As expected, authors from the USA have played a significant role in advancing the crowdsourcing literature.
What to Expect When You're Expecting author Heidi Murkoff teamed up with WhatToExpect.com, International Medical Corps, 1,000 Days, and the United Nations Foundation to establish this awareness day, she explains in a blog post about the initiative.
Expecting authors to work (because it is work) for nothing is iniquitous, it always has been, and I've had enough of it".
"For some reason, studies on laughter or humor prompt readers to expect authors to adopt a humorous tone or style," he wrote.
Tim Gowers, who is leading a boycott against the publisher Elsevier and is starting the new Forum of Mathematics journal says it "will not under any circumstances expect authors to meet APCs out of their own pockets, and I would refuse to be an editor if it did".
Focusing on written content, I'd expect authors who once coveted publisher advances to experiment with a host of creation options and tests within the market, and then harness Amazon's distribution to get their work out to the masses.
It is reasonable to expect authors to defend their science; it is another matter for editors to publish letters that put the authors in the position to have to defend their character, or that amount to enabling bullying (Collier 2014).
But in the free-text part of the article, embedded in the CIF as distinct data fields, we do not expect authors to mark up their commentary in any greater detail than in a conventional article.
2) Publishing houses expect authors to market their books.
Most people expect authors to embody their works just as they expect actors to somehow embody their characters off-screen.
