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NFT Technology versus Subscriptions – The Battle for Ownership of Digital Content

NFTs are the next phase in the ongoing tension between forces supporting subscriptions and those supporting ownership of content

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 22, 2021
  • 7 Comments

What is the Blockchain Really, and Should You Care? A Guide for the Perplexed Scholarly Publishing Citizen.

Here’s your 12 point guide to blockchain. Written for non-technically minded scholarly publishing folk

  • By David Smith
  • Jun 27, 2019
  • 13 Comments

Can Blockchain Withstand Skepticism? An Inquiry

The buzz around blockchain is mounting. But does it fit with scholarly publishing’s incentives and practices?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 5, 2018
  • 10 Comments

Everything* You Always Wanted To Know About Blockchain (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Love it or loathe, blockchain is making the headlines everywhere! But what exactly is it? Does it really have a role to play in scholarly communications? If so, what and how? In this interview, Joris van Rossum (Digital Science) and Martijn Roelandse (Springer Nature) answer these questions and more.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 3, 2018
  • 29 Comments

Fixing Instead of Breaking, Part Three — Blockchain, RA21, Privacy, and Trust

We continue to battle the tidal wave of data with a bucket brigade of individual privacy settings. Maybe it’s time to pause and consider a state-level solution, ala Estonia.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 23, 2018
  • 7 Comments

Publishing in a Time of Information Warfare — A Wakeup Call

The information war requires changes — new research priorities, new personal and professional boundaries, higher editorial hurdles, and a hardened infrastructure.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 3, 2017
  • 15 Comments

Bitcoin: A Solution to Publisher Authentication and Usage Accounting

The technology developed to create a crypto-currency may be used to solve two intractable problems in scholarly publishing: authenticating users and counting usage.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 1, 2016
  • 16 Comments

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