Do Search Engines Owe Publishers? A German Proposal Raises the Question
Should search engines license content for crawling? A potential German law thinks so.
Should search engines license content for crawling? A potential German law thinks so.
Patron-driven acquisitions programs may supplant inter-library loans for ebooks, which in turn could get more publishers to support both PDA and ILL.
Strategy is difficult, especially when the fundamental premise of strategic business decisions may have changed. Wiley and Worlock appear on the stage contemporaneously to offer examples.
A now-famous poster was printed in large quantities but almost lost to history. Here’s what happened.
In a business environment characterized by risks, upstart innovations, and even contempt for the law, publishers have to ward off threats the old-fashioned way, by out-innovating their rivals and preempting new services.
A little library has big plans, and you can help.
A recent study of preservation practices for digital materials raises fundamental questions that aren’t so easy to answer.
In the world of science blogging, there are those who cite the literature, those who don’t, and never the twain shall meet.
A new report for the Center of Economic Development suffers from a strong bias in its authorship. But beyond that, its implicit complaints, if addressed completely, would lead to a trainwreck in the world of scholarly communication. Is nobody thinking these things through?
A profile of predatory author-pays OA publishers pulls a punch or two, but reveals that all models have extremes. What we do to make these extremes truly marginal and unacceptable is a larger question.
The future of copyright will apparently involve catching up with technological change, cultural expectations of fairness, creative pressures for re-use, and many other factors. The Chefs cook up an interesting set of scenarios and ideas on this month’s question.
In the world of social media, when you huff, and you puff, and you blow a house down, there are new consequences.
We used to have editorial selection and ordering as a natural result of editorial control. With algorithms and news feeds dominating, where are the signals of priority and linked information? Did we really need the packaging?
The Scholarly Kitchen turns four. Are we losing our ability to be provocative, interesting, insightful, and engaging? We’re just getting started . . .