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Thumbs Down for the Freemium Model? Researchers Reject Nature’s Fast Track Peer Review Experiment

Nature conducts an experiment in paid fast track peer review, and the research community responds with concerns over creating an unfair tiered system for publication.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 5, 2015
  • 21 Comments

Macmillan + Springer: Some Lessons to Learn, Some Twists to Watch

The merger of Macmillan and Springer holds many lessons and some interesting twists. More than anything, it indicates a future in which scale continues to confer advantages.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 20, 2015
  • 11 Comments

Is Open Access a Cause or an Effect?

Why can’t researchers agree on whether Open Access is the cause of more citations or merely associated with better performing papers? The answer is in the methods.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Aug 5, 2014
  • 21 Comments

Does Creative Commons Make Sense?

Axiomatically more complicated than copyright, built to provide no legal cover, and possibly put in place by the technocrats in Silicon Valley, does Creative Commons make sense for the creative class?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 2, 2014
  • 44 Comments

"By Scientists, For Scientists" — Deconstructing a Misguided, Misleading, and Thoughtless Cliché

A common marketing cliche turns out to be empty of anything but rhetorical power when examined more carefully.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 28, 2013
  • 12 Comments

Low-Hanging Fruit and the Re-Ordering of the Value Chain

As new business models emerge and funding sources change, can professional societies and not-for-profits respond? Or will they keep their heads buried in the sand?

  • By Alix Vance
  • Jan 17, 2011
  • 6 Comments

The Latest “Library as Purchaser” Crisis: Are We Fighting the Wrong Battle?

More flames on the site licensing frontier, and why these battles are a sign of a fundamentally flawed — and possibly soon-to-be irrelevant — arrangement.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 14, 2010
  • 26 Comments

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