Academic publishing and scholarly communication more generally are undergoing a period of rapid change. Positive change comprises a wealth of Web based services for pre-print collections, data warehouses, collaboration systems and more. Negative change comprises skyrocketing costs for academic journals that have forced a nationwide cutback in the average number of periodicals held by research university libraries. All this dramatically impacts the productivity and promotion of individual scholars as well as university budgets.
Scholcom conference
The web site for next month’s one-day scholarly communication conference is up. Looks like it will be fun. Here’s the blurb:
PUBLISHING THE FUTURE:
Scholarly Communication in an Information Age
November 11, 2003
Academic publishing and scholarly communication more generally are undergoing a period of rapid change. Positive change comprises a wealth of Web based services for pre-print collections, data warehouses, collaboration systems and more. Negative change comprises skyrocketing costs for academic journals that have forced a nationwide cutback in the average number of periodicals held by research university libraries. All this dramatically impacts the productivity and promotion of individual scholars as well as university budgets.
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