Mellins-Cohen Consulting
Charting a course for a changing world
OPEN-ACCESS
We’re closing
From the 1st of August 2026, I’m saying goodbye to Mellins-Cohen Consulting. I want to send out a huge “thank you” to all of the wonderful clients I’ve worked with in the five and half years since I set up solo. Getting involved with the trials and tribulations (and data-crunching) of dozens of different organisations has been a privilege, but now it’s time for the next adventure! If you’d like to stay in touch, you can find me at COUNTER Metrics (https://www.countermetrics.org/).
Publishing nerd, Open Access advocate and conference knitter extraordinaire…
Since joining the scholarly publishing community in 2001, I have held roles within learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial and executive functions, while donating time to key industry initiatives and bodies such as UKSG, ALPSP and STM. That broad overview gives me a deep understanding of and appreciation for the changing pressures on the knowledge community, from publishers to libraries, funders to researchers.
I believe that not-for-profit, community-led publishers like learned societies and university presses have an opportunity to play a bigger role in the future of scholarly publishing, making sure that it is fit for the next generation of researchers, and launched Mellins-Cohen Consulting in 2020 to help.
In 2022 I stepped up from volunteering to run COUNTER, the standard for usage metrics, alongside my consulting work – so I don’t provide consulting services on COUNTER compliance, as it would be a conflict of interest.
