fullstopp FLASH: Re-connecting science and society, the Publishers’ Forum, and real news
by Sven Fund Managing Director
Posted on April 24, 2017 at 11:53 AM
This was an exciting week for science: in over 500 cities around the world, people marched for science. But what for actually? Awareness, evaluation, politics? Read Marcel’s short analysis of the March for Science. Not enough, this week starts exciting as well: the Publishers’ Forum 2017 kicks off in Berlin and Sven is there. Still […]
Continue Readingfullstopp FLASH 11: Open Access infrastructure, created demand, and digitality
by Sven Fund Managing Director
Posted on April 10, 2017 at 10:48 AM
Welcome to the eleventh edition of fullstopp FLASH. In this week’s issue, you’ll find some key providers of Open Access infrastructure, listed by Felix, the key concept of a new publication by Sven, and the question whether demand can be created, which Marcel once tried to answer in a keynote on disruption. Reach out to […]
Continue Readingfullstopp FLASH 10: fullstopp’s Strategy Workshop, Open Access, and Change
by Sven Fund Managing Director
Posted on April 03, 2017 at 09:42 AM
Welcome to the tenth edition of fullstopp FLASH. Today, we tell you a little bit about a great strategy workshop fullstopp organised last week. Moreover, you find some insights into discoverability, open access, and spring as the encouraging time to move forward.
Continue Readingfullstopp FLASH 9: Open Access and Active Change
by Sven Fund Managing Director
Posted on March 27, 2017 at 12:28 PM
Welcome to the ninth edition of fullstopp FLASH. Today, you can read about Open Access – in acceleration generally and too slow in HSS. Furthermore, Felix Evert proposes a roadmap to change. We wish you an interesting read and a good start into the working week.
Continue Readingfullstopp FLASH 8: London Book Fair Review
by Sven Fund Managing Director
Posted on March 19, 2017 at 20:18 PM
Welcome to the eigth edition of fullstopp FLASH. With a busy week just closing, we hope you all had a good fair. We had loads of meetings and conversations – below, you’ll find a glimpse of our impressions. Let us know about your LBF impressions or whether something left you unsettled!
Continue Readingfullstopp FLASH: London Book Fair Ahead
by Sven Fund Managing Director
Posted on March 12, 2017 at 18:43 PM
Welcome to the seventh edition of fullstopp FLASH. With the London Book Fair ahead, all three of us are looking forward to a great week in the Brexit-shaken capital of the UK. Yet, with the headline “Taking Words Further”, the fair points to the right direction: Create the future of publishing, push the boundaries, and […]
Continue ReadingKnowledge Unlatched – Scaling Up In 2016
by Sven Fund Managing Director
Posted on March 11, 2016 at 10:02 AM
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is pleased to announce that it is expanding and scaling up. There will be several announcements over the next few months about KU’s greatly expanded new collections.
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Academic Self Publishing – Transparent, Fair, Independent
by Sven Fund Managing Director
Posted on January 18, 2017 at 09:04 AM
Self-Publishing has truly changed the role of authors in publishing. Alike, in academic publishing, Open Access has set off a liberation of researchers: Authors have many options apart from just choosing different publishers. Along the whole publishing process, they can choose according to their skills and interest which tasks they want to take on themselves […]
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