Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
World Intellectual Property Day – Celebrate
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is celebrating World Intellectual Property Day – today, April 26, 2018. The World Intellectual Property Organization and partner industries throughout the world celebrates the theme: Powering Change: Women in Innovation and Creativity. This year’s campaign celebrates the brilliance, ingenuity, curiosity and courage of the women who are driving change…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity in Philly
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is offering an educational opportunity at their regional event on May 2, 2018. The title of the workshop is “The Publishing Ecosystem: An Open Conversation with Researchers and Editors.” It will be held at the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia. The feature will be a panel of STEM,…
Read MoreDigital or Retail: Selecting Books Have Changed
Bookstores’ footprints, business concepts and strategies have morphed over the past few decades in very drastic ways. Founder Jeff Bezos first launched Amazon as an online bookstore in 1995. The impact of an online bookstore providing not just discounts on the books, but speed and ease in having them show up at your door –…
Read MoreShining the Light on Peer Review
Peer review is a vital step in scientific publishing. Unfortunately it is often not formally taught. This interesting news came to us from EurekAlert! in their article, “PLOS announces new website for peer reviewers.” In support of its global peer reviewer community of more than 74,000 researchers, the Public Library of Science (PLOS) created the PLOS…
Read MoreGender Pay Inequity in the Publishing World
The average difference in pay between men and women in the publishing world of the United Kingdom is a sizable amount, ranging from 11.3% to 29.69%. The Guardian brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Gender pay gap figures reveal big publishing’s great divide.” Gender compensation disparity is not news in the…
Read MoreSocial Media Has Lost Its Appeal to Many
Social media is taking a beating these days with the words “fake news” being screamed from every street corner. Now, Facebook is facing a mass exodus after misappropriation of data is revealed. This interesting topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Is #DeleteFacebook Going to Change Academic Life and Scholarly Publishing?”…
Read MoreNew Platform for Academic Publishing
Cambridge University Press recently announced the expansion of Author Hub into a new, integrated online platform for book authors. This news came to us from STM Publishing in their article, “Cambridge University Press Announces New Home for Authors.” Author Hub originally launched in 2013 and offers services for current and prospective authors spanning all three of the…
Read MoreKeynotes for SSP Annual Meeting Named
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has released the names of the keynote speakers for their 40th annual meeting to be held May 30-June 1, in Chicago. This came to us from KnowledgeSpeak in their article, “Society for Scholarly Publishing announces keynote speakers for SSP 40th Annual Meeting.” Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble and Steve Mirsky…
Read MoreWebinar Series on Scholarly Publishing
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is offering a unique online webinar educational opportunity titled, “Trust, Truth and Scholarly Publishing: Publishing without perishing.” It is scheduled for April 26, 2018 at 10-11am EDT. Scholarly publishing can sometimes be challenging, but almost always has high publication rate and novel, newsworthy output. How can…
Read MoreKeynotes Announced for SSP’s 40th
The Society for Scholarly Publishing is holding their 40th annual meeting May 30-June 1, 2018 in Chicago. It seems fitting as they are celebrating theirs 40th anniversary that the theme for the conference – Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: What’s working, what’s holding us back, where do we go from here? – highlights the many crossroads…
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