to all in an unrestricted way…
Self-archiving should be mandatory
How do you define open access? SH: My definition is the same as that of the Budapest convention: that open access gives free online…
The environmental community will embrace open access
How has the journal developed? TS: New Journal of Physics (NJP) was started in 1998 by IOPP and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, the German physical…
Many areas of research are funded by taxpayers but they do not see the results
What has driven open access? MC: The open-access movement is driven partly by the frustrations at the barriers in the toll-access model. Researchers might…
The first priority should be awareness-raising
What is open-access trying to address? AS: The challenges to overcome are the current barriers to the effective dissemination of scholarly research results. That means…
Our community is used to immediate release of preprints
What is CERN's view of open access? JV: Our definition is that everything should be freely available, to everybody, without any embargo. This goes…