(13 Aug 2025) The report considers the areas of alignment and disconnect between the library and publisher communities on academic monograph publishing. While the two communities have come together on a variety of important initiatives, including new models for open access publications, they are facing different challenges and do not necessarily share the same priorities. University…
(26 Feb 2025) As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly integrated into scholarly research and knowledge dissemination, publishers face a critical challenge: how to best integrate their content into this new ecosystem. Currently, an increasing number of publishers are collaborating with AI system suppliers to license their content for large language model training, small model…
(13 Nov 2024) A new Taylor & Francis pilot aims to support open access (OA) publishing using a combination of existing funding sources, enabling authors of every article type to choose OA at no cost. Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP) has been designed as an OA solution for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) journals, especially…
(7 Oct 2024) McGraw Hill has officially launched its innovative Evergreen™ delivery model, marking a transformative shift in the traditional textbook publishing cycle. This industry-first approach allows for digital product updates to be integrated directly into existing courses, relieving instructors of the need to overhaul their course materials with each new textbook edition. The Evergreen model…
(14 Nov 2023) Article-processing charges levied by publishers on authors have become an integral — and sometimes unpopular — part of the open-access revolution. Other options are being explored. As the open-access landscape evolves, various publishing and payment models are emerging in addition to standard APCs, ranging from ones tailored to small communities of…
(24 Apr 2023) The rapid adoption of ebooks in recent years has led to greater scrutiny of pricing models. For a long time the adoption of ebooks by libraries lagged behind the adoption of ejournals, but a seismic change came with the Covid-19 pandemic. As Jack Macdonald, Director of Library Sales at Cambridge University Press…