MultiGrain
ATG Article(s) of the Week and a Multigrain Discussion: Open Access and Peer Review
A couple of articles have come to our attention that bring to the fore some of the thorny issues surrounding open access and peer review. The first article Critics Say Sting on Open-Access Journals Misses Larger Point was written by Paul Basken, senior reporter for...
ATG Article of the Week and a Multigrain Discussion: “MOOC-Skeptical Provosts”
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to cause lively discussions on campuses across the country. This recent article by Ry Rivard entitled “MOOC-Skeptical Provosts” highlights an effort by provosts of Big 10 universities and the University of Chicago to make...
Multigrain Discussion: If Books Are Dead, Why Is Barnes & Noble Stock So Hot?
Good Question! Why are shares of B&N returning 34.5 percent over the last 12 months if books, their main stock in trade, are on life support? There is no denying that on the surface things are not looking good for the bookstore giant as it continues to suffer...
Mulitgrain Discussion: PubMed, F1000 Research, Peer Review and the question of standards
A number of you may have read Information Today's article F1000Research Launches Following Successful Beta-Testing Phase reporting the successful launch of F1000Research's new Open Science publishing program for life scientists. According to the article this new...
Multigrain Discussion: Is the Traditional Research Library Dead or Morphing into a New Model?
Multigrain Discussion: The 12 Planets and the Unidentified Flying Elephant
The 12 Planets and the Unidentified Flying Elephant By Sue Wiegand Okay, so the elephant isn’t really flying, but the six blind monks in the old story who were trying to identify it based on different parts of its anatomy (“It’s like a tree branch!” cried the one who...
Multigrain Discussion: The Finch Report: "Gold" versus "Green" open access
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Nominations open for 2027 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication – Plus More ATG News And Announcements for 9/11/26
Image via Pixabay Nominations open for 2027 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication Citing the original press release, Knowledgespeak reports that "Digital Science and the Berlin Institute for Scholarly Publishing (BISP) have opened nominations for the...
Nominations open for 2027 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication – Plus More ATG News And Announcements for 9/11/26
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