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Publications are a crucially important factor in our research. In recent months the traditional model of scholarly publishing has started to change with low-cost online publishing, open access and – most recently – data-sharing or open data. This keynote examines these changes and looks at the approaches that are being taken to optimise the new arrangements and some of the as yet unforeseen, and possibly undesirable, consequences.
"May you live in an interesting age" (Said to be ancient Chinese curse). The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) or that of Wiley who publish the British Journal of Educational Technology on behalf of BERA.
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Rushby, N. (2013). Publishing Research in Web-Based Learning: An Interesting Age. In: Wang, JF., Lau, R. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2013. ICWL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41175-5_1
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