The Supercontinent of Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-05-04

Summary:

"Three years ago, I felt called to the unhappy task of pointing out the many points of failure in what Lettie Conrad calls the “researcher experience.” I observed that “Instead of the rich and seamless digital library for scholarship that they need, researchers today encounter archipelagos of content bridged by infrastructure that is insufficient and often outdated.” Perhaps researchers need a supercontinent.

Since then, Sci-Hub has come on the scene, and publishers are in some combination of being outraged and/or scared. It may be that these businesses are too late. The formula for stabilizing a sector facing rampant piracy is the combination of legal action and seamless central access to content that allowed the music industry to find a future after Napster. Thus far, for scholarly publishers, legal action is not working, with cross-border enforcement challenging in this geopolitical moment. But what about the seamless centralized access to content? How is this sector going to accept the tectonic shift necessary to establish the supercontinent?..."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/05/03/supercontinent-scholarly-publishing/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.debates oa.search oa.access oa.discoverability oa.platforms oa.interoperability oa.recommendations oa.lis oa.infrastructure oa.sci-hub oa.dimensions oa.kopernio oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

05/04/2018, 16:46

Date published:

05/04/2018, 07:31