How can a university press survive and flourish when faced with constant technical change and increasingly monolithic commercial competition? In this interview, Allison Belan, Director for Strategic Innovation and Services at Duke University Press, describes her 20+ years with Duke, and …
Timelines are so ubiquitous, we take for granted how they work, and we assume they have always been around. Clearly, there is a need for a historical perspective, as …
Libraries and publishers interact all the time, but how can a library communicate its vision for scholarly publishing? We all know about the limitations of current metrics for journal publishing: all too often the much criticised journal impact factor is used, …
It may surprise some that there is more than one academic book publisher in Cambridge. Open Book Publishing, founded in 2008 by Cambridge academics Rupert Gatti and Alessandro Tosi, is one of the most successful open-access publishers in the UK. …
Octopus is a new platform for scholarly research: somewhat like a preprint server, with instant publication, but Instead of a full article, a researcher posts just a component of an article: a problem statement, …
It is a commonplace that nobody reads any more – the Web has put a stop to all that. I googled “Has the Internet destroyed reading?” and got 378 million hits, including (among …
What makes the Oxford Very Short Introductions series such a stunning success? With over eight million copies sold, they have been honoured by articles in the mainstream media: Kathryn Schulz in the New Yorker devoted a not-so-short article in 2017 to …
Simon Inger, in an interesting post on Scholarly Kitchen (July 7, 2020), makes a tantalising suggestion: an online …
Many years ago, at the start of my career in publishing, an old hand told me what, in his opinion, was the only marketing principle …
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