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The Faculty’s Role in Patron-driven Acquisitions

Posted by Joseph Esposito ⋅ Feb 8, 2012 ⋅ 9 Comments

As patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) becomes more widespread, the question arises as to the role of faculty in developing these plans. Continue reading »

Experiments in Free Education: The Audacity of Udacity

Posted by Rick Anderson ⋅ Feb 7, 2012 ⋅ 19 Comments

A new education initiative seeks to shift students away from academia. Is this the shape of things to come? Continue reading »

Ask the Chefs: “How Do You See the Economy Factoring Into Publishing Decisions These Days?”

Posted by Kent Anderson ⋅ Feb 6, 2012 ⋅ 5 Comments

Economic pressures are driving change. The Chefs weigh in on the options, and clearly believe that while times are challenging, the best course is to keep moving ahead. Continue reading »

Big Ideas in the OSTP RFI Comments

Posted by David Wojick ⋅ Feb 6, 2012 ⋅ 4 Comments

Responses to the OSTP’s RFI are in and available. Some big ideas exist. Can the Scholarly Kitchen’s audience help us discover the best? Continue reading »

When Journal Editors Coerce Authors to Self-Cite

Posted by Phil Davis ⋅ Feb 2, 2012 ⋅ 13 Comments

Editors of business journals strategically coerce authors to increase citation rates, a new study in Science reports. Continue reading »

Mysteries of the Elsevier Boycott

Posted by Rick Anderson ⋅ Feb 2, 2012 ⋅ 107 Comments

The Elsevier boycott puts a target on one company, but for no clear reason when you look harder at the facts, and the demands aren’t clear. Just what kind of boycott is this? Continue reading »

The Elsevier Boycott — Does It Make Sense?

Posted by Kent Anderson ⋅ Feb 2, 2012 ⋅ 49 Comments

The boycott of Elsevier may have unintended consequences for smaller not-for-profits, scientists in smaller domains, and accessibility overall. And examples of solutions don’t look like solutions once you understand them a bit better. Continue reading »

The Famous Grouse — Do Prominent Scientists Have Biased Perceptions of Peer Review?

Posted by Tim Vines ⋅ Feb 1, 2012 ⋅ 15 Comments

Conventional wisdom has well-known researchers getting more and more requests for reviews, leading some to suggest the system is broken and about to implode. Yet, when real-world data are analyzed, some surprises emerge. Continue reading »

Rediscovering Discovery — How We Find Things, and Its Implications

Posted by Joseph Esposito ⋅ Jan 30, 2012 ⋅ 9 Comments

A recent ALA panel on discovery prompts some musings about the direction that local search will take and the likelihood that one vendor will control access to almost all library collections. Continue reading »

Why E-books Are Turning the Library and Publishing Worlds Upside Down

Posted by Kent Anderson ⋅ Jan 24, 2012 ⋅ 23 Comments

Old intersections of libraries and book publishers don’t work in the e-book era, and the rapid adoption of e-readers has shown that new bargains are inevitable. Whether libraries and publishers belong together in that future isn’t clear. Continue reading »

The Research Works Act: Is It Time For a Rally To Restore Sanity?

Posted by David Crotty ⋅ Jan 20, 2012 ⋅ 115 Comments

When it comes to discussions about access, the silent majority focused on doing science is presented with real choices, not all of which square with the scorched-earth rhetoric that too often dominates. Continue reading »

My Argument for Public Access to Research Reports

Posted by David Wojick ⋅ Jan 6, 2012 ⋅ 54 Comments

As the deadline for responses to the OSTP RFI approaches, perhaps we should reflect on how the government can make its own research reports available in a more complete, direct, and affordable manner. Continue reading »

Tweets, and Our Obsession with Alt Metrics

Posted by Phil Davis ⋅ Jan 4, 2012 ⋅ 37 Comments

Can tweets predict future citations? A study of article tweets raises validity and ethical concerns. Continue reading »

Quality Reviewing Declines with Experience

Posted by Phil Davis ⋅ Dec 19, 2011 ⋅ 16 Comments

A longitudinal study shows most reviewers submit poorer quality reviews over time. Cognitive decline and competing responsibilities may help to explain why experience may be a liability in peer-review. Continue reading »

Can We Measure the Value of Professional Editors?

Posted by David Crotty ⋅ Dec 13, 2011 ⋅ 21 Comments

eLife asserts that professional editors create more harm than good. But how do we know that? How can we know that? Or is this just an emotional argument based on anecdote and conjecture rather than fact? Continue reading »

Is Peer Review a Coin Toss?

Posted by Tim Vines ⋅ Dec 8, 2011 ⋅ 50 Comments

When authors think peer-review is about their chances of acceptance rather than the quality of their paper, it can lead to the wrong expectations and unproductive behaviors. Continue reading »

What We Should Learn from the Collapse of Borders

Posted by Joseph Esposito ⋅ Nov 29, 2011 ⋅ 13 Comments

The collapse of Borders should be a wake-up call to publishers that assume that the core infrastructure of their legacy businesses will always be there to provide essential services. Continue reading »

Are Open Access and Traditional Publishers in the Same Business?

Posted by Kent Anderson ⋅ Nov 8, 2011 ⋅ 39 Comments

We’ve lived long enough with the proposition that OA publishers compete with traditional publishers. Perhaps they do not. Some major indicators suggest a non-competitive coexistence. Continue reading »

Governance and the Not-for-profit Publisher

Posted by Joseph Esposito ⋅ Oct 24, 2011 ⋅ 16 Comments

The governance of not-for-profit publishing entities plays a large role in those entities’ success or failure. Continue reading »

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