Is scholarly publishing going from crisis to crisis?

Is scholarly publishing going from crisis to crisis?

Multilateralism is in Crisis [1]

There is a crisis in multilateralism.  No major new binding rules relating to international commerce have come into force in more than 20 years.  Demands by some nations for rules in new areas are not being met. The negotiations in the WTO of trade rules and the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to devise rules restricting the annual emissions of greenhouse ga...

From crisis to opportunity: a perspective on the heparin crisis.

Thromb Haemost 2009; 102: 854–858 Heparin is a mixture of polysaccharide chains isolated from a biological source, porcine intestinal mucosa, and is used clinically primarily as a prophylactic agent to prevent thrombosis as well as an initial treatment of established venous thrombosis (1). Heparin has enjoyed widespread use as a medicinal agent; it and insulin are, on a unit basis, the most wid...

Is biogeography emerging from its identity crisis?

Biogeography has had an unusually protracted identity crisis (e.g. Brown & Lomolino, 2000; Donoghue & Moore, 2003), although the discipline took on a relatively ‘modern’ look well over a century ago – the thoroughly ‘modern’ observations of Alfred Russel Wallace have been discussed elsewhere (Funk, 2004), and Joseph Dalton Hooker’s views about floristic histories across lands of the southern he...

Of wolves and and boys: the scholarly communication crisis

The case for the self-publishing by academic institutions of scholarly research as a response to the ‘serials crisis’ is made against the background of the experience of Bepress. It is suggested that such arrangements provide a valuable and cost-effective answer to the problem. Learned Publishing (2003)16, 285–289 Greg Tananbaum Of wolves and boys: the scholarly communication crisis 285 L EA RN...