I'm reaching out via this listserv because I'm genuinely curious about something that seems to affect almost every academic institution — and I suspect you may have strong opinions on it.
How does your institution actually manage publication budgets today?
Not in theory — but in practice:
Who tracks which researchers are submitting where? How are APC approvals handled internally? Where does the process quietly break down?
It would be helpful to know more about your startup and your goals. Is your company strictly a for-profit enterprise? Or do you plan to share the product(s) you develop with the not-for-profit higher education community in a way that provides some value back to it (outside of access to the product itself)? To be frank, I’m reluctant to provide information in the form of market research to a startup that will later try to make a lot of money from universities (especially academic libraries) and end up being acquired by a corporate entity that has a long history of
