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Why Do R&D Intensive Organizations Use Preprints?

Author: Keri Mattaliano Preprints have become particularly popular over the past year and the reason for the uptick was, unsurprisingly, the Covid-19 pandemic. There are challenges when it comes to discerning the quality of non-peer reviewed information, as well as the ambiguity around copyright for commercial organizations. At the end of the day, there is […]

Covid-19 underlines the need for full open access

Author: Paul Boyle The fight against Covid-19 has illuminated the value of rapid and borderless access to research. But while most coronavirus studies were commendably made freely available to all, it remains a different matter for much of the world’s publicly funded university research. Change is possible, however. Publishers, research institutions and their funders are […]

A guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing

Author: Holly Else In 2018, an influential group of research funders announced a bold pledge: the scientists they fund should publish their peer-reviewed papers outside journal paywalls. The initiative, called Plan S, caused an instant uproar over its aim of ending journal subscription models — the means by which many scholarly publications have financed their […]

Publishing should be a big deal – for the right reasons

Author: Keyan Tomaselli Nowadays, publishing has become a treadmill. Everyone is expected to do it: professors, lecturers, university executives and even students. Journals now are expected by many authors simply to offer the equivalent of product displays, and few have the time, inclination, or are rewarded, for engaging in debate, for writing book reviews or […]

Centralizing, Optimizing and Cutting Costs

Author: Barbara Rad-El Academic libraries are currently facing shrinking budgets, while at the same time finding themselves having to support inefficient existing programs or novel costs. This conundrum, called “the third rail” of modern academia, is another one of the challenges with an especially significant impact on small and medium-sized libraries. Chronic budget constraints make […]