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After academics worldwide began a boycott against Elsevier, this publisher claimed it would mend its ways and treat mathematicians better. Why just mathematicians? Maybe they didn’t no…
I've finally gotten around to carefully reading the recent article put out by the AAP that suggests that prices of journals have not increa...
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Nice overview of why the Big Deal is a problem!
Service that tracks when journals transfer from one publisher to another. RSS feed available.
Explains why journal prices are the way they are.
The university is finding it "increasingly painful" to manage academic-journal subscriptions, which annually cost it about $3.75 million, Mr. Garber said. In a move watched throughout academia, Harvard in April urged its faculty members to publish in open-access journals. "Move the prestige to open access," a memo said.
The trend towards Open Access has catalysed the creation of many new journals and new publishers. BioMedCentral, established in 2000, was a pioneer of open acce
Epic rant about ownership v. leasing, DRM, and core library values.
In the art world, the dealer’s brand often becomes a substitute for aesthetic judgement. Mark Carrigan wonders if it the same could be said of academia; does inclusion in a prestigious journal beco…
Scholastica offers modular software and services for every aspect of publishing academic journals — from peer review to production to hosting and discovery support. Over 1,000 journals across disciplines use Scholastica.
Publishers like Reed Elsevier will prove unsustainable in the face of technological change.
A natural way that one might hope to bring about a genuine change to the current subscription model where libraries pay through the nose for journals is that (i) we all put our papers on the arXiv …
Pretty good summary of teh broken.
The problems facing scholarly journals extend well beyond the "publish or perish" syndrome, and grow from it, write Philip G. Altbach and Brendan Rapple.