Scholarly Publishing Quotes

While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.