Category Archives for publishing
Future Publishing
Back in the late spring of last year, I participated in a panel discussion on the future of publishing in visual culture studies, as part of the Now! Visual Culture symposium held at NYU. The panel organizers, Marquard Smith and … Continue reading
Open Review: A Study of Contexts and Practices
crossposted from MediaCommons: In April 2011, MediaCommons and NYU Press jointly received a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a year-long study of open review practices and possibilities. The document that follows is a draft of the … Continue reading
Open Access at 10
I’m really happy (if mildly tired) to be writing from Budapest, where (like Cameron) I’m honored to participate in a meeting on the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. It was this gathering, ten years ago, that gave … Continue reading
iBooks, Authoring, Education, and So Forth
A quick note: I had the opportunity to attend the Apple Education event today on behalf of ProfHacker, where I posted my reflections a bit later in the day. And a bit after that, I appeared on Tech News Today, … Continue reading
Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication
The last talk I gave at MLA 2012 was a keynote for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, the text of which is below. I’d love any feedback you might have to offer. — Giving It Away: Sharing and … Continue reading
Adventures in Publishing Contracts
Some months back I received a contract from a Certain University Press for an article that I’ve got forthcoming in what’s going to be a super cool edited volume. I was a little taken aback, on reading the contract, to … Continue reading
Open Peer Review: New Rule
New rule! From this moment forward, in anything claiming to be a “discussion” of open peer review, no one is allowed to refer to the Nature experiment as evidence that open review can’t work, at least not unless you simultaneously … Continue reading
Today’s (Apparently) the Day
According to Amazon, at least: today is the day that Planned Obsolescence has been released! The link above is to the paperback version; here’s a link to the Kindle edition. And it’s the existence of the Kindle edition that makes … Continue reading
Inside Higher Ed
And just to round out what has been a completely insane week, an article reviewing Planned Obsolescence, including an interview with me, is up this morning at Inside Higher Ed. Thanks to Steve Kolowich for a fun dialogue! (Now back … Continue reading
Moves and Updates
The news is starting to make its way out there: I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the Modern Language Association this July as the Director of Scholarly Communication. In this role, I’ll be leading a new office that … Continue reading
