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On The Marginal Cost Of Scholarly Communication | Read.science.ai
High quality “plug-and-play” open source software solutions would have a significant impact in reducing the marginal cost of scholarly communication
We assessed the marginal cost of scholarly communication from the perspective of an agent looking to start an independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. We found that various vendors can accommodate all of the services required for scholarly communication for a price ranging…
Prof.dr. B. Mons
Evolution of web publishing
The period in which ‘web publishing’ apparently meant ‘putting dead PDF’s on the Internet’ is as good as over. However, the so called ‘article of the furture’, in fact not more than a mishappened Christmas tree of hyperlinks in the text that was originally meant for reading, is…
Confirmational reading
The use of scientific literature and databases is rapidly shifting from ‘exploratory’ reading to ‘confirmational reading’ to check elements of the hypotheses that massive data analyses throw at us. This requires a very different role for scholarly communication and this is not…