Transitions in scholarly communications
Resources focusing on the changes taking place in the world of scholarly communications (particularly journals) and their impact on research
- 15 Twitter users shaping the future of publishing - Mashable (October 2009)
- Academic Evolution - blog dedicated to discussing where the new media is leading higher education, publishing, and teaching
- Against-the-grain.com - blog aiming to link librarians, publishers and vendors
- Chris Webb’s Publishing Blog - A Wiley book publisher’s thoughts on technology and social media effects on publishing
- The death of scholarly journals -The Occassional Pamphlet (8 June 2009)
- Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits - John Houghton, Bruce Rasmussen & Peter Sheehan for JISC (January 2009)
- Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns - Carol Tenopir & Donald W King, D-Lib Magazine (November/December 2008:14;11/12)
- The future of scholarly communications - project run by the Centre for Studies in Higher Education in the US.
- How readers navigate to scholarly content: Comparing the changing user behaviour between 2005 and 2008 and its impact on publisher web site design and function - Simon Inger and Tracey Gardener (Sept 08)
- The new price point? ‘Free’ - National Public Radio podcast (8 July 2009)
- Oxford Scholarly Communications Debate - blog
- Peer review and Elsevier - Elsevier’s peer review page, includes the study undertaken with Sense about Science and links to discussions about the peer review process.
- Publishers and the future of reading - Scholarly Kitchen blog (4 June 2009)
- Publishing Frontier blog - aims to provoke a public discussion of the changes in publishing and how it affects readers, society, economics, and fundamental values such as privacy
- Publishing Talk - blog that covers tips, trends and issues to help those interested in publishing get to grips with new online marketing methods
- Scholarly communications issues - resources from the University of Edinburgh?s Information Services team
- Scholarly Kitchen - blog of the US Society for Scholarly Publishing, aims to keep members others aware of new developments in publishing
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - references to new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers
- Self Publishing 2.0 - Print on Demand and ebook publishing have created a whole new model for publishing. Are POD and digital books the answer to an author’s prayers, or just an evolutionary step between traditional publishing models and free Internet distribution?
- Social media for scientific, technical and medicine communities blog - run by Andrew Spong, consultant and former director of business development at John Wiley and Sons
- Putting down a marker - blog by Mark Ware Consulting, looking at STM and business publishing in a transition