[GOAL] Interview with Ashley Farley of the Gates foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is a private foundation launched in 2000 by Bill and Melinda Gates. According to Wikipedia, it is the largest private foundation in the US, and currently holds $40.3 billion in assets. In 2014, the foundation announced the most radical OA policy to date. The

[GOAL] MDPI annual report 2017 has been released

Dear all, On 9th of February 2018, MDPI released its 2017 Annual Report. It contains information regarding company and journal performance, conferences and the publishing services that we have provided throughout 2017. To read or download the report, please click http://img.mdpi.org/data/ar-2

Re: [GOAL] MDPI annual report 2017 has been released

Dear Franck, Thank you for posting this. Am I right in thinking that the report does not include any financial information about MDPI? If that is right, do you not think it should, or that MDPI ought to publish a financial overview in the way that PLOS does? https://www.plos.org/financial-overvie

Re: [GOAL] MDPI annual report 2017 has been released

Thanks Richard, You are right that there is no financial information in this report. We want this report to focus on the progress relevant to scholarly communities. The financial information is a different aspect that I prefer to address separately. We are preparing a simple finance oriented r

[GOAL] COAR publishes recommendations for next generation repositories

(please excuse the cross-posting) COAR publishes recommendations for next generation repositories Browse Technologies In November 2017, the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group published a report outlining new behaviours and technologies