Blogs selected for Week December 21 to December 27, 2020
1. Is the publishing industry dead? Author: Alexis Davis When ebooks exploded on the scene, experts predicted that the end of print publishing was nigh. Environmentalists loved ebooks because they saved trees. Consumers liked them because, minus printing and distribution costs, they cost less. Many rushed out and bought e-readers. But did the advent of […]
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1. Transformative agreements, funders and the publishing ecosystem: a lack of focus on equity Author: Robert Harington During COVID-19 pandemic, institutions are suffering financially. Indeed, all participants of the research ecosystem are suffering. In this blog, Robert Harington argues that funders, be they national or private, should consider directly funding their field through funding societies […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week December 07 to December 13, 2020
1. Publishers in power: how capitalism debilitates science Author: Ishita Moghe Publications are used as a means to measure success in academia. In the past, researchers used to target field-specific journals. The introduction of diverse mega journals such as Cell, Nature and Science has created a competition to publish the most generalisable, novel and groundbreaking […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week November 30 to December 06, 2020
1. How institutional repositories support the transition to open research – and reduce admin burden for librarians Author: John Kaye and Liz Bal Publisher and funder mandates and the desire to embrace best practice in open research, reproducibility and research integrity means universities now need to carefully manage, store and share their digital research outputs. […]
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