[…] of publishing, but incumbent publishers are not always in a position to benefit from it (the disruptive technology challenge) The open access and “information wants to be free” movements undermine marketing programs and pricing even as they add new costs for […]
[…] could become more heated. Depressingly, the supply-side pressure will be increasing while the demand-side ability to pay will stagnate: For open access publishers, funding from authors could slowly dry up. While there can be significant latency between austerity and diminished funding […]
[…] For STM publishers, it’s just as difficult to avoid the anti-publishing trends (devaluing content, missing the message from users/subscribers). The Open Access movement is implicitly anti-publishing — essentially, the value proposition is that content is so worthless that you have to […]
[…] is there really a need these days to save someone one click to the abstracts on our own sites? For open access publishers, the risk of abstracts keeping readers away is similar — after all, what does it matter to the […]
[…] to Congress. So where does this leave things? Judge Chin did not reject the settlement outright — he left things open for further attempts at getting things right. He does suggest that most of the issues with the settlement can […]
[…] consortia and cooperatives have taken similar steps. How has HarperCollins responded to the uproar? Awkwardly. In a remarkably tone-deaf “ open letter to librarians” , HarperCollins explained that “our prior e-book policy for libraries dates back almost 10 years to […]
[…] will either — in a Swiftian moment — get swallowed up by the rich or take the leap into author-pays open access publishing. Let’s imagine a library with a serials budget that up until a few years ago seemed to be […]
[…] to go back to their desks. It wasn’t an ideal usability arrangement. Now, another path for integration seems to be opening — the QR Code on mobile platforms. One big difference this time is the ubiquity of mobile computing thanks […]
[…] Community Colleges,” led by Dr. Jill Biden — wife of Vice President Joseph Biden and a community college instructor for 17 years. Opening remarks came from President Obama, who described his plan to foster an additional 5 million community college graduates by 2020 and emphasized […]
[…] many scientific controversies, the argument over citation diversity will move toward consensus and closure. For the meantime, the debate remains open. Postscript (January 6, 2009) In the January 2nd issue of the journal Science, Larivière et al. published a letter […]
[…] digital commercial marketplace and giving it back to publishers, librarians, and users. His talk was not about free content or open access. Kahle sees commerce as providing the incentives for getting content online. He just thinks that the process should should […]
[…] users will be able to surf the Web, play games, watch movies, view their photo collections, listen to music, watch TV, send e-mail, work on a presentation, or access over one hundred thousand applications that do any number of distracting things.
NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.
An interview with the University of Utah librarian and Scholarly Kitchen Chef Rick Anderson about the potential impact of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Sensors are being applied to mobile phones, which will launch a new suite of publishing opportunities. By aggregating and interpreting the data uploaded from these mobile sensors, publishers can create new services and open up new markets.