The Internet promised a revolution, but we may have only deepened our rut as a number of factors have combined to constrain innovation and change our customer focus.
The Scholarly Kitchen proudly announces its podcast. Happy listening!
More internal PubMed Central emails show quite clearly that PMC is wasting taxpayers’ money solving problems publishers have already solved.
Social networking and crowdsourcing have attributes that may make them both incompatible with the goals and process of science. Can we accept that?
When a popular and iconic product is ended, the outrage doesn’t match the pragmatism and agility we all espouse. TOC’s end is one such example.
Eighteen years ago, Mosaic ushered in the potential for a sea-change in publishing based on technological prowess and scale. Today, the “open” label covers a set of disparate incentives under a single blanket, one that funders, government, and technology companies are all under, each for its own reason.
The OSTP access memorandum has led to hearings this month. Be sure to contribute and observe.
When a mother watches a famous mind-bending sci-fi movie and then has to retell it, the results are lovable and hilarious.
A summary with slides of a presentation for the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP). The argument is that professional societies are now fighting on three fronts: with the new open access mandates, with the large commercial competitors, and sometimes internally when governance is an issue.
A meeting about annotation services and software shows how new tools may be on the horizon, and reminds us that our audiences are likely to be the heaviest users once these emerge.
A stable satellite monitoring the sun reveals three years of images, a comet, a transit of Venus, two partial eclipses, and more as the sun approaches its solar maximum.
The Digital Public Library of America has launched, and it is an impressive achievement that is bound to grow over the coming years.
Editor’s Note: This post is being republished to coincide with the launch of the Digital Public Library.
The recent sale of Mendeley exposed surprisingly naive perspectives on the company’s clear and inherent goals. Other venture capital plays are afoot in scientific publishing and academia. When will we stop being the prey?
An interview with designer Michael Bierut, about the history of typography, its current manifestations, the power of habituation, and why Parma matters.