Lessons for Publishers: Listen, Learn, and Experiment
In less than a minute, essential advice for survival today and success tomorrow.
In less than a minute, essential advice for survival today and success tomorrow.
The Webby Awards’ People’s Voice competition is now over, and our little blog made a respectable showing, thanks to all your support.
The first day of the Spring STM Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was filled with ideas, different perspectives, and an interactive crowd.
The e-book age is here — infrastructure, readers, storefronts. Publishers should heed the warning signs and stop delaying the inevitable.
The OUP has launched Oxford Bibliographies Online, hoping to filter major fields down to a high-quality, peer-reviewed reference kick-start. But does a wordy filter actually filter in the networked world?
Positive research results may indicate that the scientific system is working efficiently.
The Public Library of Science was once a radical force, but is now dependent on author-pays bulk-publishing for its livelihood, which introduces all sorts of problems for every journal publisher. What went wrong?
The failure of the traditional music industry has become the standard cautionary tale for content industries adapting to a digital era. But for scholarly publishers, many factors make the music industry a poor comparison. We have more in common with smaller niche markets. Watching their electronic experimentation and new business models may be more informative as we seek new strategies for presenting and selling content.
A collection of 20 library signs says a lot about the trials and tribulations of librarians. Patrons do the strangest things!
Wearable computers are coming, and many are already around us, with biometric, social networking, gaming, and health applications. Which one will you wear?
If consumer web sites remain the source of most health information, there is little that FRPAA will do to improve the transmission of research to the public.
A new Pew Research report shows that news media — print and broadcast — vary in their attitudes. But a deeper attitude about how the news should be presented may be their ultimate vulnerability.
Examine what you’re quoted carefully. Some commonly held views of the world are based on misappropriated quotations.
Mobile computing is the norm, but it also creates easy trading ground for our privacy. Is this just the new normal?
A quick overview of how to vote for the Scholarly Kitchen’s Webby Award nomination. Help shine a light on scholarly communications around the world.