“A question arose recently about an early career scientist who has been slow to publish results from their PhD research. Now that this person is on the tenure track (TT), they have to make decisions about how best to spend their limited time: pursuing new research vs. finishing old projects …” (more)
[FemaleScienceProfessor, 3 March]
“My job is to conduct research and publish the results, so I’ve become interested in discussions on the internet about models of publishing. There are three tensions in the field: (1) who pays to publish research? (2) who decides what gets published? and (3) who takes any profits? …” (more)
[BishopBlog, 26 February]
“Twenty years ago North America, Europe and Japan produced almost all of the world’s science. They were the aristocrats of technical knowledge, presiding over a centuries-old regime. They spent the most, published the most and patented the most. And what they produced fed back into their industrial, military and medical complexes to push forward innovation, productivity, power, health and prosperity. All good things, though, come to an end, and the reign of these scientific aristos is starting to look shaky …” (more)
[Economist, 11 November]
“Today McGraw-Hill Education announced that it has bought a lecture-capture company called Tegrity Inc, putting the textbook publisher squarely in the education-software business. Officials say they made the move because of the importance of ‘user-generated content’ as textbooks go digital …” (more)
[Jeff Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 October]
“Academic publishing has already reached a point where too much material of too little substance is being published, and this trend is continuing …” (more)
[Stanley W Trimble, NAS, 23 August]
“There is a perception that publishers fleece academic writers. It is true that they sometimes may ever so slightly take advantage of an academic’s salaried situation and professional need to publish. But over more than two decades, I’ve struggled with enough academic book costings to know how hard it is to make them work …” (more)
[Katharine Reeve, Times Higher Education, 5 August]
“… I may be biased about all this, as I have spent quite a few years researching and writing the history of editors and publishers. However, I do think their role is essential in the world of books. The idea of writers uploading their books to the internet and readers simply finding them by searching is a chaotic one, as well a cold and uninviting one …” (more)
[Niamh Cullen, The Little Review, 25 July]
