http://cshbenchmarks.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/link-roundup-01-29-2009/ The Latest from CSHL Press Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:07:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cshbenchmarks.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/link-roundup-01-29-2009/#comment-225 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:56:00 +0000 http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/?p=326#comment-225 Maxine, it is frustrating that so much of what goes on behind the scenes is so quickly dismissed by so many. Like your publications over at Nature, CSHL Press has always strived (striven?) for the highest quality possible, and that comes at a price. Like the comment on journalism in the above posting, aspects of publishing are indeed skills, and doing them well takes both experience and talented individuals. As the electronic world moves into maturity, hopefully we’ll see attitudes change from the expectation that everything should be free.

]]> http://cshbenchmarks.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/link-roundup-01-29-2009/#comment-224 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:19:00 +0000 http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/?p=326#comment-224 Just to comment on one of your interesting “bookmarks”, I agree with your comments about the costs of e/web publication. Time and time again over the years I (a journal editor) come across this assumption that somehow, “e is free” – this varies from the assumption that if a journal did not have a print version, it would be free to produce, to authors thinking that “correcting their published paper on the journal’s website” is instant and easy to do. And many points inbetween. (Not least, that of large datasets and much other supplementary information that does not fit, or is not compatible with, print format).

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