Interview With a Ghost (Writer)
A bone-rattling interview with someone who may haunt the medical literature.
A bone-rattling interview with someone who may haunt the medical literature.
Bob Stein has proposed a taxonomy for social reading, which refers to all the conversations and comments that take place about a book.
Have the results of the open access book experiment already been written?
Users are gaining a “me at the center” expectation, but publishers have a “we at the center” world view. Can the wrenching changes be made? David Worlock worries maybe not.
If openness is an ideological tenant of science, why are scientists so secretive?
The passing of the “father of fractals” allows us to contemplate complexity in our lives, especially our economic lives.
Updated long-tail research shows that Amazon’s tail is growing, thanks to customers using search engines and user reviews more. How does that make you feel about the Google Books settlement?
A recent Atlantic article has cast doubt on high-impact medical research. But is the article accurate? Or is it biased itself?
Stating that open access journals publish papers with “sound methodologies” promotes an unrealistic view of the scientific process and a corrupted image of the editorial and peer-review process.
A major publisher finds users like the iPad, spend more time with it, but don’t carry it around and encounter usability problems.
In the Internet age, the GPO celebrates print with a comic book — a video worth watching for its throwback charm.
Amazon’s latest play is aimed squarely at academics. Will it revive the moribund monograph market?
McLuhan posited “the medium is the message.” Is it still? GenY might teach us a thing or two.
BMJ Open is marketed as high-volume journal of rejects. Did BMJ miss on marketing or is this the future of open access publishing?
Publishers still have to sell iPad content via single-issue apps. When will a subscription app finally be allowed?