Curtis Brundy is the associate university librarian for scholarly communications and collections at Iowa State University where he oversees collections and open strategies and is active in efforts to transform scholarly communications. His research and advocacy focus on advancing equitable open access for journals and scholarly monographs, controlling prices, and increasing transparency in scholarly publishing.
In this Q&A, Colleen Campbell of OA2020 discusses the initiative’s achievements, the evolving challenges of the open access transition, and why she’s optimistic about the road ahead.
The Trump administration has launched an orchestrated attack on academic freedom, research funding, and the institutional autonomy that underpins intellectual progress. We must act now, together.
Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society are comfortable pursuing a strategy of pricing discrimination. But libraries don’t have to go along with it. This data can help.
AI is already transforming research libraries. But how can we plan for the future when the landscape is evolving so rapidly? This scenario-planning exercise helped us see our way forward.
The paper mill crisis has polluted the scholarly record and eroded public trust in science. Miriam Maus of IOP Publishing shares her view from the front lines of the fight for publishing integrity.
By making values-aligned investments in open publishing and infrastructure, academic libraries are helping to create a more equitable knowledge ecosystem
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