Scholarly Electronic Publishing Round-Up

Picking up the threads from good discussions over at KF’s (here and here), the Chronicle has a ton of relevant material in the current issue: first, John Unsworth’s essay on “Liberation Technology”, which posits the oughts as the decade of O—open source, that is (open source version available to non-subscribers here); second, “The Promise and Peril of Open Access” on alternatives to the soaring price of scholarly journals; third, and apropos of Palimpsest, as well as Liz’s MT Courseware, this article on “Open Source Course Management Tools”; fourth, an article on “Scholarship in a Digital Era” which discusses problems of digital preservation, including electronic literature—the explicit purview of ELO’s PAD initiative. Plus lots more really worthwhile stuff. Why do these things always seem to arrive right at the start of a new semester?