[…] the library and perusing the shelves long ago, we’d imagine that recent changes in journal publishing since the mid-2000’s ( open access publishing, broader access to papers from non-publishers’ websites and repositories like PubMed Central, article sharing services like Mendeley, easier […]
The Internet rewards scale and creates clear competitive disadvantages for niche businesses. Now that a long-term economic downturn has made for starker realities, the effects of this basic set of facts seem inevitable.
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Three Scholarly Kitchen chefs talk about the uses and misuses of the term “disruption” in describing what’s going on in the scholarly publishing market.
Green Open Access can lead to the cancellation of subscriptions to journals. The environment for OA, however, is full of nuance and resists easy characterization.
[…] question: What if more than papers were online? Or, more pointedly, does anyone care about the finished paper anymore? The Open Access debate has largely been about trying to change what traditional publishers do with traditional articles. In fact, to show […]
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Scholarly Kitchen chef Alice Meadows discusses the challenges, and opportunities, for scientific societies in an Internet era.
[…] public bailout. Peer-review, technology, and even running a basic business creates expenses — Of course, one of the lessons of open access (OA) publishing has been that even what seems to be a Valhalla of free information turns out to be […]
An advocate for alternative metrics for article impact takes stock of where they are now, and where they’re going.
[…] From Elsevier’s perspective, the deal is accurately described as, “Elsevier Acquires Mendeley.” However, because Mendeley has been a darling of open access (OA), which inevitably brings with it some anti-Elsevier sentiments, the deal may also be interpreted as, “Mendeley Sold Itself […]
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