Open has defined my professional career in every way imaginable: for almost ten years now it has been the motivating force in my career, the mode in which I work, and the subject that I research. A...
Read ItLatin America is one of the world’s most progressive regions in terms of open access and adoption of sustainable, cooperative models for disseminating research; models that ensure that researchers ...
Read ItOne of the most fun parts of doing quantitative research is the exploratory analysis that often precedes a more rigorous and focused attempt at answering a research question. At the early stages of...
Read ItThis is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, Science Advances. In addition to the welcome diversification in journal choices for authors looking for open acce...
Read ItIntroduction Publishing and fast food are, on the surface, two very different industries. One sells books, the other food, and the way they do it is very different. Fast food customers must go to ...
Read ItRather than saying that there is a whole new different method for authors to make money, I would say that with the addition of a new landscape, they are exposed to other ways of gaining profit. In...
Read ItWithin the last 20 years, technology has influenced many aspects of both the publishing and the pharmaceutical industries. Yes, these industries may be incredibly different from each other, but the...
Read ItNew technologies proliferating society is nothing new. From the invention of the wheel to the revolution of the internet, new technologies change and shape the existing conditions of society. Often...
Read ItWhen we think of how technology has changed the way of living for billions of people, one industry that adapts to the ever-growing technological world would be the retail industry. The newspaper ma...
Read ItDigital natives, the generations that have been born since the 1980s, have grown up in a world where vacation plans are researched and reserved online and books can be downloaded to a tablet in an ...
Read ItWhile the introduction of new technology has had a very noticeable impact on the digital and print publishing industry, most people don't notice the amount of changes that happen in the automotive ...
Read ItAdam Van der Zwan (301206119) PUB 401 - November 9, 2015 Short Paper #2 Word Count: 1432 The Viability of Subscription-based Ebook Services It has been speculated that there will be dramatic change...
Read ItThe traditional publishing model has been underperforming for small authors for several years now as writers test out the waters of self-publishing. New models have risen in popularity to help auth...
Read ItThere are a few different ways that an author can make money through digital publishing without actually selling their content directly to consumers. For example authors can publish writing on blog...
Read ItIntroduction We tip cab drivers, valets, bartenders, and servers all with little thought or consideration to this act to be anything out of the ordinary (Benkler,2011). But what about “tipping” y...
Read ItPreprints have become a popular topic of conversation among publishers, researchers, funders, librarians, technology builders, and service providers. Their attention is spurring explorations into b...
Read ItThe publication industry has seen a lot of change within recent years as to how writers and authors can earn income or receive compensation for their work. Technological developments and evolution ...
Read ItPublishing content online has never been easier, particularly since the rise of social media microblogging in 2008. The positive aspects of this include inclusiveness to novice web users, who can n...
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