Scholarly publishing: History and how should it be?

 The (mostly true) origins of the scientific journal, By Bonnie Swoger on July 27, 2012, Scientific American

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/the-mostly-true-origins-of-the-scientific-journal/

Why do we need academic journals in the first place? Mathew Ingram Feb 22, 2012

https://gigaom.com/2012/02/22/why-do-we-need-academic-journals-in-the-first-place/

Cracking Open the Scientific Process By Thomas Lin Jan. 16, 2012, The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/open-science-challenges-journal-tradition-with-web-collaboration.html

Publishing: Open to possibilities Stephen Pincock 27 March 2013 

https://www.nature.com/articles/nj7442-539a

A proposal for the future of scientific publishing in the life sciences, Plos Biology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000116

The future of publishing: A new page, Nature, 27 March 2013

https://www.nature.com/articles/495425a

THE FUTURE OF PUBLISHING, Nature, 28 March 2013

https://www.nature.com/collections/whzhpfljwc

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