RE: Olivia Judson

["Armbruster, Chris" <Chris.Armbruster@EUI.eu>]

Staying with the metaphor of the car: It would seem that 
scientists have been busy designing new engines (e.g. interactive 
peer review) if not new cars (e.g. new types of publishing and 
overlay services related to metrics, mining etc.). Maybe the 
defining feature of our current era is that researchers are doing 
these new designs for themselves and that established publishers 
are very much *disconnected*...meaning that researchers are doing 
this by themselves...?

I say *maybe* because I would like to read the observations of 
others on this issue and also on the subsequent conjecture that 
this *disconnect* pretty much explains why innovation in 
scholarly publishing/communication is lagging/slow.

Chris Armbruster