MORE 'SCHOLARLY-PUBLISHING' POSTS
9 Library, Publishing, and Research Organizations Send Letter to Congress in Support of FRPAA
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Jobs, Libraries, Open Access, PLOS, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Direct to Full Text Letter (3 pages; PDF) The letter is signed by: AALL ALA ACRL ARL Creative Commons Greater Western Library Alliance Public Knowledge Public Library of Science SPARC From the Letter: Timely, barrier-free access to the results of federally funded research is an essential component of our collective investment in science. We fully […]
New via arXiv. Title How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations Authors Xin Shuai, Indiana University Alberto Pepe, Harvard University Johan Bollen, Indiana University Source arXiv Abstract We analyze the online response of the scientific community to the preprint publication of scholarly articles. We employ a cohort […]
Council of Library Resources and NITLE to Launch A Digital Academic Publishing Program Named Anvil Academic
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From a Joint News Release: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) announce the formation of Anvil Academic, a digital publisher for the humanities. Anvil will focus on publishing new forms of scholarship that cannot be adequately conveyed in the traditional monograph. “Increasingly, research […]
eJournals: The CLOCKSS Archive Triggers Two Journals from the American Medical Association
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|From the Announcement: The AMA’s “Archives of Family Medicine” and “JAMA Français” are now available from the CLOCKSS Archive. The American Medical Association announced on January 23rd that the journals “Archives of Family Medicine” and “JAMA Français” are no longer available from their journal site and will be accessible through the CLOCKSS Archive. “Archives of […]
From an Emerald Publishing Group Announcement: Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced eight new journals scheduled for launch in 2012. These additional journals will publish high-quality research from emerging and fast-growing fields of study, including such areas as organizational ethnographies, entrepreneurship and sustainability. New titles strengthening Emerald’s Social Sciences portfolio include: Asian Education and Development […]
New Article: "Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition" by Peter Brantley
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|A new article by Peter Brantley from the Publisher’s Weekly web site. From the Article: There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace. College and university libraries are experiencing budget cuts; there are too many presses publishing too many titles; there’s growing pressure to figure out open access (OA) solutions, particularly in the […]
From SAGE: SAGE’s entire online journal collection is now available in a mobile-optimized format with the help of HighWire Press’ Mobile Web Interface. Visitors to one of the more than 640 SAGE journal sites using their iPhones, Androids or other smartphones are automatically redirected to the mobile version. Subscribers can now view content in a […]
From the F1000 Web Site: Faculty of 1000 (F1000) today announces F1000 Research, a new fully Open Access publishing program across biology and medicine that will launch later this year. It is intended to address the major issues afflicting scientific publishing today: timely dissemination of research, peer review, and sharing of data. Diverging from traditional […]
Two more articles discussing student use of ebooks and etextbooks. 1. University of Kansas: The Rise of the E-book (via University Daily Kansan) Many students can’t give up loyalty to the printed book. Lottie Likens, the manager of University Book Shop, says customers have told her that buying e-books makes them feel like they are […]
Direct to Document (2 pages; PDF) Sections Include: What is At Stake Under the Public Access Policy Support from the Publishers No Harm to Publishers in Evident PubMed Central (PMC) Key Facts About PMC See Also: Training/Communications from NI Public Access Policy Web Site See Also: Alliance For Taxpayer Access