Martin Eve: Building the Open Library of the Humanities - 5 views
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Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14"At the same time, a fair amount of resistance to OA practices still exists. Publishers object to OA on economic principles, as it undermines the revenue generated by journals. Some researchers feel that it devalues their work as well, lowering it to the level of "a database to be consulted," in Eve's words. He believes the academic community is over-reliant on scholarly publishing's status quo; as he told the crowd at Columbia, "the system reinforces itself through economies of prestige." Even as interest in altmetrics grows, the quality of research continues to be gauged by the number of citations an article gathers and the status of the journal it appears in."
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rafopen on 12 Nov 14This is a good overview of a project that seeks to demystify and break down resistance to open educational resources.