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Feb 5

Research articles take same time to become available as it did to send a letter abroad 300 years ago

Many academics are excited about the future of instant distribution of research. Right now the time lag between finishing a paper, and the relevant worldwide research community seeing it, is between 6 months and 2 years. This is because during that time, the paper is being peer reviewed, and peer review takes an incredibly long time. 2 years is roughly how long it used to take to send a letter abroad 300 years ago.

Richard Price via http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review

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Jan 12

Traditional publishers have declared war against the people

the traditional publishing industry has set out to break digital technologies in order to preserve their traditional business models
Kevin Smith via http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2012/01/05/breaking-technology

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Jun 14

Accelerating higher education's movement to open access

The open digital environment already offers substantial advantages to scholars who are seeking greater reach and impact for their work. As the benefits of traditional publication decline because of some publishers' fearful attack on fair use, the benefits of open access will loom larger. Universities, too, are likely to discover that the status quo is unsustainable and move more quickly to adapt promotion-and-tenure processes to the new reality of direct online publication.
via https://chronicle.com/article/Whats-at-Stake-in-the-Georgia/127718

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