Academic Publishing in the Digital Realm: An Interview with Clifford Lynch, Syllabus Magazine, December 1, 2002. Excerpt: "Ultimately the key players here are going to be the authors and the readers. We tend to forget sometimes, for example, in our frustration with the economics of the scholarly publication system as it stands today, that the system belongs to and serves the authors and readers. Everybody else is just there to help. The creativity and the requirements of the authors and the reception from the readers will drive developments. Having said that, I think that there is a lot that other people or groups can do to accelerate and help the process along. [For example], librarians and information technologists at our universities, working together, can provide more hospitable platforms for new works of digital authorship —by creating institutional repositories and addressing the digital preservation and stewardship issues around making sure this content makes it into the future."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/05/2002 10:10:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
