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Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Can we change the views of humanities scholars so that they may accept, as some legal scholars already do, the great blog post as being as influential as the great law review article? Can we get humanities faculty, as many tenured economists already do, to publish more in open access journals? Can we accomplish the humanities equivalent of FiveThirtyEight.com, which provides as good, if not better, in-depth political analysis than most newspapers, earning the grudging respect of journalists and political theorists? Can we get our colleagues to recognize outstanding academic work wherever and however it is published?..." Also see comment #8: "Roy [Rosenzweig] and I got contracts from both Penn and from another (very prominent) publisher. Penn offered to do it open access as well as in print after we asked nicely and told them it matched the thesis of the book. The other press was adamant that a web version of the book would destroy sales. The opposite has clearly been the case, as Penn will tell you...."

Link:

http://www.dancohen.org/2010/03/05/the-social-contract-of-scholarly-publishing/

Updated:

06/16/2010, 09:47

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.books oa.humanities oa.books.sales oa.sales oa.ssh oa.economics_of

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 18:35

Date published:

05/25/2010, 11:21