Taylor & Francis

Winning Strategies for Journal Publishers
March 14, 2016 at 2:19 pm

It’s three years now since I posted “The Inexorable Path of the Professional Society Publisher” and I thought it was time to revisit it. What’s always troubled me about that post is that it takes the view of the underdog — that is, of the small or mid-size professional society publisher — which is struggling…

In Fight Over Academic Publishing House, Fear of Corporate Values
December 2, 2015 at 2:26 pm

When Ashgate Publishing was bought last summer by Informa, a large corporation, some academics feared for its future. What would happen to the family-owned publishing house, which had spent four decades building a reputation for social responsibility and close relationships with its authors? In November those fears started coming true. According to a Change.org petition…