The Scholastica team read this amazing post by Timothy Gowers where he uncovers how much universities are actually paying for Elsevier journals. We worried that casual readers might miss some of the great punchlines within the 10,000+ word post, so we thought we could help spread the great work Timothy Gowers is doing by creating an infographic. The graphic we created is below - feel free to share!
A Library Sciences Masters student, recently sent us a Slideshare presentation titled, 'What's Wrong With Scholarly Publishing Today?'by Bjorn Brembs . It provided a ton of illuminating data on problems that scientists see with academic publishing.
Ian Beilin Editor of In the Library with the Lead Pipe discusses the impetus behind the OA journal and steps universities and individual scholars can take to further open access.
Torsten Reimer Scholarly Communications Officer at Imperial College London discusses his work to ensure the College's digital infrastructure facilitates OA and high standards of research communication.
Richard Poynder discusses his career writing about the Open Access Movement and his thoughts on the future of open access scholarly journal publishing.
What is academic-led publishing? Why does it matter? And what are examples of academic-led publishing initiatives? These were some of the core questions addressed during the first Academic-Led Publishing Day. In this post, we share some highlights from the day.
The creators of Hybrid Pedagogy have sought to foster a new approach to scholarly communication, peer review, and open access publishing.
