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The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Paul Royster is proud of what he has achieved with his institutional repository. Currently, it contains 73,000 full-text items, of which more than 60,000 are freely accessible to the world. This, says Royster, makes it the second largest institutional repository in the US, and it receives around 500,000 downloads per month, with around 30% of those going to international users. Unsurprisingly, Royster always assumed that he was in the vanguard of the OA movement, and that fellow OA advocates attached considerable value to the work he was doing. All this changed in 2012, when...
Open and Shut?.

Interview with Malcolm Burrows

What do you think are the biggest challenges to the scientific community?
There are many aspects that currently make science an unattractive career to enter. We need urgently to make it more attractive to young people by enabling them to develop their own ideas, and that means giving them access to funding early in their career. The support of large groups should be tempered and more support given to individuals with great ideas and to those willing to tackle important and difficult ideas with uncertain outcomes.

Peter Suber on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

Peter Suber in an interview with Richard Poynder on open access and it's future challenges. Peter Suber is the Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, a Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Senior Researcher at Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Research Professor of Philosophy atEarlham College, and a non-practicing lawyer. His most recent book is Open Access(MIT Press 2012). For more information, see his home page.

Interview with PeerJ Editor Fabiana Kubke

This is the second in our Series of Interviews with PeerJ Editors, giving them a voice to express their thoughts about academic publishing, open access and PeerJ. This time around we spoke to Fabiana Kubke who is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences (Department of Anatomy with Radiology) and a member of the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

The drug industry doesn’t work

The drug industry doesn't work

Ben Goldcare elucidates what’s wrong in the pharma industry.

The fixes are fairly simple, really. We need to make sure that all results from all clinical trials are always published, with no exceptions. What’s more, we need to go and dig up all the results from trials that were run in the past, because those are the trials that were done on the drugs that we are currently using.

The Economist (The Q&A).

Digital access to knowledge: Research chat with Harvard’s Peter Suber

Digital access to knowledge: Research chat with Harvard’s Peter Suber

“Imagine what would happen if all journalists who write about scholarship had access to primary sources themselves,” Suber says. “Imagine if they could put links to primary sources in their publications, and imagine if readers could click through for free online to those primary sources.”

Journalist’s Resource.

The OA Interviews: Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science

The OA Interviews: Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science

Here is an interview with PLoS Founder Michael Eisen.

On whether pre-publication peer review should be abandoned?

“This I think we can and should more or less completely do away with — leaving only a very thin process for screening submitted articles to make sure they’re appropriate and real works of science.”