SCOAP3 and Access to Scientific Literature
I have been following the developments of SCOAP3 , which is one of the more enterprising organizations in the Open Access world. SCOAP3, an acronym for Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing...
View ArticlePutting Science into Science Publishing
Having gotten caught up to some extent in the Open Access debate over research publications, I am continually astonished by the lack of objectivity and the sheer partisanship of many of the...
View ArticleCory Doctorow Meets the Giant Behemoth
Cory Doctorow has some interesting things to say about the Amazon Kindle in The Guardian. Doctorow doesn’t like it much, as it doesn’t conform to his view of the Internet, which includes the ability...
View ArticleThe Baby and the Bath Water
The University of Pittsburgh Press has just made an extraordinary announcement. The Press plans to make its entire backlist available for free online two years after formal, print publication. Here is...
View ArticleOpen Access, re Journals vs. Books
The Inside Higher Education link that Peter Brantley recently sent to a list, regarding the open-access Museum Anthropology Review, reminded me of some distinctions I like to make, when given the...
View ArticleProvostial Publishing
On one side we have user-generated content (UGC), exemplified by Wikipedia; on the other we have traditional publishing, which is characterized by an editor or series of editors (acquiring editor,...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Free
Paul Krugman has an interesting column on the future of publishing, in which he notes (citing Esther Dyson) that in a digital world where copying is easy and perhaps unstoppable, electronic books will...
View ArticleAlmost Open Access
A recent announcement by Knowledge Exchange appeared on Yale’s liblicense mailgroup. It describes an innovative collaborative project by which universities and governmental sponsors work together in...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Truth about Scholarly Publishing
On June 20 of 2009, I gave what I consider my most significant speech to date, at the Association of American University Presses’ annual meeting, entitled “Scholarly Publishing in the New Era of...
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