Profile: Matt Day, Head of Open Publishing « Librarians « Cambridge Journals Blog

"Matt Day says that his newly-created role of Head of Open Publishing and Data at CUP, although it focuses strongly on Open Access journals, is about openness more generally, including transparency and the reproducibility of the content that CUP receives from authors. On behalf of the Press, he will be launching new Open Access journals as well as creating policies and services for academic output, including data. As a university press, Matt says that CUP is tuned in to trends in academic libraries ‘but we want to further develop our conversations with them to understand their pressures and goals and to explore possible partnerships and collaborations’. Matt sees that many academic libraries are looking at their roles in data preservation. The collection and free dissemination of the data underpinning research is a key goal of both governments and research bodies, but it presents some challenges. By its nature data is a heterogeneous thing, so it’s never going to be completely standardised. However, technology companies have invested in making data come alive and publishers are now becoming more sophisticated at getting data into the academic record. Matt says that providing Open Data lags behind the provision of Open Access, but that both are ‘on the same broad trajectory’ ..."