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| Can we justify the involvement of corporate publishers in scholarly communication? |
| Most academic research is funded publicly. As such, we owe it to the tax-payer to justify the way we do science as the most cost-effective way we can practically operate. While this of course may not always be realistic ...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 07 February 2012 - 19:05:47 |
| Dr. Fields at the Huffington Post is wrong on open access |
| Dr. Douglas Fields penned an article at Huffington Post on open access. There are so many factual errors, false analogies and misleading statements in this article, that I need to highlight just few of the 'wrongest' sta...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 21 November 2012 - 17:16:18 |
| Let's help academic publishers in their quest to put themselves out of business! |
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| Posted on Monday 11 February 2013 - 10:27:44 |
| Against own assertion, Elsevier doubled price for access |
| In their open letter in response to the growing boycott movement, Elsevier asserted that it had lowered cost of access:...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 11 February 2012 - 14:04:35 |
| The future of scholarly publishing is bright - if you think long term |
| The future is bright - it's the present which sucks. I planned to post this as a comment, but it turned out to be too long. Moreover, Richard Poynder seems to moderate his comments, so I thought I'd just post the comment ...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 08 March 2011 - 01:29:31 |
| 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] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 09 March 2011 - 13:48:09 |
| Open Access taking off, part I: illusions |
| Open Access is really taking off these days, at least if measured by the number of people chiming in with opinions, visions and concerns. Today saw not only the ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 17 January 2013 - 10:19:03 |
| Libraries are better than corporate publishers because... |
| In the wake of the Elsevier boycott, some are asking if we should change our publication system and if so, how. In search for an answer to this question, I've been thinking about the best place to keep the works of acade...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 17 February 2012 - 16:10:14 |
| On 'adequate' peer-review |
| I'm starting to dig a little deeper into the recent 42 page tome of Richard Poynder on scholarly publishing today. Not sure how much more time I can spend on this, though. This post will be mainly about the first half ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 09 March 2011 - 21:47:31 |
| 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 |