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Researcher-led, spun out of UCL in 2012
… to be commercially viable to compete effectively
with large publishers
… to be able to grow and build a top team,
independently of funding
Privately-owned, for-profit:
Over 30 partner presses and libraries
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Personal experience
The large legacy publishers do not operate in the
public interest.
1. As an employee of a legacy publisher
2. As a researcher at a university
3. As an open publisher
This perspective comes from three sources:
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The Social Contract of Academia
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Data, software, hardware,
wetware…
• Results
Source: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/2003-05-01
Unconditionally Open
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Institutional customers
Must demonstrate community
values and provide guarantees
Determine who we will integrate
and work with
STEERING BOARD
Verify that charter is upheld in
significant investment or acquisition
PARTNERSHIP RULES
Community Driven
Notas del editor
Researchers communicate differently to other people. Central to this is the social contract of science.
We agree to disseminate our work widely, allowing others to validate it and build upon it.
The best and arguably only way to do this effectively is OA, so we are an OA publisher.
If you don’t do this, it can be termed scientific malpractice, and it applies not only to results.
