Intractable? – Adam Hyde

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-11

Summary:

"Scholarly publishing loves intractable problems. Building publishing platforms is often argued to be such a thing.

I think there’s a reasonable amount of skepticism here toward any claims to have solved what has been, for decades, an intractable set of problems. We’ve watched Wiley pour (estimated) tens of millions of dollars into building a platform, only to give up and purchase Atypon. We’ve watched Elsevier pour similar (estimated) amounts of money into building Evise, only to give up and purchase Aries. We’ve watched PLOS pour similar (estimated) amounts of money into building Aperta, only to give up and sign on with Aries.

David is talking to a belief in the scholarly publishing sector that publishing workflow platforms are an intractable problem. And yet, so the belief goes, Aries and others, have apparently ‘solved’ this problem.

Well, intractable problems aren’t ones that have been previously solved. So whats going on with this argument?...."

Link:

https://www.adamhyde.net/intractable/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.coko oa.tools oa.platforms oa.infrastructure oa.publishing oa.software

Date tagged:

12/11/2018, 10:55

Date published:

12/11/2018, 05:55