Repository-rat publishing opportunities
So for the second time in as many months, I got an email asking if I’m interested in writing a book about institutional repositories.
Honestly? Not right now, no. If a silly slideshow goes hopelessly out of date in less than six months, imagine how bad a book is going to be by the time it actually appears!
Open access is a bad enough thing to write about, things are happening so fast. But open-access advocates live in a fairly rarefied sphere: they can often talk in glittering generalities that hold true for more than a few months at a time. IRs are where rubber meets road, just that the rubber keeps rubbing off.
But if you’re a repository-rat, you can write, and you’d like to write a book about IRs, drop me a line and I’ll connect you up, because why not?