The Internet: A Warning From History
The residents of 2068 look back at The Internet, one of the greatest disasters to befall mankind.
The residents of 2068 look back at The Internet, one of the greatest disasters to befall mankind.
The question addressed here is not whether we in the academy should “take back publishing” from the commercial scholarly publishers, but rather what the options for doing so might be, and whether any of those options seems feasible at the moment.
Three academic groups have jointly floated a draft proposal in response to the US Government’s OSTP Public Access mandate memo.
More indications of favoritism and cronyism, this time stretching back from F1000 Research to BioMed Central, and more mismanaged conflicts of interests. The common thread may be a new “old boys” network.
The college textbook business is being disrupted, but not by outsiders. The publishers themselves are restructuring the industry. One consequence of this may be diminished prerogatives for instructors in their choice of classroom texts.
The Wu-Tang’s GZA Teaches Kids Science With Least-Lame Classroom Rap Ever.
Lars Bjørnshauge talks about where the DOAJ is going.
Are we witnessing the decline of the open access megajournal and a return to a discipline-based model of publishing?
In this episode, Scholarly Kitchen Chef David Smith, Head of Innovation with CABI’s Plantwise initiative, talks with podcast host Stewart Wills about some of the recent news from Google’s annual I/O conference — including thoughts on Google Glass as a […]
This is a slide presentation on freemium marketing, which was delivered at the 2013 SSP conference. The key argument is that freemium marketing is a form of product sampling, which must be integrated into the overall marketing plan.
Lessons learned from Mike Walsh’s keynote speech at the Special Libraries Association Meeting.
Here is how CHORUS works, in its simplest form.
A surprisingly charming short film about a world where books have gone extinct.
Like rock and roll, Open Access is here to stay but, as with rock and roll, it doesn’t always live up to its own hype.
The university press world is operating under circumstances that are somewhat tighter than they were even a few years ago. While most presses now publish ebooks, ebooks in themselves do not provide a strategic path to growth.