The collapse of media is captured succinctly and brilliantly in this interview with Bob Garfield, an Advertising Age critic, NPR personality as co-host for “On the Media,” and author of “The Chaos Scenario.” This interview with Chris Kinneally nicely sums […]
Today’s guest post is by Meagan Phelan of AAAS, who asks: If more research is openly available than ever before, and open is framed as a way to build trust, why isn’t public trust in science at an all-time high?
[…] document exemption apply to archival material offered for research purposes by the university archives? For instance, scans of early campus newspapers or early board of trustees records?” In the Federal Register, the DOJ provides an example where a library makes […]
[…] array of publishers and content providers, including a great deal of the scientific literature, as well as ebooks, digitized books, newspapers, primary sources, images, audio, video, and so forth. There are four services that fall into this category, owned […]
[…] that even this is no longer true. In every other case there has been either unlimited inventory available (magazines and newspapers) or limits that have rarely, if ever, been reached (radio, cable and spot TV). Spanfeller’s right. In print, if […]
[…] friend asked me whether I wanted to join the local book shop team. What a heavenly offer! Instead of schlepping newspapers through my hilly village regardless of rain and storm, I would be stacking shelves with the latest novels at […]
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health are widely discussed in the media, but responsible discussion is vital, and academic publishers have an important role to play. Please be aware that this article talks about suicide.
Sabine Louët and Karla Fallon discuss how to realize the opportunities for better communicating research results to a broader audience.
Two videos offer tips on separating the actual research done in medical studies from the often over-hyped media coverage.
Thanks to a major new international research study, it’s no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention. The question is: do we have the will to confront it?
Amateurs with similar machines as professionals have emerged before. Instead of travel, this time, it’s information.
[…] problem created by the previous one. There’s a frenetic process of distraction through our devices that draws us away from newspapers, magazines and books, out of conversations with smart people from whom we could learn. You note that Facebook undermines […]
[…] preprint servers, as well as lower editorial standards. Innovation has arrived with subscription businesses, from metered paywalls generating millions for newspapers to the Wall Street Journal’s new predictive paywall. Another harbinger of change is WIRED’s move to the subscription model, […]
[…] these has anything to do with print. The subscription model is not dead outside of publishing. In fact, subscriptions to newspapers surged when people began to worry about “fake news.” Millennials are even paying for subscriptions to news services. Now, […]
Science’s historical progress can’t be assumed. It has to be reclaimed, re-established. That’s more difficult in a fragmented information space geared for extremism.