Planned obsolescence: publishing, technology, and the future of the academy

Abstract

As part of an ongoing series of campus conversations about open access and scholarly publishing issues hosted by MPublishing, this talk will explore some of these changes, including shifts in the ways that we approach peer review, transformations in our conceptions of authorship, revisions in the structures of scholarly texts, increased attention to preservation in our libraries, and new partnerships among libraries, presses, and information technology departments in thinking about the place of publishing within the university infrastructure.