Independent advice for publishing, knowledge and digital businesses
We turn change into progress.
fullstopp helps leaders make clear decisions, build resilient business models and turn transformation into measurable progress. The work draws on more than 25 years of experience—while staying curious, open and ready to learn.
What we do
Deep sector knowledge.
Clear judgment.
Direct, independent and hands-on support—from the first strategic question to implementation.
Consulting
Strategy, positioning, business models and transformation grounded in industry reality.
Advisory
Independent counsel for owners, executives and founders facing high-impact decisions.
Entrepreneurship
Support for building, validating and scaling new ventures and services.
Strategic Investments
Market screening, strategic fit and alignment between established companies and start-ups.
Artificial Intelligence & Business Models
From capability to
viable business.
Artificial intelligence can lower costs, improve products and create new revenue—but only when it is embedded in a coherent value proposition and a sustainable business model.
Product & Value
Identify where AI solves a real customer problem, improves an existing offer or enables a genuinely new service.
Economics
Test data, compute, workflow integration, pricing and margins before technical possibility is mistaken for commercial viability.
Rights & Trust
Design for intellectual property, provenance, governance and transparency—especially in publishing and knowledge markets.
We help publishing and knowledge businesses identify defensible use cases, test commercial assumptions and build models that remain Strategic investments From Berlin, fullstopp has built an international portfolio across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific—supporting founders and specialist teams in publishing, research infrastructure, media, AI-enabled research services and digital knowledge products. Since April 2025 · Auckland, New Zealand Since February 2025 · Hamburg, Germany Since September 2024 · New York, United States September 2024 — February 2026 Since June 2024 May 2024 — December 2025 Since March 2023 Since January 2023 Since December 2022 Since 2022 April 2022 — December 2025 Since December 2021 Since October 2020 Since May 2020 Since June 2016 March 2016 — December 2021 · Acquired by Wiley December 2015 — June 2022 November 2015 — January 2022 · Exit at the end of the investment phase November 2015 — August 2019 · Exit at the end of the investment phase Publications DOI links lead to the respective publication records; access conditions may vary. 2026-01-14 | Preprint Septentrio Conference Series · 2024-11-04 | Journal article Information Services & Use · 2024-08-23 | Journal article Minerva Cardiology and Angiology · 2024-06-01 | Journal article Bibliotheksdienst · 2021-10-05 | Journal article 2019-10-08 | Report Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis · 2019-08-06 | Journal article Bibliotheksdienst · 2019-08-05 | Journal article Against the Grain · 2019-01-24 | Journal article Against the Grain · 2019-01-24 | Journal article Against the Grain · 2019-01-24 | Journal article UKSG eNews · 2018-12-07 | Magazine article Against the Grain · 2018-12-01 | Journal article Against the Grain · 2018-11 | Journal article Society of Scholarly Publishing · 2018-05-14 | Interactive resource ScienceOpen, Inc. · 2018-01 | Journal article Praxishandbuch Open Access · 2017-05 | Book chapter Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis · 2017-04-01 | Journal article Bibliotheksdienst · 2016-01-01 | Journal article ZfBB · 2014 | Journal article Learn. Pub. · 2013-01-01 | Journal article ZfBB · 2011-08 | Journal article ScienceOpen, Inc. · 2009-03 | Book chapter ScienceOpen, Inc. · 2009-03 | Book chapter ScienceOpen, Inc. · 2009-03 | Book chapter Klaus G. Saur – Die Berliner Jahre · 2009-01 | Other 2000 | Book BIBLIOTHEK Forschung und Praxis Bibliotheksdienst Book Insights Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis Blog Short observations on publishing, digitality, strategy and change.International by design.
Litmaps
dskrpt
Atom Grants
Sylla
Signals
Anywyse
Knowledge Gate Group
Chime
Ex Ordo
Reviewer Credits
UNFIA
SISTRIS
SciFlow
Zapnito
JoMI
Knowledge Unlatched
Sample of Science
Labiotech.eu
Inkitt
Writing & research
2026
Startups to watch – Innovators of tomorrow
Open DOI ↗2024
Openness and Transparency in Peer Review
Open DOI ↗Is the tail wagging the dog? Understanding the value of incentives in peer review
Open DOI ↗Recognition and reward in peer review: The ReviewerCredits vision
Open DOI ↗2021
Neue Wildnis in geordneten Märkten
Open DOI ↗2019
Open Access Monographs in the UK: A data analysis
Der Conférencier der Wissenschaftsverlage: Arnoud de Kemp zum 75.
Open DOI ↗Das Große Abendländische Schisma im Open Access: Warum Bücher und Zeitschriften angeblich so unterschiedlich sind – und das dem Modell schadet
Open DOI ↗Choosing Independence or Feeding the Beast? The Big Deal and Small or Society Publishers
Open DOI ↗Learning from Knowledge Unlatched 2016: Making OA Work
Open DOI ↗Misleading Perceptions of the Open Access Book Market
Open DOI ↗2018
Open access: closing the loop
Open Access in Its Next Phase: From Single Products to Marketplaces
Open DOI ↗Stop, Look, Listen – OA Books Funding: The Next Phase
From Supermarkets to Marketplaces
OPERAS Open Access Business Models White Paper
Open DOI ↗2017
Querfinanzierung von Open Access und Print
Open DOI ↗Von der Digitalisierung zur Digitalität: Wissenschaftsverlage vor anderen Herausforderungen
Open DOI ↗2016
Open Access entlang bekannter Erwerbungspfade: Knowledge Unlatched
Open DOI ↗2014
Forschungsinformation und Bibliothek aus der Perspektive der Wissenschaftsverlage
2013
We need integrated publishing
2011
Kommentar aus Sicht eines Wissenschaftsverlegers
2009
Der große Wissenschaftsverleger
Open DOI ↗Frontmatter
Open DOI ↗Klaus G. Saur und die Altertumswissenschaften: Etappen einer Annäherung
Open DOI ↗Inhalt
Open DOI ↗2000
Grammatiken der Macht
Undated
De Gruyter Open Library – Das Open Access-Modell eines Universalwissenschaftsverlags für Bücher und Zeitschriften
Integriertes Publizieren
Klaus G. Saur – Die Berliner Jahre
Profile – Sven Fund
Will Open Access Change the Game?
A Thousand Words
Every entry stays under 1,000 words.
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