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Weekly News Digest
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July 30, 2026 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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The Scholarly Kitchen Looks at the Types of OA Business Models
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, founder and principal of Librarian in the Loop, LLC, writes the following in “Categorizing Open Access Business Models” for The Scholarly Kitchen:In my view, models for funding open access journal article publishing can be sorted into three categories, organized by who pays and what they pay for: transactional, collective action, and subvention. These categories do not describe the ‘color’ of the resulting article—all of them produce a ‘gold’ article, i.e., the version of record is open on the publisher platform—but the financial mechanism that funds it. Sorting the models this way does not make them simpler than they are. The complexity is worth tracking. But it helps to clarify what is actually different from one arrangement to the next, and therefore what is at stake when a library or a publisher chooses among them. For more information, read the blog post.
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