Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Amy Brand - The Scholarly Kitchen

"Today, we talk to Dr. Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of the MIT Press, one of the largest university presses in North America, publishing books and journals across science, technology, art, and design. Amy received her doctorate in cognitive science from MIT and held a number of positions in scholarly communications, higher education, and information access at MIT, Digital Science, Crossref, and Harvard University, before returning to the MIT Press as Director in 2015. She serves on boards of several publishing and media organizations, and was executive producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary Picture a Scientist, a film that portrays gender inequality in science. Some of her awards include the MIT Laya Wiesner Community Award, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award, and the Award for Meritorious Achievement issued by the Council of Science Editors....

I’m most excited to see the open access conversation becoming less polarized and more practical. The focus today is less on the moral justification for open knowledge and more on how we make high quality publishing accessible and affordable in sustainable ways...."