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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]
publishing   scholarly communication   services   corporate publishers   
Posted on Tuesday 07 February 2012 - 19:05:47

Libraries and their faculty should join forces against corporate publishers

I've recently argued that libraries are in a perfect position to take over from current commercial publishers: they're already publishing our theses, ancient texts, data and many of our papers in institutional repositori...[more]
libraries   publishers   scholarly communication   
Posted on Tuesday 28 February 2012 - 13:10:34

Social filtering of scientific information - a view beyond Twitter
ResearchBlogging.org
It's not information overload, it's filter failure (Clay Shirky)

Bonetta (2009) gave an excellent introduction to the micro-blogging service Twitter and its uses and limitations for scientific communication. We believe th...[more]
FriendFeed   Twitter   Facebook   scholarly communication   social filtering   Web 2.0   
Posted on Thursday 07 January 2010 - 17:11:37

Libraries have all it takes to replace publishers

I've written a few times already about why I think (university) libraries are in a perfect position to take over scholarly communication from corporate publishers. Among other things I've mentioned that they already publ...[more]
open access   publishers   publishing   scholarly communication   
Posted on Friday 22 June 2012 - 14:52:31

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