Innovation and impact in open-access publishing

How Books Are Made

Open-access publishing models are so ubiquitous today that we forget they had to be invented first – by bold, generous publishers.

In this episode, Arthur talks to one of those inventors: Frances Pinter has been pioneering for decades, running her own academic publishing company for over twenty years, and then leading publishing programmes in Eastern Europe for the Open Society Institute. She’s been the founding publisher at Bloomsbury Academic, the CEO of Manchester University Press, a fellow at the LSE and the University of London, and founded the groundbreaking organisation Knowledge Unlatched. Today, she’s the Executive Chair of the Central European University Press.

Frances and Arthur talk about Knowledge Unlatched, her work in Eastern Europe, maintaining quality in publishing, the impact of open-access publishing on COVID research, and what it takes to start a new publishing business today.

Links from the show:

• TOC 2010: Frances Pinter, "Rethinking the Role and Funding of Academic Book Publishing"
• Knowledge Unlatched
• Open Society Foundations
• Central European University Press
• Open Climate Campaign
• Paperight