Over the past few months I have been part of an ad hoc working group with colleagues from Newcastle and Durham Universities that has been exploring the future of academic publishing. Two problematics framed our analysis: how are changes initiated by the digital economy affecting academic journals and how might the editorial team of a top flight journal in the social sciences respond to these challenges? As previously posted–here and here–our initial conclusions have been that current models of academic journal publishing that rely on limiting access to research through pay-walls are no longer sustainable.
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The Facebook half-billion: interconnection, infrastructure, anthropocentrism
Friday, July 30th, 2010I find last week’s news that facebook has reached the milestone of 500 million subscribers interesting for several reasons. (more…)
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