Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
The Interoperability Imperative
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering an educational opportunity in the form of a webinar addressing “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles.” In a landscape inundated with data-driven research output, institutional repositories and content provider partnerships are beginning to take more of a hold than ever in the scholarly research community. This NFAIS…
Read MorePublishing Gets a Depressing Report Card
Industry reports indicate that publishers’ revenues were down in January 2016 as compared to January 2015. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) brought this interesting information to us in their release, “Publishers Sales Down at the Start of 2016, eBooks Decline.” There were double-digit declines in childrens/YA books and adult books, paperback books grew slightly, and…
Read MoreSave the Dates
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering some educational and networking opportunities this summer, so before you are all booked up take a look and register for one or two, or all. Consider it your summer school. Open Data Fostering Open Science: Meeting Researchers’ Needs Thursday, June 16 (9:00 am – 10:45 am…
Read MoreCopyright Issue on the Table
The California Assembly Committee on Judiciary recently approved a bill to grant local and state governments copyright authority along with other intellectual property rights. AB 2880 will give state and local governments the power to limit speech and open government. The Electronic Frontier Foundation brought this news to our attention in their article, “California’s Legislature Wants to Copyright…
Read MoreFree, But Fair
Sci-Hub has been in the news a lot lately, but few people truly understand what it is and how it affects academic journals and their authors. American Libraries Magazine brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Sci-Hub: What It Is and Why It Matters.“ Sci-Hub is a website that makes more than 48 million…
Read MoreTracking the Data
Late in 2014, Scholarly Kitchen shared with us a project with Ithaka S+R to research Amazon’s book sales to academic libraries. Some early results are in and they can be viewed on the Ithaka Web site. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Update on a Library Research Project.” The project began at the…
Read MoreLearning Opportunities from AAP
There are several webinars and educational opportunities in the works over the next couple weeks with enough variety to find something of interest to you. The Publishing & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Journals Committee of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) will be featuring guest speaker Cassidy Sugimoto from Indiana University Bloomington to talk about altmetrics in a webinar being offered…
Read MoreRecent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has been acquired by Elsevier with the promise that it will be further developed with Mendeley, Elsevier’s scholarly collaboration network, to provide users with leading content, data linking, enhanced metrics and researcher workflow tools. PR Newswire brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Elsevier Acquires the Social Science Research…
Read MoreThe Next Generation
Sci-Hub is the piracy network for academic journals and it has many a publisher and author pointing fingers and calling names. Researchers are likely calling names as well, but they might actually be repeatable. This interesting information came to us from The Chronicle of Higher Education in their article, “What Do the Authors of Sci-Hub’s Most-Downloaded…
Read MoreStrengthening the Data
A leading index of open-access journals may shrink by more than one-quarter after an effort to exclude questionable and inactive publishers. This interesting information came to us from Nature in their article, “Open-access index delists thousands of journals.” The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is following up on its promise of two years ago that it would…
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