Ask Andrew Preston what impact his company, Publons, has had on the complex, changing world of peer review, and he quickly answers, ‘I don’t know if I am the right person to answer that question’.
Interviews
08 October 2013
Ron Mobed, CEO of Elsevier, shares his thoughts on research trends, open access, and publisher profit-margins
07 August 2013
Subscription costs can be a challenge for researchers in small companies. William Park, CEO of DeepDyve, explains why he sees rental as part of the solution
30 May 2013
In April the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) opened its virtual doors for the first time. Executive director Dan Cohen reveals more
09 April 2013
Towards the end of 2011 a group of Finnish academics came up with a new approach to the peer-review process. The result is a company called Peerage of Science. We find out more from one of its founders and managing director, Janne-Tuomas Seppanen
05 February 2013
Government policies on research, open-access discussions and the role of different information sources are important topics. N V Sathyanarayana, chairman and managing director of Informatics (India), gives a perspective of the industry in India
05 December 2012
Steve Miron, senior vice president of Wiley's Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly business reveals why he is excited about the potential of open access
15 October 2012
Peter Philips has recently become chief executive of Cambridge University Press. We asked him about his vision for the industry
14 August 2012
Former astrophysicist Ian Mulvany has recently moved from Mendeley to take on the role of head of technology at the new open-access journal eLife. He talks about the vision for the funder-funded venture and the economics of open access
07 June 2012
Michael Clarke is executive vice president for product and market development at Silverchair Information Systems
11 April 2012
Vicky Reich, director of the LOCKSS programme at Stanford University Libraries, and Randy Kiefer, executive director of the CLOCKSS archive, explain why preserving digital content is a challenge that needs to be tackled, especially as this content becomes more dynamic
09 February 2012
Sven Fund is managing director of De Gruyter. We asked him about the company's recent purchase of Versita, open-access plans and internationalisation of content
08 December 2011
TEMIS has recently launched the latest version of its Luxid product for semantic enrichment. Eric Brégand, chief executive officer of the company, tells us how this can help publishers