Nicholas Loubere is an associate professor in the Study of Modern China at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. He co-edits the fully Open Access Made in China Journal (Australian National University Press) and writes frequently on issues related to open science and academic publishing. His most recent article on this subject is published in the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies under the title ‘The New Censorship, the New Academic Freedom: Commercial Publishers and the Chinese Market’.