Series
Interview with Dr. Caroline Sutton
Understanding open access publishing and its chances for sustainability
Where is the scholarly community headed with open access publishing and how sustainable is its economic model? Open access advocate and former President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, Dr. Caroline Sutton discusses in this interview how the community is responding to open access and shares her thoughts on its sustainability. Dr. Sutton actively leads discussions about open access with a number of scholarly boards and organizations.
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Aug 25, 2014
A skeptic’s guide to open access
What reservations do authors have towards using open access journals? How do open access journals manage peer review quality? In this second segment of her interview, Dr. Caroline Sutton, active expert on open access publishing, discusses how far open access criteria have come and how skeptics’ views have evolved.
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Aug 31, 2014
Open access publishing: acting together with authors, editors, societies, and institutions
Dr. Caroline Sutton is an active expert on open access publishing and Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing. She is also Director at Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA), the managing organization of the Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ). In this segment of her three-part interview series, Dr. Sutton shares how the idea of open access publishing materialized and took its present form. She also discusses public debates concerning scholarly communication while shedding light on her role in open access publishing at Co-Action and some dynamic projects she has worked on outside of it. In the previous parts of this interview series, Dr. Sutton has discussed open access publishing and its chances for sustainability and the reservations authors have about open access journals.
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Sep 4, 2014
