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Posts by Lesley Macrae

What challenges face societies and editors looking for a new publishing platform for their journal?

In recent years several journals have seen editors walking out due to disagreements with their host publishers. This has often led to the editors beginning new journals where they can have more autonomy. In 2023, editors of eight journals all left due to disputes with their publishing companies. Mass Resignations…

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Law Archive - making legal research equitable and open

In a week where we celebrate International Open Access Week and muse on the theme of Community over Commercialization, let's take a look at how the Law community is embracing "open" as a way towards equitable access.

Preprint servers are not new. But they may be undergoing a bit of…

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Change ahead for profiteering publishers?

Is this the beginning of the end for the era of excessive profiteering by publishers?

2023 has been a year of unrest at many commercial journals run by major publishers. Does this signal the start of a pushback against high publishing charges and are some of the alternative (non-profit)…

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