[…] to manufacture relatively small changes in JIF scores. Last, it may be very difficult to manage journal output for an open access journal using an APC model and novelty-free acceptance criteria. For example, the journal Medicine, published by Wolters Kluwer published […]
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[…] make reference linking scalable. Crossref was designed to be resolutely neutral, forming no opinions on politically sensitive issues such as open access, subscription models, etc. Ed Pentz came from one of these publishers, Academic Press, where he was heavily involved with […]
[…] which abets cronies and bullies publishers, and the many universities that have passed mandates for their faculty to publish in open access (OA) venues. A smart authoritarian (like Microsoft) does not aspire to the Totalitarian, knowing that real value is generated […]
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[…] developing an audience for work (whether that is research, scholarship, educational works, or mystery novels). Ask any publisher – including open access publishers – what percentage of their time is spent on releasing manuscripts on their website versus working to cultivate […]
[…] how mission interplays with scale, and diversity of the publishing program. Consider how to incorporate new business models such as open access ebooks, sales by chapter, rental models, and premium services such as the ability to annotate the ebook. As you […]
[…] growing awareness among publishers that data science represents a next stage for the evolution of STM publishing. It is an open question how publishers will pursue this and what resources must be brought to bear on the opportunity — and […]
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[…] is going mobile and the race to control the reading interface is already well along. Librarians talk about Elsevier and open access, publishers talk about the NIH, but the future of scholarly communications has more to do with the mass infrastructure […]
[…] the costs involved in making sure what customers paid for endures. (From time to time when facing proponents in the open access debate, I’ve secretly thought that only professors with tenure could forget this fact and focus totally on variable costs. […]
[…] their commercial repository increased the citation performance of uploaded papers. Nature knew this as well when they commissioned a citation study of open access papers published in Nature Communications. While I publicly disputed both studies, these organizations understood that they could not make […]
[…] organized crime and malicious hackers, with Sci-Hub phishing schemes possibly just a Trojan horse used to get credentials that crack open university systems generally. As one speaker pointed out, not only does sharing credentials violate contracts the university has agreed […]