[…] developing an audience for work (whether that is research, scholarship, educational works, or mystery novels). Ask any publisher – including open access publishers – what percentage of their time is spent on releasing manuscripts on their website versus working to cultivate […]
[…] how mission interplays with scale, and diversity of the publishing program. Consider how to incorporate new business models such as open access ebooks, sales by chapter, rental models, and premium services such as the ability to annotate the ebook. As you […]
[…] is going mobile and the race to control the reading interface is already well along. Librarians talk about Elsevier and open access, publishers talk about the NIH, but the future of scholarly communications has more to do with the mass infrastructure […]
[…] the costs involved in making sure what customers paid for endures. (From time to time when facing proponents in the open access debate, I’ve secretly thought that only professors with tenure could forget this fact and focus totally on variable costs. […]
[…] their commercial repository increased the citation performance of uploaded papers. Nature knew this as well when they commissioned a citation study of open access papers published in Nature Communications. While I publicly disputed both studies, these organizations understood that they could not make […]
[…] long-overdue pushback by libraries on pricing, the emergence (hand-in-hand) of Big Deal vending and consortia purchasing, the rise of pure-play open access services a la PLOS, and the ongoing critique of Journal Impact Factor. But perhaps the biggest contributor to the […]
[…] space, even after retraction, possibly still impacting research. A recent report in Inside Higher Ed noted that “predatory publishing” by Open Access journals with “questionable peer review and marketing” is on the rise. The presentation of information as factually accurate when […]
[…] discriminates against new journals, focuses on journals instead of articles, was slow to pick up on the growing body of open access literature, is calculated over a short and arbitrary period of time, and takes the broad and complex matter of […]
[…] increased in recent years. Science, and in particular life science, has driven many of the changes in scholarly communications – open access, data publishing, new models of peer review, and more. In our eagerness to meet the needs of the science […]
[…] much is specific to one segment? In the STM world there are many things that have no application elsewhere–for example, open access mandates from funding agencies–but it’s good to look for generic items. These can provide clues as to how certain […]
[…] as to how this reflects modern society. Also of interest, according to Altmetric there’s no evidence in this list that open access publishing makes an article more likely to get shared and discussed. But what altmetrics don’t tell us is much […]
[…] interpret these events very differently, such as asking a researcher the question, “Have you ever published an article in an Open Access journal?” A colleague of mine once gave some advice on how to write a cover letter for a job. […]
[…] per month within 5 years. The number of institutional repositories dwarfs the number of library publishing programs. The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDoar) consists of more than two and a half thousand entries, and those are only the ones that […]
[…] publish it they will subscribe’ approach. Journal publishing is changing though – driven largely by the move to online and the expansion of open access, which have required us to rethink who our customers are and led to competition from organizations like Google who […]
[…] jeered) that PLOS didn’t have a sound business model; some went so far as to indict the very notion of open access publishing. They were wrong. After some false starts with pricing, PLOS launched PLOS ONE, which operates on an adjusted […]