“Timothy Gowers is boycotting Elsevier and hopes to spark reform that will replace expensive journals with a more rational system. For many years, I, like several other mathematicians, have been careful not to submit papers to journals published by the huge publishing conglomerate Reed Elsevier. Our reasons will be familiar to many readers of Times Higher Education …” (more)
[Times Higher Education, 16 February]
“I have waded into the waters of e-publishing and believe I will have a result within 10 days of laying down my first cursor on text. The focus of my work involves taking products that are in one format and giving them a more compelling look for Kindle …” (more)
[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View from Ireland, 8 February]
“Along with a team of third level students from the Limerick Institute of Technology, I listened to editor Eoin Purcell describe how electronic publishing is disrupting the print industry. I brought my Kindle to the table and listened …” (more)
[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View from Ireland, 1 February]
“Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s new book, Planned Obsolescence, may at first glance seem an act of betrayal from within the ranks of the Humanities. Is it time, she asks, to declare the traditional academic monograph dead? …” (more)
[University of Salford, 9 January]
“… Most journals, he notes, will not allow comments on articles. Pieces can’t be revised after publication. They’re locked up behind digital gates, so no one can link to them. And multimedia work? Forget it. But much scholarship thrives outside that system, Mr. Cohen says, in formats like lengthy blog posts and the ‘gray literature’ of conference papers. On Wednesday, the professor announced a new publishing platform to showcase the best of that online work …” (more)
[Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 June]
“The usual hype about new e-toys is familiar territory with e-books. Writing in 2008, before Kindle was launched (bK), Mark Nelson was writing in Educause that ‘some experts predict 2007 – 2009 will be the transition years for the higher education e-book market’. Obviously this hasn’t happened here …” (more)
[Is this going to be on the exam?, 28 February]
“With this first issue of the year, Cell launches a new format for online presentation of all research articles. This ‘Article of the Future’ initiative reflects our commitment to evolve the concept of a scientific publication in step with the development of new technologies and functionalities both now and into the future …” (more)
[Cell Press Beta, 7 January]
“Everyone knows the publishing industry is made up of dinosaurs, but academic publishing is the Brontosaurus. Academic journals are slow, expensive, inaccessible and non-transparent. And there’s absolutely no reason they need to exist anymore …” (more)
[Jon Smajda’s Blog, 7 January]
“Although quoting yourself is generally considered tacky, I’ve been involved in several recent activities and discussions I’d like to share with you. These largely arose from Publishing on the Semantic Web, a column that Tim Berners-Lee and I coauthored in Nature back in 2001. In that column, one of a series of opinion pieces about academic publishing’s future, we discussed the Semantic Web’s potential impact. We ended with this somewhat brash statement …” (more)
[James Hendler, Scholarship 2.0, 6 August]
