Academic publishing: We must e-publish or perish

August 21, 2008 - 9:01am — Blake

SPEAKING at Sydney University last year Richard Fisher, academic publisher at Cambridge University Press, compared the academic monograph to the Hapsburg monarchy in that it seems to have been in decline for ever.

Chris Lloyd points out

It is about time we got commercial publishers and paper millers out of the process of distributing knowledge. But it is not going to be easy to come up with a system that combines academic integrity with free and wide dissemination.