Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
Learning Opportunity Around Open Access
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique learning opportunity before the year’s end. On Monday, December 19th at 11:00 a.m. (EST), they will offer the webinar titled, “Document Delivery in the Information Ecosystem.” The webinar will address issues in the world of scholarly publishing and open access. Scholarly output continues…
Read MoreLearning Opportunities in the New Year
The Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) are offering two unique learning opportunities in January. The PSP Books Committee will be hearing from guest speakers Matt Cooper & Emma Brink (Wiley) to speak about early publishing careers on Friday, January 13, 2017 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. (EST) at the AAP/NY offices or via webinar. Did you…
Read MoreDigital Has Its Place
The demise of print is starting to sound like Chicken Little and “the sky is falling.” As early as the 1990s, the CEO of a major professional publisher announced that “print is dead”, though he publicly recanted that statement several years later. Despite the advances in digital technology and e-products, print sales have remained the prize…
Read MoreNon-Executive Director Positions Available
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…
Read MoreDigital Publisher Reaches Milestone
The Financial Times has secured more revenue from digital than print, making it the first mainstream UK newspaper to be able to describe itself as a truly “digital content business.” The Guardian brought this news to us in their article, “The Financial Times passes another major digital milestone.” In times where everyone is pondering whether print is dead…
Read MoreThe Oxymoron of Fake News
Much focus is on the validity of news these days and even more questions as to why it’s so prevalent. This interesting information came to us from Information Today Europe in their article, “Fake news – the awful truth.” There are several reasons why people produce fake news stories or entirely fake news sites. Follow…
Read MorePublishing Challenges
The widespread use of Sci-Hub for research papers has fueled one of the most important academic debates in recent times. This interesting information came to us from the London School of Economics and Political Science and their blog post, “The current system of knowledge dissemination isn’t working and Sci-Hub is merely a symptom of the problem.” Sci-Hub…
Read MoreBack and Forth
In the ongoing saga of paper vs. digital, results from recent studies add a whole new caveat to the issue. Digital learning materials are improving student performance in college, resulting in higher exam scores, better grades, and fewer students dropping out of classes. The American Association of Publishers brought this to our attention in their article,…
Read MoreGetting to Know Your Libaries
Many believe academic libraries and publishers can work together more effectively to deliver on their shared core mission – to foster access to the world’s knowledge across disciplinary, institutional and national boundaries for researchers, students and academics alike. This interesting information came to us from USKG in their opinion piece, “Managing relationships between libraries and publishers for…
Read MoreScholarly Publishing Still Has Street Cred
Many critics believe that Facebook users have been influenced by “fake news” on Facebook in their election decisions. Whether you agree with them or with Mark Zuckerberg who adamantly contends this isn’t happening and that fake news is not very prevalent on Facebook, you have likely been a recipient of the trending news list fed by an algorithm. The…
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