June 22, 2022 by Gary Price
From a DPLA Announcement: DPLA’s ebook work is a key part of our mission to advance digital access to knowledge for all. Earlier this month, The Palace Project app and platform officially launched and are already in use by more than 125 libraries, with 300 more coming online in the coming weeks. Today, we are pleased to […]
June 22, 2022 by Gary Price
From an AUPresses Announcement: Charles Watkinson, director of the University of Michigan Press, has stepped into the presidency of the Association of University Presses. Watkinson, who also serves as associate university librarian for publishing at Michigan, succeeded 2021-2022 President Lisa Bayer, director of the University of Georgia Press, at the Association’s Annual Meeting in Washington, […]
June 22, 2022 by Gary Price
From a Plan S Post: The Transformative Journal (TJ) model is one of the strategies cOAlition S endorses to help subscription publishers transition to full and immediate Open Access (OA). To be awarded TJ status, a title must publicly commit to transitioning to fully Open Access, and agree to: work to increase the share of […]
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June 21, 2022 by Gary Price
From a Delta Think Post by Dan Pollock This month we present the first part of some results of big data analysis of the scholarly publishing industry. We look at the latest data sources to tease out information about numbers of publishers and consolidation of the industry. [Clip] How many publishers are there? The data […]
June 21, 2022 by Gary Price
From a Committee on Publication Ethics Blog Post: COPE and STM undertook a study with Maverick Publishing Services, using data from publishers, to understand the scale of the problem of paper mills. The study also involved interviewing stakeholders – research investigators, publishers, and Retraction Watch. All stakeholders believe that the issue of paper mills is […]
June 20, 2022 by Gary Price
From the Research on Research Institute (RoRI): Today marks the start of RoRI’s Phase 2. With our international consortium of partners, we’re excited to launch another five years of generating, synthesising and translating ideas and evidence into practical solutions to improve research. Launched in 2019 by the universities of Sheffield and Leiden, Wellcome Trust, and […]
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June 17, 2022 by Gary Price
From Brown University Library: In spring 2021, Brown University Library and Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry co-hosted a summit on multimodal digital monographs – born-digital publications that offer unique capabilities beyond conventional formats, from multimedia enhancements and interactive navigation to community engagement and global reach. The objective was to survey faculty-led experimentation with […]
June 16, 2022 by Gary Price
From a Nature Article: Chinese research outputs enjoyed something of a boom last year. The performance of Jiangsu University is a good example. Its campus sits on the banks of the Yangtze River in the city of Zhenjiang, which is about a three-hour drive inland from Shanghai. The university saw its ‘adjusted Share’ score in […]
June 15, 2022 by Gary Price
From a NASIG Blog Post: NASIG’s Digital Preservation Committee is pleased to announce publication of the NASIG Model Digital Preservation Policy, an important new tool designed to help you measure, grow, and publicize your organization’s commitment to preserving its scholarship. It includes advice on identifying and taking first steps, more advanced options and activities, and […]
June 10, 2022 by Gary Price
From a Library Copyright Alliance Statement (via ARL): The mandatory deposit requirement codified in Section 407 of the US Copyright Act is essential in supporting the Library of Congress’s efforts to build a comprehensive national collection that includes works of underrepresented perspectives and voices. The library preserves and provides public access to these works for […]