Jeri E. Wieringa
Digital Publishing Production Lead with Mason Publishing Group,
George Mason University Libraries
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Framing inspired by Isabel Galina Russell, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
The action of making something publicly known...
- Oxford English Dictionary
Print-based publishing operates within an economics of scarcity, with its systems determined largely by the fact that a limited number of pages, journals, and books can be produced ... Electronic publishing faces no such material scarcity...
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence,
Ch. 1, pp. 37-38 (print)
Suite of studies, funded by Mellon, on the costs of monograph publishing and alternative models.
Direct Author Subventions at University of Michigan and Indiana University
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Framing inspired by Isabel Galina Russell, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
However, in a self-multiplying scholarly commons ... what remains scarce are time and attention.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence,
Ch. 1, pp. 37-38 (print)
Rise of open networks for indexing and discoverability of distributed content:
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Framing inspired by Isabel Galina Russell, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Who should provide evaluation / gatekeeping and when?
How can we assess the importance (influence) of a piece of scholarship?
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Framing inspired by Isabel Galina Russell, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México