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Guest Post — One Publisher to Rule Them All? Consolidation Trends in the Scholarly Communications and Research Sectors

Author: Jon Treadway and Sarah Greaves The story of mergers and acquisitions in scholarly communications is one dominated in the last 10 to 15 years by a series of eye-catching vertical acquisitions by publishers, content aggregators, and database providers which have expanded their services. These mergers have blurred traditional roles and reflect a strategy of […]

How to end the hegemony of English in scientific research

Author: Juan Miguel Hernández Bonilla 95% of all articles published in scientific journals in 2020 were written in English, and only 1% in Spanish or Portuguese. These figures were disclosed by Ángel Badillo, senior analyst on Spanish Language and Culture at the Spanish think tank Real Instituto Elcano, during the presentation of the preliminary conclusions […]

Guest Post — Why the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy Probably Won’t Work

Author: Shaun Khoo The Plan S Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) just sounds too good to be true. Anyone, whether mandated by their funder or not, can add a sentence or two to their article asserting a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) that will allow them to treat the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version of […]

Publication or Innovation? Goal displacement and lessons from the publish-or-perish culture

Author: Harry Van Dalen Drawing on a survey of academic economists in the Netherlands, Harry van Dalen¸ explores how publish or perish culture is perceived and enacted within academia. Arguing that the current arrangement of the academy along lines that promote outputs (publications) displaces both the goal of more intrinsically motivated forms of scientific innovation […]

Preprints Are Not Going to Replace Journals

Author: HASEEB IRFANULLAH At a recent meeting, a debate was held on the motion: Preprints are going to replace journals. Since 2016, the number of preprint servers has rapidly increased and now stands at more than 60. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of preprints, as a vehicle for open science, has widely been discussed, […]