Why Should We Care About Publishing? (original) (raw)

Report from the "What is Publishing?" (2) Workgroup

Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 2016

OSI2016 Workgroup QuestionWhat do we mean by publishing in today’s world? What should be the goals of scholarly publishing? What are the ideals to which scholarly publishing should aspire? What roles might scholarly publishers have in the future? What scenarios exist where publishers continue to play a vital role but information moves more freely? What impact might these reforms have on the health of publishers? Scholarly societies? Science research? Why?