Gary Hall<p>Yesterday, our Experimental Publishing reading group took as one of its chosen texts Tara McPherson’s ‘Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future of Scholarly Communication’, which appeared in the Journal of Electronic Publishing in 2010. </p><p><a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0013.208?view=text;rgn=main" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/33364</span><span class="invisible">51.0013.208?view=text;rgn=main</span></a></p><p>It has lines such as: ‘While innovative publishing efforts have emerged from a variety of spaces … it is safe to say that change has not broadly swept through the humanities.’ </p><p>And: ‘The impulse to conserve the status quo emerges largely from humanities scholars themselves. Faced with a variety of threats (both real and perceived) to the humanities, scholars tend to hold on to established modes of working.’</p><p>All raises the question, has much changed in the 15 years since these words were written? And if not, why not? Does anyone have any ideas?</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a><br><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/oa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oa</span></a><br><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/radicalOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radicalOA</span></a><br><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/academicpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicpublishing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/experimentalpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimentalpublishing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journals</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanities</span></a></p>