Open Access Is A Business Now

Dec 17, 2014 | Copyright

According to a recent industry report from Simba Information, Article Processing Charges (APCs) – the fees that publishers collect from authors for making their work available under “Open Access” rules – are expected to grow 80% from 2014 to 2017. Indeed, the report...

Open Access And Societies – Case Studies For Success

Nov 19, 2014 | Copyright

While Open Access is helping mission-driven publishing societies to disseminate knowledge, it is also causing them to re-evaluate their financial business models. On Tuesday, October 21, Deni Auclair, Vice President & Lead Analyst, Outsell Inc.; Esmeralda Galán...

Congrats, You’ve Got a New Media Hit!

Nov 16, 2014 | Copyright

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it,” declared H. James Harrington,...

Scholarly Societies And Creative Commons Licenses

Nov 5, 2014 | Copyright

Do you know your CC-BY from your CC-BY-NC-ND? As funders roll out mandates globally for Open Access archiving of public research, scholarly societies have a responsibility to understand the OA licensing options mean. No two licenses are the same. The one you choose...

Innovations in Global Rights Licensing

Oct 29, 2014 | Copyright

As traditional sales channels have declined in the digital era, publishers and other content providers have moved to market and distribute their work in innovative and flexible ways. Success in this new environment relies on automated licensing tools that support...

Recycle, Remix, Resell

Oct 26, 2014 | Copyright, Events

From the title, you might think we attended an environmental conference for a session looking at waste management as a strategy to drive incremental profitability. Instead, the program was a part of CONTEC 2014, held just before the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair....

Fall & Frankfurt Mean Global E-Book Report Update

Oct 19, 2014 | Digital Transformation, International

National e-book markets are like snowflakes.  No two are alike.  Emerging markets particularly engage in approaches of their own.  In India, domestic platforms lead the way; while in Brazil, Apple shows a surprising lead in eBook distribution over the usual suspect....

Open Access: Who Holds the Power?

Oct 12, 2014 | Copyright, Events, International

Frankfurt is the birthplace of book fairs, and of sturm und drang –  or at least, it is the birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in Frankfurt in 1749. Goethe embodied German Romanticism, which enobled sturm und drang – storm and stress – as the iron-hard...

Authors As Team Players

Oct 5, 2014 | Digital Transformation

There may be no “I” in team, and usually, there isn’t an author either. Authors have long prized their authority, enjoying total control not only over their writings, but also control over the reader’s experience. Novelists and others who have made the trip to...

Knowledge Governance Calls For Information Balance

Sep 21, 2014 | Copyright

Across the globe, politicians and pundits trumpet the knowledge economy, but few have ever bothered to examine with any rigor the success-to-failure ratio of national and international intellectual property law and regulations. Arguing that private and public...