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| Are journal prices going up or down? |
| When I describe the behavior of corporate publishers with regard to scholarly communication and tight library budgets, I usually illustrate my point with the following graph:  Clearly, subscription costs have increased exo...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 17 January 2013 - 15:00:07 |
| Scientists, the White House seeks your opinion on Open Access |
| Now, it's impossible to know if the following two events are related, but it sure is some strange coincidence. The internet right now is abuzz with talks about a new piece of legislation being introduced in the US, appar...[more] |
| Open Access OSTP RFI publishing policy politics |
| Posted on Friday 06 January 2012 - 17:29:40 |
| Open Access needs better 'Government Relations' |
| Apparently, the Open Access movement is falling behind and needs better 'Government Relations'. Today, everyone has their "Vice President for Government Relations" or some other office like that: Universities (e.g., ...[more] |
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| Posted on Sunday 08 January 2012 - 19:48:40 |
| Publishers successfully lobbying UK Lords committee? |
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| Posted on Friday 22 February 2013 - 14:57:35 |
| A fistful of dollars: why corporate publishers have no place in scholarly communication |
| With roughly four billion US$ in profit every year, the corporate scholarly publishing industry is a lucrative business. One of the largest of these publishers is Anglo-Dutch Elsevier, part of Reed Elsevier. According to...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 10 January 2012 - 13:07:36 |
| There are cons to open acces? Really? |
| UPDATE: The piece in Nature is not, as I initially thought, a new article. It was already published in 2004, but for reasons only "the no. 1 weekly science journal" knows, it always has today's date attached to it and ...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 24 August 2012 - 23:03:15 |
| STM publishers answer OSTP open access roundtable principles |
| On January 12, 2010, an expert panel of librarians, library scientists, publishers, and university academic leaders from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable issued a press release, calling on on federal agencies that fun...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 19 January 2010 - 17:36:12 |
| Who should be in charge of how scientists organize their workflow? |
| This post is distilled from several comments on "PLoS’ Squandered Opportunity" over at Scholarly Kitchen (the blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing). It builds on my previous post where I retell the story of how ...[more] |
| open access PLoS anderson scholarly publishing filter web 2.0 |
| Posted on Thursday 29 April 2010 - 16:41:03 |
| Competition in science: when is it too much of a good thing? |
| Clearly, competition is a great incentive and I think everyone can attest to that and not only from personal experience. If competition is lacking, all kinds of bad things tend to happen. For instance, in scholarly publi...[more] |
| open access publishing boycott elsevier libraries |
| Posted on Thursday 09 February 2012 - 19:01:30 |
| Let's join UC and boycott publishers who profit from public research and public funds |
| As I just learned (and now many others chime in), the University of California, cash-strapped due to the budget crisis of the once golden state, is considering a boycott of Nature Publishing Group: |
| open access nature publishers boycott scholarly publishing |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 June 2010 - 22:42:27 |