Today’s journal marketplace is in a very different position than it was five years ago, with publishers and libraries openly experimenting with different models that carry with them a hope or a promise of a transition away from the traditional reader-pays model and the prevailing author-pays open access model. Press releases from publishers, libraries, and consortia herald transformation and new and exciting approaches, but the reality is far more complicated. This panel will bring together perspectives from research universities, small liberal arts colleges, and publishers to discuss and explore disparate perspectives and approaches to these emerging models. Panelists will discuss their current approaches, where they see the marketplace headed, the obstacles they see facing publishers and libraries, and whether any of the approaches in the marketplace truly address the crises that continue to plague scholarly communication.
Today’s journal marketplace is in a very different position than it was five years ago, with publishers and libraries openly experimenting with different models that carry with them a hope or a promise of a transition away from the traditional reader-pays model and the prevailing author-pays open access model. Press releases from publishers, libraries, and consortia herald transformation and new and exciting approaches, but the reality is far more complicated. This panel will bring together perspectives from research universities, small liberal arts colleges, and publishers to discuss and explore disparate perspectives and approaches to these emerging models. Panelists will discuss their current approaches, where they see the marketplace headed, the obstacles they see facing publishers and libraries, and whether any of the approaches in the marketplace truly address the crises that continue to plague scholarly communication.
Doug Way is the Dean of Libraries and William T. Young Endowed Chair at the University of Kentucky. He has previously held positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Grand Valley State University. Doug as written and presented widely on topics related to the use and management of library collections and scholarly communications. He has a bachelor’s degree from Grand Valley State University and a master’s degree from Wayne State University.
Sara Bosshart is Head of Open Access Journals at the Royal Society of Chemistry where she is responsible for driving the growth of Open Access across the organization. Previously, Sara was Open Access Publisher at IWA Publishing where she successfully transitioned the entire portfolio of 15 water-related journals to Open Access through a variety of different OA models including Subscribe to Open, Read & Publish and APC. Originally a marine geologist, Sara began her career in publishing at Frontiers where she helped to launch a suite of new OA journals in the Life Sciences and spearheaded the launch of the Frontiers London offices. Sara is half Swiss, half American and calls London home.
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