Montana State librarian Leila Sterman, on switching to Shareyourpaper.org for repository processing: While we haven’t perfected all of our internal processes yet, the introduction of Shareyourpaper into our workflow has decreased the time spent sending out article...
Grigori Guitchounts, writing last week for Undark on the usurious Nature APC: Only the wealthiest universities in the wealthiest countries will be able to foot these bills. As a result, the range of researchers able to publish open-access papers in Springer Nature’s...
From Joseph Esposito’s Scholarly Kitchen post on the trade book industry, back in October: It is a remarkable fact that publishers have succeeded over the past two decades in reaping 100% of the efficiencies from digital media and workflows and shared none of...
eLife’s Paul Shannon, in an interview with Scholastica on its new Sciety service: So we started to develop features where you could see content in a Twitter-like feed and then follow different communities that you could come back to regularly. We’re effectively...
With a hat tip to the indispensable Richard Poynder, here is a quick follow up to yesterday’s post on Knowledge Unlatched’s latest move to disguise its for-profit status. I focused on KU’s Open Research Community (ORC), launched last year as an...
Pablo Markin, in a recent post touting the Open Research Community‘s 2020 reach: In the course of 2020, 153 posts and 151 documents have been added to the Open Research Community (ORC), which reflects its intention to serve as a resource for expert knowledge and...