The fourth APE – Academic Publishing in Europe – Conference in the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, was about ‘the impact of publishing’. The APE 2009 spectrum varied from usage and users, peer reviewing and quality assurance, branding, funding and investing, business models, new types of information, enabling technologies, search engines, to research excellence, dissemination, access an...

There are several fundamental problems with statistical software development in the academic community. In addition, the development and dissemination of academic software will become increasingly difficult due to a variety of reasons. To solve these problems, a new framework for statistical software development, maintenance, and publishing is proposed: it is based on the paradigm that academic...

AE~STRACT THISARTICLE PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF A survey of directors of university libraries and other academic administrators to determine attitudes toward a networked electronic approach to the publishing of research articles. A major conclusion is that academic administrators do not now consider the academic community well equipped to undertake an enterprise of this kind and would not give it...

Introduction Academic libraries are invested in scholarly communication. For example, academic libraries host many open access scholarly journals, as well as events like Open Access Week. In addition, organizations like the Library Publishing Coalition demonstrate the dedication of academic libraries to advancing their role in academic publishing. Several American Library Association divisions ...

TinyTOCS has a unique opportunity to experiment with changes to the academic publishing model due to its high profile and high-quality student PC. However, TinyTOCS reiterates many of the shortcomings of the traditional publishing model [2], including a multi-month long review cycle, a closed and opaque peer-review process, and arbitrary content limitations. Instead, we argue that TinyTOCS shou...