Thursday, April 5, 2012
E-books in the Academy — A Story of Limitations and Affordances
The inexorable march of e-book adoption may be heading into a wall in the most unexpected market — the academy. It’s strange that this should be the case, inasmuch as universities are arguably the most wired segment of American society today, but several conversations I have had of late with academic librarians make me wonder if the “affordances” of e-books, at least in their current form, make them inferior in some respects to print.
An Open Letter to Academic Publishers About Open Access
"If you do offer open-access options, let the world know about them. Talk
to your critics as well as your supporters. Understand that if you ask
librarians to sign nondisclosure agreements about subscription deals,
there's good will as well as profit at stake."
"Nervous academic publishers??
More than 8,800 scholars have signed on to a boycott of the science-publishing giant Reed Elsevier, vowing not to review for or publish in its journals. They say the publisher charges "exorbitantly high prices" for its journals; that it exploits libraries by making them buy pricey bundled subscriptions to those journals; that it supports proposed legislation that would "restrict the free flow of information."
"Nervous academic publishers??
More than 8,800 scholars have signed on to a boycott of the science-publishing giant Reed Elsevier, vowing not to review for or publish in its journals. They say the publisher charges "exorbitantly high prices" for its journals; that it exploits libraries by making them buy pricey bundled subscriptions to those journals; that it supports proposed legislation that would "restrict the free flow of information."
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