Open access publishing: acting together with authors, editors, societies, and institutions | Editage Insights

"Dr. Caroline Sutton is an active expert on open access publishing and Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing. She is also Director at Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA), the managing organization of the Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ). In this segment of her three-part interview series, Dr. Sutton shares how the idea of open access publishing materialized and took its present form. She also discusses public debates concerning scholarly communication while shedding light on her role in open access publishing at Co-Action and some dynamic projects she has worked on outside of it. In the previous parts of this interview series, Dr. Sutton has discussed open access publishing and its chances for sustainability and the reservations authors have about open access journals. Dr. Caroline Sutton is Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing, an open access international academic publishing house that covers a range of disciplines. Globally networked with publishing and library communities, Dr. Sutton is a notable advocate and an active expert on open access publishing: among her many engagements concerning open access is her participation with entities such as the European Commission, where she served as Rapporteur. Dr. Sutton continues to discuss, debate, and work on many projects through Co-Action with leading research groups and figures. She developed the Best Practices Guide to OA Journal Publishing together with Lund University Libraries Main Office. Dr. Sutton holds a PhD in Sociology from Uppsala University, Sweden. (Please see the first part of this interview for her detailed bio.) In the last part of her interview, Dr. Sutton tells us all about taking action in the community as open access publishers ..."