Does Access Create New Types of Scarcity?
A compelling essay points out some interesting wrinkles to the access debate.
A compelling essay points out some interesting wrinkles to the access debate.
Print aficionados and newspaper companies are rushing to bridge a chasm, but even their ACME product may not be enough.
Publishers habitually adopt a pessimistic outlook about their business, but the trends for the industry are very good. Pessimism is the real problem.
In less time than most people spend getting ready in the morning, a filmmaker created a lovely short film inspired by a great video game. Worth watching.
A recent analysis suggests some worrisome trends for librarianship.
Hitting the wallet, watch, and workload makes more sense, but Science Exchange still has some details to iron out.
The world is changing. Is academic culture an artificial and unhelpful cap on inevitable and productive innovation in communication potentialities? Or is there a failure of leadership?
A boycott is being organized in California against Amazon to oppose Amazon’s resistance to collecting state sales tax. But Amazon may be too interwoven in the world today to be effectively opposed.
Rewarding scientists with cash bonuses when they publish in prestigious journals drives up submission rates but has no effect on publication success, a new study reports.
Following users across the Web is an increasingly common way to expand ad inventory. But can scholarly publishers expect users to accept it?
Dissemination may be necessary but not sufficient as an element of an information mission in today’s world.
What happens to your online persona after you die? A surprising number of people are thinking about this.
The network effect is a peculiar thing. It can be about lolcats or insurrection. Either way, it’s a new and different power.
A bizarre evolutionary scenario gave us the most powerful tool nature has ever created.
Social media continue to evolve, with Google Plus being the most recent conspicuous entry. Scholarly publishers may find these new platforms can be useful in evolving new forms of communications.