The April issue of Learned Publishing is available on the ALPSP website at http://www.alpsp.org/volcont.htm
There are five contributions to the continuing debate on open access. In a guest editorial Iain Stevenson tells how the reactions to his public questioning of its proposed benefits made him feel like a heretic. Peter Gregory's "Personal View" is also a questioning one, and Peter Banks and Christine Lamb present further arguments on opposite sides of the debate. More practically, Ulrich Poeschl gives an account of the concept of the interactive, open-access, journal and describes its reality in terms of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, published by the European Geosciences Union and the Copernicus Society.
Two articles deal with the subject of institutional repositories. Mark Ware describes the survey of them he carried out for PALS and JISC while Chris Awre describes the JISC's FAIR programme which is investigating 14 repository projects in the UK.
Most of the debate on the future of scholarly publishing seems to concentrate on issues in the STM area. Redressing the balance somewhat the wide-ranging study by Blaise Cronin and Kathryn La Barre of tenure requirements in language departments of US universities gives a valuable insight into the problems for scholars who wish to publish in the humanities and J. Eric Davies and Helen Greenwood report on a general survey of specialist opinion (academics, librarians, publishers) on the current state of scholarly publishing in the UK.
There are two further, more specialist, articles. Shengli Ren and Ronald Rousseau describe the position and problems of the surprisingly large number of English-language journals published in China and Helen Cooke writes on the history of the periodical literature in Chemistry.
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