Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing

Joe Deville, Jeroen Sondervan, Graham Stone, Sofie Wennström
2019 Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries  
The authors, who all have experience with academic publishing, outline the landscape of new university and academic-led open access publishing, before discussing four interrelated sets of challenges which are often referred when questioning the viability of such publishing ventures. They are: (1) professionalism, (2) scale, (3) quality, and (4) discoverability & dissemination. The authors provide examples of how, albeit differing in size, form and ambition, these new presses are not just
more » ... g to conventional publishing norms but often innovating in order to surpass them.
doi:10.18352/lq.10277 fatcat:mm53mq4jobcinb6qlmv3b3qpxe