Money and Motivation: Will Content Survive the Age of Sharing and Collaboration?
The age of collaboration indicates some adjacent sources of value are emerging. Since adjacency is relative, how can publishers ensure that the central pieces remain?
The age of collaboration indicates some adjacent sources of value are emerging. Since adjacency is relative, how can publishers ensure that the central pieces remain?
Let’s put aside all the controversy about open access publishing and come up with an OA plan that will work.
The Scholarly Kitchen is a venue for open dialog. Yet a few open access advocates consistently try to intimidate people in order to squelch discussion.
2004 = What is a blog? 2007 = What is Twitter? And for some, another mainstream technology is still a bit unknown. A lesson in the fact that your audience is not the entire universe.
A new review of the literature about open access’ effects on article citations attempts to rewrite the debate.
With Google, Twitter, Facebook, and email doing most of the work, why are we building big, expensive, multifaceted sites? Are we being strategic? Or are we in a rut?
Two major open data initiatives pose the same questions — Are data inherently useful? Can sites connect data with an audience of users to make it matter?
The 32nd SSP Annual Meeting is open for registration. Don’t miss the Scholarly Kitchen’s “Food Fight!” where bloggers come to life.
Interview with Kent Anderson on various issues concerning scholarly publishing and the life of the writer.
A study making the rounds about free e-books and their effect on sales has major flaws, both micro and macro.
Is this a watershed moment for independent publishing?
A recent study points out that science blogs are failing to provide much in the way of community outreach and education to the non-scientist public. Is this really a failure, or is it an unrealistic expectation?
Penguin is experimenting with the iPad, and sharing what they’re thinking in this video demo. It’s pretty amazing stuff.
Google exerts a strong pull in the digital realm. Is it strong enough to affect the boundaries of our thinking?
The “Power of Print” ad blitz enlists YouTube to get its message out, inviting the question: If print isn’t dead, why?