After nearly 400 years in the slow-moving world of print, the scientific publishing industry is suddenly being thrust into a fast-paced online world of cloud computing, crowd sourcing and ubiquitous sharing. Long-established practices are being challenged by new ones – most notably, the open-access, author-pays publishing model. In this special issue, Nature takes a close look at the forces now at work in scientific publishing, and how they may play out over the coming decades.
Online http://www.nature.com/news/specials/scipublishing/index.html
Zum Inhalt:
EDITORIAL
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Disciplinary action: How scientists share and reuse information is driven by technology but shaped by discipline. Nature ( )
NEWS
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Sham journals scam authors: Con artists are stealing the identities of real journals to cheat scientists out of publishing fees. Nature ( )
NEWS FEATURES
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The true cost of science publishing: Cheap open-access journals raise questions about the value publishers add for their money. Nature ( ) - The library reboot: As scientific publishing moves to embrace open data, libraries and researchers are trying to keep up. Nature ( )
- The dark side of publishing: The explosion in open-access publishing has fuelled the rise of questionable operators. Nature ( )
COMMENT
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Beyond the paper: The journal and article are being superseded by algorithms that filter, rate and disseminate scholarship as it happens, argues Jason Priem. Nature ( ) -
A fool’s errand: Objections to the Creative Commons attribution licence are straw men raised by parties who want open access to be as closed as possible, warns John Wilbanks. Nature ( ) -
How to hasten open access: Three advocates for a universally free scholarly literature give their prescriptions for the movement’s next push, from findability to translations. Nature ( )
BOOKS AND ARTS
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Q&A: Knowledge liberator: Robert Darnton heads the world’s largest collection of academic publications, the Harvard University Library system. He is also a driver behind the new Digital Public Library of America. Ahead of its launch in April, he talks about Google, science journals and the open-access debate. Nature ( )
CAREERS
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Open to possibilities: Opting for open access means considering costs, journal prestige and career implications. Nature ( )
via http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2013/03/28/some-thoughts-on-beyond-the-paper
Auch bei http://wisspub.net/2013/03/28/nature-ausgabe-zur-zukunft-des-wissenschaftlichen-publizierens/