IN THE world of academic publishing, it is hard to get more traditional than Nature. The British scholarly weekly has been reporting scientific breakthroughs since 1869. It hews to the time-... Read more
Support has been swelling for open-access scientific publishing IF THERE is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that endeavour is surely publicly financed science. Morally... 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
Image via Wikipedia THE SCIENTIFIC PAPER HAS LONG BEEN THE UNIT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. The scientific publishing industry as we know it today represents a structure of the past. It is prof... Read more