Why would academic publishing houses be any less profit-driven than JK Rowling’s publishing house? In an era of continuous digital innovation, even pre-COVID-19, the relationship between academic authors and publishers …
You have to love the delightful paradox with academic publishing, where at the same time that we want to claim ownership of our research, data, and discoveries through a global …
At the beginning of the lockdown in March, we gladly reported that our partner JSTOR is keeping up the good work and providing expanded access to their platform to support …
Extreme situations call for extreme measures, no doubt. To give away for free other people’s content and pointing at Covid-19 as the ultimate excuse, is extreme, indeed. This is, apparently, …
While Amazon is pulling its focus off books, and onto the more vital aspects of its business, there are ways for you to find new reading material. Yes, in times …
An excellent article from Publishing Perspectives’ Spring Magazine, ‘Publishing in a Time of Crisis,’ on the current situation, and the questions we may all ask ourselves: what is it that …