New Networks for Academic-Led Publishing: Interview with Mark C. Wilson

"Thinking back to his early years as a researcher, Mark C. Wilson, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, says he was giving away copyright to his articles without realizing the repercussions. Like many scholars, he wasn’t focused on the serials crisis crippling library budgets, caused by corporate publishers using opaque bundled subscription models (aka Big Deals) to charge exceedingly high prices for academic journals. That was until mathematician Timothy Gowers’ exposé of Elsevier’s Big Deal prices and the launch of The Cost of Knowledge boycott opened the eyes of many in academia, including Wilson."