Here’s confirmation of something we already knew – there is very little appetite for a change in the use of peer review to manage the quality of scholarly communications. But the system does need improving.
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This study from colleagues at CIBER claims that, although young people demonstrate an apparent ease and familiarity with computers, they ‘view’ rather than ‘read’ and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to assess the information that they find on the web. Librarians could help.
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With Google doing a good job already looking after academics with Scholar, its book scanning project and launch of online storage, it is hard to see how this challenger from the University of Manchester is going to become a preference.
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Here is Information Today’s take on the publishing news of 2007 and things to watch out for in 2008.
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