After nearly 400 years in the slow-moving world of print, the scientific publishing industry is suddenly being thrust into a fast-paced online world of cloud computing, crowd sourcing and ubiquitous sharing. Long-established practices are being challenged by new ones – most notably, the open-access, author-pays publishing model. In this special issue, Nature takes a close look at the forces now at work in scientific publishing, and how they may play out over the coming decades.
How scientists share and reuse information is driven by technology but shaped by discipline.
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NEWS
Sham journals scam authors
Con artists are stealing the identities of real journals to cheat scientists out of publishing fees.
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NEWS FEATURES
The true cost of science publishing
Cheap open-access journals raise questions about the value publishers add for their money.
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The library reboot
As scientific publishing moves to embrace open data, libraries and researchers are trying to keep up.
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The dark side of publishing
The explosion in open-access publishing has fuelled the rise of questionable operators.
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COMMENT
Beyond the paper
The journal and article are being superseded by algorithms that filter, rate and disseminate scholarship as it happens, argues Jason Priem.
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A fool's errand
Objections to the Creative Commons attribution licence are straw men raised by parties who want open access to be as closed as possible, warns John Wilbanks.
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How to hasten open access
Three advocates for a universally free scholarly literature give their prescriptions for the movement’s next push, from findability to translations.
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BOOKS AND ARTS
Q&A: Knowledge liberator
Robert Darnton heads the world's largest collection of academic publications, the Harvard University Library system. He is also a driver behind the new Digital Public Library of America. Ahead of its launch in April, he talks about Google, science journals and the open-access debate.
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CAREERS
Open to possibilities
Opting for open access means considering costs, journal prestige and career implications.
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