The Political Economics of Open Access Publishing – A series

flavoursofopenscience's bookmarks 2015-09-28

Summary:

One of the odd things about scholarly publishing is how little any particular group of stakeholders seems to understand the perspective of others. It is easy to start with researchers ourselves, who are for the most part embarrassingly ignorant of what publishing actually involves. But those who have spent a career in publishing are equally ignorant (and usually dismissive to boot) of researchers’ perspectives. Each in turn fail to understand what libraries are or how librarians think. Indeed the naive view that libraries and librarians are homogenous is a big ...

Link:

http://cameronneylon.net/blog/the-political-economics-of-open-access-publishing-a-series/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » flavoursofopenscience's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.librarians oa.funders oa.publishers oa.universities oa.colleges oa.recommendations oa.economics_of oa.business_models oa.hei

Authors:

Cameron Neylon

Copyright info:

CC0

Date tagged:

09/28/2015, 14:44

Date published:

09/28/2015, 14:24