Scholarly Publishing Online

Alex Halavais links to a fascinating conference on Scholarly Publishing on the Web, with plenty of thinky papers and presentations that I wish I could have known about and gone to. Alex’s notes mention a compelling presentation by Stephen Harnad, in which he mentions research that shows that “Articles available online are cited 336% more often” (with the same embedded link to Steve Lawrence’s paper). This is why we’re building the Disseminary; this is what we’re about, and it’s exciting to see that other people are on the same wavelength. From Alex’s notes on the discussion: “In the case of Napster, the authors were wanting to be paid and the technology inhibited this, while in the case of academics, the author wants to give away report, but is blocked by copyright and publishing contracts. It is the inverse of Napster.” Of course, getting paid even the token amounts we can offer here will accelerate the process. . . .

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