The recent brouhaha about HarperCollins’ policy of restricting ebook circulation in libraries misses the larger point that libraries and publishers can work toward satisfying their respective interests.
A short film showing how earthquakes occurred sporadically, then cataclysmically, around Japan.
The new Google Ebooks have made a mess of many popular classics in the public domain.
Transcribe Bentham loses its grant after six months, and has to wind down.
Alien life? Or just the will to publish, and some accomplices? While those in the field know the pecking order, those outside still get fooled.
A study of social media adoption hides some sensible lessons within a jumble of other signals.
A new report from OCLC underscores how much water is already over, and how fragile the foundation has become.
Complexity, culture, and baked-in bias are limiting how publishers define value and approach the future.
Scottie Pippen was a Beatle? Scholars a thousand years from now might just find evidence to suggest as much.
For scholars to excel in the information age, technology needs to learn to learn. Perhaps highly specialized humans can help.
The outer ring of citation remains a point of vulnerability for quality proxies, as does reducing complex things to simple lists or numbers. When will we learn?
Authors use movies and songs to inspire the titles of their papers, often to unintentionally silly effect.
A new study suggests that reference works can be created cheaply and effectively through only mildly organized collaborations. Have we been missing a critical contribution of peer-review? Does it suggest that post-publication won’t review won’t be very effective?
A study by two respected economists suggests it may be time to admit that we made a mistake attributing a citation advantage to open access articles.
Full of experimental biases and important omissions, what can be learned from the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) survey of scientists?