eLife is the newest example of the changes sweeping journal publishing. (It’s so new, it doesn’t have its own website yet.) We’ve already seen: the movement away from print to […]
Background on the Elsevier Boycott
If you’ve heard about the boycott of Elsevier, you may have a few questions about why this is happening. Below is an overview, followed by a boat-load of links. Don’t […]
New Things, More Ways – Change Is Always Hard
It’s been an astonishing year in digital publishing! What’s happening behind the scenes of those appealing e-books on your new e-reader? Look at events occurring right this minute in the […]
Look Who’s Blogging!
Our friends at the Johns Hopkins University Press! They’ve started the new year with a bang, I mean, blog. We’re adding it to our blogroll so we can keep up […]
Why I Tweet
I tweet. Quite a lot, actually. Does that make me a twit? If you think so, tell it to the astronauts on the International Space Station (@ISS_Research), whose feed is […]
New Things, More Ways — Now a Series!
Hello, Futurists of Reading! Throughout 2011, I’ve followed the amazing evolution of the intersecting worlds of reading and of e-books. In New Things to Read and More Ways to Read […]
Revisiting The New Scientific Journal Article
Back in July of 2009, I wrote a blog post about The Article of the Future (ta-da!) that Cell Press and Elsevier were working on. I thought it was time […]
Where do all these books COME from?
One of the questions we’ve received from our various feedback options (Ask-a-Librarian, Twitter, Facebook, ye olde Suggestion Box on M Level) is – how do books get chosen for the […]
Open Access Quiz Winners!
Last week we ran a quiz about Open Access Week. We had blog posts about authors’ rights, philosophy resources, and Open Data. Here are the winners of our prizes! Chris […]
Open Access Week: Opening Doors with Open Data
The idea of sharing research data – both scientific and social science – has been around for quite some time (for replication studies and new science), but the Open Data […]