The WWW and the New Economics of Publication

Worldwide publication is now free, disintermediated, and instant. As a consequence the economics of publication is undergoing rapid change, and many of the ways that society uses and compensates the publication process will be transformed over the next few years. The purpose of this page it to collect thoughtful resources that observe, measure, and analyze this process

• Berkeley Electronic Press
• Bepress Comments on the Crisis in Academic Publishing
• International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics
• Scientometrics
• A bibliometric view of Scientometrics (Olle Persson)
• Vemal Varun's Web Page
• Sociology of Science (a web page of Cosma Rohilla Shalizi )
• Cornell Cancells Elsevier
  

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.
     - Vannevar Bush (1945)

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