Two events at Oxford – the Evolution of Science debate in February 2012 and the Rigour and Openness conference in April 2013 – provided publishers with an opportunity to talk about OA from their perspective. Here we present video excerpts from two presentations that may be of interest.
During the Evolution of Science debate Alison Mitchell, Publishing Director at Nature Publishing Group, gave a talk in which she outlined the organisation’s various publishing models – full OA as well as hybrid – and described its experience of launching new OA titles. (4:22)
In her presentation at the Rigour and Openness conference Liz Ferguson, Editorial Director for life science journals at Wiley Blackwell, focused on the peer review process. She noted that the rigour with which peer reviews are conducted can be a key factor in an author’s choice of journal, and acknowledged that some researchers have feared that OA might threaten this rigour. However, she stressed that this would not be the case with Wiley Blackwell’s journals as the publisher moves forward with OA. (3:04)
You can find the full-length presentations from which these excerpts were taken, together with all of the other talks at the Rigour and Openness conference and the whole of the Evolution of Science debate, in the Open Science collection on the Oxford Podcasts website and on Oxford iTunes U.
With thanks to Joanna Wild for selecting these excerpts.
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