Sponsorship in the research and library communities is pervasive today, and scholarly publishers are some of the most generous providers of...

Many of us join causes and movements at different times in our lives, if only because we like to feel part of something bigger than ours...

(A print version of this interview is available here ) Fifteen years after the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative ( BOAI ) t...

In calling for research papers to be made freely available open access advocates promised that doing so would lead to a simpler, less cos...

There has always been a contradiction at the heart of the open access movement. Let me explain. The Budapest Open Access Initiative ( ...

In November I reported that PLOS CEO Elizabeth Marincola is leaving the open access publisher in order to take up a position as Senior ...

While many, many words have already been spilled on the manifold implications of the surprise win of Donald Trump in the US presidential...

I HAVE POSTED AN UPDATE PIECE ON THIS HERE . On 31 st October, PLOS sent out a surprise tweet saying that its CEO Elizabeth Marincola i...

The introduction I wrote for the recent Q&A with Clifford Lynch has attracted some commentary from the institutional repository ( I...