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Knowledgeblog works but lacks a business model
So, where does this leave us? Is the whole idea of knowledgeblog broken? Personally, I do not think so. While I have been critical of the cost associated with academic publishing, I am aware that it cannot happen for free. Running and maintaining a web server takes money; it is…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Leibniz withdraws his binary essay
Leibniz came up with binary numbers in about 1679, when he wrote a letter to a colleague about a “new science of numbers” on which he was working. Leibniz was soon invited by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris to contribute to their new annual publication, the Histoire de…
Bulletin February/march 2015
Data citation
The joint principles on data citation represent a new phase of activity that focuses on principled integration with the scholarly research and publishing ecosystem and a broad consensus on data citation practices. What has emerged in the publishing and research communities is…
Nature-branded Journal Goes Open Access-only: Can We Celebrate Already? | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Open access can lead to a proliferation of predatory publishers
The advancement of open access via the gold model also involves another risk: the proliferation of predatory publishers. They are the ones that make open access publishing (with payment by authors or institutions) a business where profit is maximized through the drastic…
Sick Of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
Impact factors hold back open access
These developments go hand in hand with the rise of open access (OA) publishing. Though primarily motivated by the research and societal benefits that will accrue from freeing the dissemination of the research literature, open access is also needed to optimise crowd-sifting of…
Three Steps To Heaven: Semantic Publishing In A Real World Workflow
Light semantic publishing
Semantic publishing offers the promise of computable papers, enriched visualisation and a realisation of the linked data ideal. [...] It promises a realisation of the vision of a next generation of the web, with papers becoming a critical part of a linked data environment…
Who Pays For Academic Publishing? Some Data Trails… | Ouseful.info, The Blog...
Vanity publishing as academic publishing
If you aren’t in academia, you may not realise that what used to be referred to as ‘vanity publishing’ (paying to get your first novel or poetry collection published) is part of the everyday practice of academic publishing. But it isn’t called that, obviously, because your work…
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Academic publishing needs a new system
Scientific and academic publishing is a painful process for authors, reviewers and readers alike. No one really benefits from the current system which grew because of the expense of producing, printing and distributing books. The internet and the web technologies have changed…