THE process by which academics check the work of their colleagues before it goes to print—peer review, in the argot—is nearly as old as scientific publishing itself. But like every human end... Read more
A publishing giant goes after the authors of its journals’ papers ONCE upon a time, it was common for scientists to receive letters from researchers working in other institutions, asking for... Read more
Good news for fans of the scientific method: the largest and most influential university system on the planet will be giving out its research for free. After 6-year-long fight with the for-p... Read more
American Historical Association Says Scholars Should Lock Up Their Dissertations For Up To Six Years
For years, scientific research funded with tax dollars has been consigned to a sterile life locked up behind publishers’ paywalls. The argument is that paywall fees fund scholarship, a... Read more
It is no secret that many people in the Big Six publishing houses do not understand or do not care for the lending of ebooks. This has made the shift from physical to digital very difficult... Read more
Necessary Evil? Random House, the world’s largest publisher of the kinds of books you and I read, has made some adjustments to the way it sells e-books to libraries. Notably, they hav... Read more
Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridg... Read more
70 percent to the author and 30 percent to the distributor The Perseus Books Group has created a distribution and marketing service that will allow authors to self-publish their own e-books,... Read more
Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don’t tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost. The value of this magically convenient library b... Read more
Humanity’s musical treasures — Beethoven piano sonatas,Schubert songs, Mozart symphonies and the like — come to life in performance. But they truly survive as black marks on a page, otherwis... Read more