This month we look at some factors driving publishers to consider a move toward Open Access publishing, explore business models to support OA beyond the now ubiquitous Article Processing Charge (APC), and share an interview with Raym Crow, an industry expert working with not for profit and commercial publishers to define alternative business models for… Read More
Although many societies and associations offer hybrid options within their journals, launching a fully open access journal, or “flipping” an existing journal to fully open access, presents an organization with questions, challenges, and opportunities. The breadth of the decisions to be made cover a wide range of activities from editorial selectiveness to pricing models to… Read More
With Flexibility, Publishers Can Turn the OER Boom To Their Advantage. Here’s How. By Roy Kaufman The newest twist in educational publishing—Open Educational Resources or OER—is dramatically disrupting textbook publishing, and conventional wisdom holds that these resources may even replace traditional textbooks all together. Case in point: in just four years, Eureka Math, an OER… Read More
Watch as Dan Pollock demonstrates the versatility of the Delta Think Open Access Data & Analytics Tool, showcasing data and analysis from our Megajournals and Large Multi-Disciplinary Journals (LMDJ’s) topic. The video covers article output and year over year growth in aggregate and for a subset of selected journals. … Read More
It seems that everyone we talk to is thinking about their digital strategy. It makes sense. Most not-for-profit organizations that offer their customers (e.g., members, non-members, physicians, researchers, clinical researchers, policy makers, the interested public, patients, etc.) a multitude of services and content-focused products do so through several internal departments. Historically, these departments have acted like independent… Read More
In working on the next Ask The Chefs post for the Scholarly Kitchen, I remembered a post I had written back in 2006 (yes, I was blogging in 2006). I found it on my old Typepad blog and decided to repost it here. There are certain management theorists and practitioners that I follow. I read… Read More
We LOVE it when publishers extol the virtues of good project management. Thanks Kent! A Head of Schedule — The Increasing Importance of Project and Portfolio Management … Read More
This morning I published a post on SXSW over on the Scholarly Kitchen. Here’s an excerpt: Sometimes you need to magnify something to see it clearly, and Elon Musk is the magnification of curiosity, exploration, and optimism. He described everything from the thruster problem that delayed the space station docking of the SpaceX Dragon capsule, to… Read More