As Michael Clarke sees it, the reports of scientific publishing’s imminent demise are much exaggerated. The long-time STM editor and pundit has written extensively on the hardiness of this particular species of publishing even at a time when so many other related areas are withering.
Reprising a recent contribution to the Scholarly Kitchen blog, Clarke tells Chris Kenneally that “new technologies, along with others not even yet imagined, will undoubtedly transform the landscape of scientific communication in the decade to come. But I think the core publishing system that undergirds so much of the culture of science will remain largely intact.”