Top 5 Emerging Trends to watch out for… in Academic Publishing in 2014 « www.rockyourpaper.org

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-01-01

Summary:

"2013 started on a bad news with the death of  Aaron Swartz’s, however was a good year for academic publishing. Many important announcements were made, a lot of things were tried for good or for bad. Take down notice to Academia from Elsevier was one of those attempts where the biggest commercial publisher tried to safeguard it’s commercial interest. It was seen as a bad move, as Elseiver was seen as to curb the free flow of knowledge. However, when you look from another point of view, Academia.edu is also a 'for profit' company and by allowing academics to upload their research papers and circulate them publicly (copyright of that was of course with Elsevier) it deliberately (or may be not so deliberately) indulged in a practice which  served it’s profits in a way.  However, towards the fag end of 2013 Elsevier also announced flipping of 7 of it’s subscription journals to Open Access from 2014. There are occasions which marked significant changes in near future to come. I have compiled few of them, which, in larger prospective gives an inside view of emerging trends in academic publishing world ..."

Link:

http://rockurpaper.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/top-5-emerging-trends-to-watch-out-for-in-academic-publishing-in-2014/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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Date tagged:

01/01/2014, 19:45

Date published:

01/01/2014, 14:45