We welcome our Director of Open Science | About Hindawi

"... Hindawi is a commercial company. When PLOS (a not-for-profit company) first started, it was generously supported by funds from the Moore Foundation and subsequently by other funders. A criticism levied at PLOS was that it was able to build OA journals and be innovative because it had independent funding to support it. That criticism died down somewhat when it became financially self-sustaining in 2010 but there remains a sense that Open Access and open science is more difficult for commercial companies to implement. There is also concern that commercialization itself has been a corrupting force in scholarly publishing. A very good and recent historical analysis of this is provided in a report by Aileen Fyfe, Stephen Curry and others arguing that this has especially affected Scholarly Societies (also not-for-profit), corrupting them from their original mission of scholarship to one of income."