Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - Scholarly publishing: The week my life changed; and yours will too « petermr's blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-11-08

Summary:

"In the last 2 weeks everything has come together and convinced me that the old era of scholarly publishing is on the verge of collapse. The new ideas of web-based community, of freedom and democracy, and of semantics are irresistible. They’ve been bottled up by gateways, lawyers and an older generation who conforms and hangs onto the past rather than challenges. That is finished. And I am playing a role in that – history will tell whether it mattered. There is so much going on that I’ll simply list the last two weeks. Each item requires one or more blog posts. I haven’t had the time (and WordPress/server let me down). In order of date…"

Link:

https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2013/11/07/scholarly-publishing-the-week-my-life-changed-and-yours-will-too/

From feeds:

[IOI] Open Infrastructure Tracking Project » Items tagged with oa.europe_pmc in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.mining oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.events oa.funders oa.funds oa.oa_button oa.europe_pmc oa.spoton oa.software_carpentry oa.shuttleworth_foundation oa.panton oa.oa_button oa.nhshack oa.new oa.mozfest oa.mining oa.funds oa.funders oa.events oa.europe_pmc oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.medicine oa.health

Date tagged:

11/08/2013, 08:03

Date published:

11/08/2013, 03:03