Interviews

Encouraging innovation
13 April 2007

Egypt-based Hindawi Publishing has just converted its last two subscription journals to the open-access model. The company's president and co-founder Ahmed Hindawi tells us why

Beyond typesetting
23 January 2007

There is plenty of talk about outsourcing publishing services but what does it involve and who does it? We talk to Gurvinder Barta, chief technologist of USA/India-based Aptara, which serves many well-known publishers

Business titles challenge views from STM publishing
12 August 2006

There is plenty of talk about how STM publishers are embracing the online revolution – but they aren’t the only ones following this trend. We asked John Peters, chief executive of Emerald Group Publishing, for a social science perspective. Interview by Siân Harris

The first priority should be awareness-raising
12 June 2006

Alma Swan is director of consultancy firm Key Perspectives. She has written a number of reports on open access.

The environmental community will embrace open access
12 June 2006

The New Journal of Physics was an early example of a traditional publisher launching an open-access journal. Tim Smith of Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) is the journal's publisher.

Text mining of subject archives will enable new facts to be discovered
12 June 2006

The Wellcome Trust, which funds research in the life sciences and medicine, was the first research funder to make open access a condition of its grants. Robert Terry is the organisation's senior policy adviser.

Self-archiving should be mandatory
12 June 2006

Stevan Harnad of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada and the University of Southampton, UK is considered by many to have been one of the founders of the open-access movement. He believes that self-archiving in institutional repositories is the answer to providing access.

Our community is used to immediate release of preprints
12 June 2006

As head of CERN's library, Jens Vigen works with a large number of physicists from all over the world and is seeking to ensure that their research output can be read by others in the physics community and beyond.

Open access is much wider than just readers not paying
12 June 2006

Martin Richardson is managing director of Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, which last year announced its Oxford Open option, where authors can choose to pay to make their articles open access.

Many areas of research are funded by taxpayers but they do not see the results
12 June 2006

Matthew Cockerill is publisher of BioMed Central, a publisher that is making a business out of the open-access publishing model.

Get research authors to change their behaviour
12 June 2006

Leslie Carr of the University of Southampton, is technical director of the open-source EPrints.org software. This software is used in more than 200 institutional repositories around the world.

Academics have access anyway
12 June 2006

Michael Mabe has been Elsevier's director of academic relations for the past seven years, although he has just left to become CEO of the International STM Association. The views expressed here are from his own industry experience.

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