Maybe the recently released Ithaka Report on “University Publishing in a Digital Age” will change scholarly publishing as we know it. Maybe it won’t. Steven D. Krause has his doubts:

“I have to read all of these things more closely to really comment on them in any detail, but let’s just say that I find all of this excitement about the ‘next great idea’ to rescue academic publishing a bit, um, dated. Don’t get me wrong – I think that these projects are great ideas, and they were great ideas 10 or 8 years ago when people in fields like computers and composition and journals like Kairos first started kicking them around, too.”