[…] future with a revenue model that may be more variable than expected. A change in research funding levels, competition from higher profile open access journals, as well as from those offering lower-priced alternatives, may make it difficult for the publisher to rely on PLOS ONE […]
[…] Association of America (pMLA), which incidentally, is a subscription journal. Interestingly, less than 60% of titles published under contract are open access, suggesting that library publishing is maturing as a business and is no longer (if it ever was) purely about […]
[…] the Office for Creative Research discuss the Art of Data Visualization. As editors, publishers and researchers, we need to be open to new ways of furthering understanding and willing to experiment to improve communication. Mouse spinal chord MRI images visualized […]
[…] track of work done on their campuses, and publishers want to disambiguate the universe of scholarly authors, ORCID , the Open Researcher and Contributor ID is the “killer app.” Now is an important time for all of these communities to […]
[…] published by university presses. This is in part a coincidence, as I recently participated in a plenary session (“Not Just Open Access”) at the AAUP annual conference. I am not going to summarize my entire presentation here, though I am embedding […]
[…] a publisher has to think harder about the potential connections between the publishing enterprise and the roiling communications of the open Web and social media. I don’t know what a fully-optimized Web presence for a university press would look like, […]
[…] there was much discussion among MLA Board members & headquarters staff about how to make the journal available electronically, preferably open access. The various options that had been identified so far were all in the $20K plus range annually (which, despite […]
[…] is simply mind-boggling to think that a half-dozen commercial firms did not beat PLOS to the punch with an author-pays open access service; they even had the model of BioMed Central to learn from. When publishers go to the tenure committee […]
[…] angry reaction, including legislative action and the creation of rival materials that draw on many of the precepts of the Open Access movement (usually called OER for open educational resources). And it’s true: college texts are indeed being disrupted, but the […]
[…] be a good idea for PLoS to publish a transcript of their Board discussions concerning this management transition. Let’s be open about open access. Enhanced by Zemanta Scales of Justice – Frankfurt Version Scales of Justice – Frankfurt Version Enhanced by Zemanta
[…] Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications. The goal was to use Scribd as part of viral marketing campaigns. Shortly thereafter, ScribD opened their “Scribd Store”, which sells view and download access to documents and books. Why was Scribd successful in taking […]
[…] of the costs of producing journals by Richard Van Noorden broke journals into print + online, online-only subscription, and online-only open access (OA). I believe a more meaningful cost comparison would revolve around the resources deployed to accomplish peer review — […]
[…] (Photo credit: filmhirek) (Please be aware, this article was posted on April 1st) The Research Councils UK (RCUK) policy on open access (OA) comes into effect today. One of the major questions has been exactly how the so-called block grant will […]
[…] and intellectual independence has been the disclosure of potential conflicts of interests (COI). Researchers and physicians should be free to open their hands (and their pockets) to industry influence, but they need to be completely transparent about these relationships. Readers […]
[…] coming from the program will be published: PLOS will publish all studies validated through the Reproducibility Initiative in a special open access Reproducibility Collection. This will provide you with a second independent publication for your replicated results in PLOS ONE. “A […]