Predatory practices pose problems for new publishing models
How did you become interested in so-called predatory journals and publishers? I’ve been an academic librarian since 1990 and have always been interested in…
How did you become interested in so-called predatory journals and publishers? I’ve been an academic librarian since 1990 and have always been interested in…
The past couple of years have seen a rush of new national and funder initiatives and mandates in the area of open access (OA).…
Institutional repositories (IRs) play a key role in open-access policies and programmes – and in showcasing an institution’s activities.‘Institutional repositories are evolving; initially they…
Juliane Ritt, executive vice president for OA/marketing services at Springer Open-access publishing has spread globally, but a key challenge remains in educating researchers about…
Kamila Markram, co-founder and CEO of Frontiers Our approach has always been much more than just providing free access to research. The whole publishing…
Dave Ross, executive publishing director, OA, SAGEOur strategy has always been to engage actively with OA. Very early on we entered a partnership with…
Nicola Gulley, editorial director, IOP Publishing IOP is involved in three pilots – at a country level in Austria, at a subject level with…
Alexander Grossmann, president, ScienceOpen We launched Science Open in 2013. I don’t like to think of this as gold or green. It’s simply OA,…
Georgina Gurnhill, director of marketing & communications, PeerJ PeerJ was launched in February 2013 to establish a highly credible, scientifically sound peer-reviewed OA journal…
Alicia Wise, director of access and policy, Elsevier Elsevier has changed quite a lot in OA over the past 10 years. We now have…
Victoria Gardner, OA publisher, Taylor & Francis / Routledge Journals One of our objectives around embracing OA is that our approach is very much…
Mark Patterson, executive director, eLife In 2003 when I started at Public Library of Science (PLOS) it was a very different world from when I…