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Future of academic publishing

I missed the forum earlier this week at UC Berkeley on the future of scholarly publishing, which is sad (for me). The Center for New Media put it together with the financial & speaking support of Elsevier, and it was good to see the discussion happen. Given the discussion in Congress about whether or not scholarship which is supported with federal funds ought to be made available six months after scholarly publication, what happens to journals is an open question. . maybe someday there will be an answer.

Good to see some press coverage, as how scholars communicate -- both using informal & formal fashions, formal & informal results -- is critical. How do scholars "replicate" or "add onto" the information? How do companies take the information and integrate it? These are questions for the next forum.

posted by Dana Bostrom @ 14:56