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Learned Publishing - Issue 3 - 2011
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Learned Publishing - Issue 3 - 2011
From the Editor
Anonymous Digital Signatures - an Oxymoron? - July issue of Learned Publishing now out
No, it's not. But surely it's a key function of a signature of any type, that it can be reliably associated with its owner? Yes, and no. One clue - you'll find it explained in one of three pieces we have, each from an eminent academic editor, describing various types of peer review, and their supposed advantages.
Peer review is very topical in the UK at present, and we are happy to be on that bandwagon. As well as the three pieces above, we have a book review on the topic, and an incidental paper recommending some changes. Of course, the editor has to get in on the act, and offers his opinions on what it's all about - editorials are always free to access - a kind of desperation OA in this case (i.e. saying 'please, somebody read it').What else? Lots. A nice research article summarising whether and how researchers use social media.We even have an article from Google itself (well, from someone who works at Google) about their book digitisation project. It's also Open Access. Coincidentally, three other articles in this issue mention Google's project in passing, and refer to it as a 'threat' - not the way Google describes it, of course.
One of the doyens of scholarly publishing, Bob Campbell, of Wiley, together with Alice Meadows, offer their reflections of the history, present and possible future of journal publishing - that must be worth reading. And then there's a pioneer treating us to an insider's view of 10 years' history of e-books. Another luminary, but from the library world, MacKenzie Smith, talks about another topical issue - data and its management.
Lastly, and definitely not least, we have one of the most eloquently wriiten articles that I have seen in Learned Publishing - and one that unusually if not uniquely, has part of its title in French - 'Ceci n'est-ce pas un hamburger' - now what can that be about? It's open access, so anyone can find out. But three clues: Magritte; if you can bear to think of it, how would you go about re-assembling a cow from a hamburger? are you interested in the flexibility of pdfs?
Alan Singleton
Editor, Learned Publishing
editor@alpsp.org
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