A Call for Simplified Tablet Publishing — "The Subcompact Manifesto"
A manifesto urges publishers to make simple, functional, and practical tablet editions, and to avoid the tendency for bloat.
A manifesto urges publishers to make simple, functional, and practical tablet editions, and to avoid the tendency for bloat.
More value can be delivered online, and members seem to be seeking it. Is it time to move to an online-only benefits model for societies?
A new paper demonstrates how easy it is to game Google Scholar citations, and how the system resists correction.
Funders and governments are exerting their influence in scientific publishing through monetary and financial threats, and are willing to slow science in order to accomplish OA goals.
In a story of the modern age of fraud, spoofers find their way into peer-review rosters, reviewing their own papers or those of their friends/competitors.
Creating a centralized database for disclosing conflicts of interest (COI) is an easy sell. Deciding who is responsible and accountable for its funding and support is a much harder problem.
Funders — corporate, governmental, and philanthropic — have different priorities, yet they are now reaching into scientific publishing, wearing OA as a glove that fits. This post explores the problems this is creating and might create if allowed to perpetuate.
In this first part of a three-part series, the intrusion of governments into scientific publishing is contemplated — its causes, current state, and possible effects.
As new metrics are explored, not everything equates to “impact.” Getting our terms right will help us get our thinking straight.
A call to participate in a survey on how books are discovered and ultimately purchased. The survey is being conducted in cooperation with O’Reilly Media.
There is an unstated theory of the e-book, which assumes that a book consists only of its text and can be manipulated without regard to the nature and circumstances of its creation. This is only one theory of many, but it is now the prevailing one.
With OA gaining momentum and hybrid and full OA policies becoming more common, article-level metadata and other standard approaches are necessary to facilitate discoverability.
While your sales reps are doing a great job overall, here are six mistakes that can creep into their interactions with buyers.
Even in the digital age, some print products are hard to give up. What is the allure?
Mobile access is reaching an inflection point, but publisher solutions to mobile access are still lagging.