JSTOR Atlantic editorial

Thanks to Nancy Sims at Minnesota for writing a nice augmentation/correction of the JSTOR critique in the Atlantic. Thanks Nancy!

Thought: We need to educate people about how the structure of the political economy of scholarly publishing.   How does journal publishing work? Where does the money go? Who owns the copyrights? Who are all these crazy intermediary platform companies?

Lots of smart, well-meaning, energetic people making less-than-optimal arguments because they don’t have a clear picture of the structure of the industry.

The truly interested/e-publishing wonks might want to read:

Roger C. Schonfeld JSTOR:A History Princeton University Press, 2003.

I will work on this problem…but things are too crazy until May….

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