BLOG BUZZ

摘要

I was sitting in my kitchen with a tortoise, a slug, and a bowl of cold molasses and contemplating how nobody in this industry seems to feel any sense of urgency. When the world was screaming for broader dissemination of research materials, publishers did nothing. Creative Commons was already an established fact before publishers woke up to it. While Heather Joseph proclaimed that open access is the norm, publishers still behaved as though their $9 billion journals business was something more than a hill of beans. The world wants all-digital all the time, but publishers engage in bizarre technological fetishism over the printing press. The world moves, publishers sleep. It is so embarrassing to be associated with people and an industry that are on the wrong side of history....