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| My library is already an open access publisher! Is yours? |
| Given the current three infrastructure crises in science, the readily available funds for mitigating these crises currently draining into the pockets of corporate CEOs and their shareholders, and ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 09 January 2013 - 15:06:15 |
| SWIB11: What Needs to Happen in a Scholarly Publishing Reform? |
| Below is the video of my presentation at SWIB11 late last year now posted on SciVee. Unfortunately, you can't see any of the slides I show, because the genius behind the camera only showed the most irrelevant component o...[more] |
| video publishing libraries swib11 |
| Posted on Friday 10 February 2012 - 18:13:59 |
| The "Research Works Act" is a distraction that works |
| You only have to search for "Research Works Act" or look for the #rwa hashtag on Twitter or follow the increasing number of people signing on to the petitions against RWA. You will see that this piece of intended US legi...[more] |
| rwa publishing publishers libraries distraction profits |
| Posted on Friday 27 January 2012 - 18:09:56 |
| 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 |
| 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] |
| open access publishing costs profits publishers libraries |
| Posted on Thursday 17 January 2013 - 15:00:07 |
| What could we afford if corporate publishers wouldn't make any profit? |
| Richard Grant at Naturally Selected recently posted his take on some recent discussions around scholarly publishing. In a comment, he mentioned that non-profit organizations may not be suited for scholarly publishing. I ...[more] |
| scholarly publishing publishing corporations greed money profit libraries |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 March 2011 - 13:48:09 |
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