Scholarly Futures
Jon Treadway, Sarah Greaves, Ruth Francis, Phil Garner, Emma Green, Dr Dawn Langley, Lou Peck, Kamran Naim, John Hammersley, Mark HuskissonAn exploratory project to debate the uncertain future of scholarly communication, research practices, and academic publishing amid accelerating change.
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Echoes from another place
Some time ago, I asked a well known LLM to create a weekly digest that would identify recently published materials relevant to a Substack I was working on. I provided a link to our ‘About page’ to provide some additional context. Sarah and...
From Infrastructure to Commons
Our next guest post is from Mark Huskisson writing a response to Kamran Naim’s post, From Buying Access to Building Infrastructure: Why Open Access Must Move Beyond Transformative Agreements. Working at the intersection of international pol...
AI and the practical scientist
A guest post from John Hammersley providing reflections from attending the AI for Maths and Open Science conference held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science, University of Cambridge, 30th March to 1st April 2026. As with...
From Buying Access to Building Infrastructure: Why Open Access Must Move Beyond Transformative Agreements
As with all of our articles, this post reflects the views of the author and we hope will stimulate some discussion and conversation around big questions in scholarly communications.
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Consolidating and merging: new partners emerging in an ever changing market
Consolidation is not new in the industry, yet this week there is an example of an unusual and largely unanticipated merger. BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press announced their merger yesterday with the details set out in a Scholarly K...
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Transpontine serial dabbler
Scientist, feminist, cold water swimmer, SEN advocate, passionate about making change happen
An STM publisher with a track record in developing and implementing change to improve productivity and performance. Have held senior leadership positions with Informa and Future Science Group. Phil is Co-Founder & CEO of Becaris Publishing.
I have 26+ years in STM publishing, with roots in conservation genetics and marine biology. At IOI, I coach open infrastructure orgs on financial planning, business strategy, and sustainability while facilitating cross-sector collaboration.
Lou Peck, CEO, The International Bunch, is a key voice in marketing, accessibility, and schol comms. Immersed in the research ecosystem since 2000, she’s an ADHD advocate and speaker known for challenging norms and pushing meaningful impact.
Head of Open Science @ CERN
Currently focused on personal projects. I co-founded Overleaf, which I led as CEO for almost a decade before moving into a broader role at Digital Science. I’ve also worked on driverless taxis (Heathrow Pod) and have a PhD in Mathematical Physics.
Open infrastructure, open source, publishing tech, international policy and diamond open access, I am Strategic Advisor to Public Knowledge Project, Co-Chair of the Assembly of the Commons for OPERAS, and owns the strategic consultancy HSK Agency Ltd
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