Category: Publishing

Building Open Infrastructure at TU Delft Library

July 2024 sees the launch of a new version of TU Delft’s Repository. It is a landmark moment in TU Delft Library’s commitment to openly built infrastructure, sitting next to other work already done in this area. Our previous repository was also open infrastructure, built around the Islandora software. But after ten plus years of..

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The $1 Trillion Paradox: Why Reforming Research Publishing Should Be a Global Priority

“Our research system is a perplexing paradox. Each year, approximately $1 trillion of public funds are spent on research worldwide. Whole careers are spent making incremental improvements to research methods. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on a single clinical trial. And yet, the global system for sharing research results is a costly mess…

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