[…] book more like the Web, valuable as Web-like publications are. But they are different kinds of publications. The future of the long-form text, the core meaning of a book, is in making it more like itself. Open Book with Work Tool
[…] retracted papers? (What classes of retracted papers can be considered citable, and in what context?) What are the impediments to open access dissemination of retraction statuses and retraction notices? Overall about 70 people were involved: we had a three-part workshop with […]
[…] French, as well as English.” We are impressed — and exhausted — to hear about the possibilities when maximizing toward openness and inclusivity, but we also note other approaches, such as the one described by Mark Carden as he has […]
[…] developed the functionality of the crowd review solution. How can a journal participate in crowd review? We are now slowly opening the crowd review platform for more journals. Interesting journals and publishers can apply for expert crowd reviews via our […]
[…] and behaviors. Their behaviors are not dictated by the university, and in fact, the independent agents may feel free to openly resist institutional initiatives. Goals and behaviors that differ or conflict.The interests and needs of the independent agents acting within […]
[…] ways to establish trust in innovative publishing technologies, often requiring negotiations of new peer review processes. An important example is open peer review in the humanities, often discussed in conjunction with digital humanities. Likewise, projects like Brown University’s Mellon-funded Digital […]
[…] become one of the criteria used when authors choose journals in which to publish. This may be problematic for fully open access titles where a higher APC is needed to cover the costs of selectivity. Authors may instead seek to publish […]
[…] — that was clear to me and our Press Officer, but how could we take advantage of it? We were open to the possibility, but the cold, hard reality of finances would shut down our vision…at least for the present. […]
[…] be informed quickly enough and issues would be mislaid. In recent years we’ve seen articles that should be licensed for open access mistakenly lose that designation as the journal moved to a new platform. As the pace of journal transitions increased […]
[…] a lot more delightful and immersive. MR: I fully agree with Markus, as said, mostly in enhancing the content and open up new opportunities in education. Disclaimer: opinions expressed by MK and MR are their own and not necessarily reflect […]
[…] Henry Adams. It is a remarkable window into the mind of one of eighteenth-century England’s greatest intellectual figures and it opens up the period to the modern reader. Boswell is both an admiring recorder of Johnson’s extraordinary conversation and at […]
[…] might have aimed for careers as expert subject specialists instead immersed themselves in outreach to the faculty, in advocacy for open access, in information literacy and bibliographic instruction efforts, in digital scholarship, in library publishing, in copyright expertise, and in other […]
[…] us as an organization, and if there are changes that need to be made to promote diversity, then we’re very open to having that discussion. What were the main challenges you faced? Talking to a number of other women who […]
[…] subscription model, which provides recurring revenues, which I’ve argued are the best kind of revenues for a variety of reasons. Open access pressures have threatened these stable revenue sources, replacing recurring revenues with the much less attractive non-recurring revenues of article […]
[…] required to practice it, and training often comes after hiring — and it is increasingly being transformed into an activity, open to all, sometimes done well, sometimes badly, but at a volume that simply cannot be supported by a small […]