Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
Learning Opportunity in Metadata and Book Sales
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is offering an in-person or webinar learning opportunity on Wednesday, March 16th at 1:00-4:00 p.m. (EST). The topic will be “Increasing Discoverability and Sales Through Metadata: Enhancing Reach of Scholarly Books.” This seminar will address questions like “How exactly do researchers find books these days?” and “What role do librarians…
Read MoreLearning Initiative from AAP
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced the creation of a Center for Innovation & Digital Learning, an initiative designed to promote new ideas in the digital learning space and to support the development of next-generation educational technologies. This interesting information came to us from the Association of American Publishers in their article, “Association of…
Read MoreHarsh Realities
Publishers have come to a realization – kicking and screaming – that they must participate in metadata. It is important to develop standards and improve the accuracy of inputting the data to reach companies outside of their traditional customer base. The Bookseller brought this news to us in their article, “Publishers need to focus on metadata.”…
Read MoreTraditional Reading Options Win Out
A recent study showed 92% of college students would rather do their reading the old-fashioned way, you know, with paper. This interesting piece of information came to us from the Los Angeles Times in their article, “92% of college students prefer print books to e-books, study finds.” The finding comes from American University linguistics professor Naomi S. Baron, author…
Read MoreNew Publishing Platform Version Released
RSI Content Solutions recently released the availability of RSuite 5, their next generation publishing solution based on the MarkLogic platform. This interesting information came from PRWeb in their article, “RSI Content Solutions Launches New Version of its Award-Winning RSuite Publishing Solution.” This latest version provides a more integrated user experience to efficiently create and manage all types of digital content. They…
Read MoreFighting for Copyrights
Earlier this week a multitude of authors, publishers, rights organizations, and copyright experts from around the world filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the Authors Guild’s petition asking the Court to hear its case that Google must be held accountable for digitally copying millions of copyrighted books without permission or payment. This interesting news came…
Read MoreFree Webinar Featuring Semantic Technology
Semantic technology is changing so much things, including how users discover information. Often this happens without the users knowledge. If you want to learn more about how this can happen, take advantage of a free webinar offered by SAGE and featuring their LUXID technology. Content providers across all industries, not just publishing, are making significant investments…
Read MoreCopyright Educational Opportunity
Everyone needs a little help now and again. This time it comes from the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in the form of two webinars. These learning opportunities are designed to help you steer free of legal issues with copyright laws. SLA is offering the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of copyright topics. By participating…
Read MoreAttribution is Key
Giving credit where credit is due is always proper form in research papers. When there are multiple authors and/or contributors, it is customary to start listing alphabetically. In the cases where there are a large volume of names, they will use the first alphabetically appropriate researcher’s first initial and last name, with et al. to…
Read MoreOur Top Information Industry Trends of 2015
The Demise of the “Physical Book” has been exaggerated The Information Industry has no single central meeting Taxonomies are used in websites but not in search Analytics are booming. Changing information landscape Google Scholar Semantics, Linked Data, and the cloud Boomers are not retiring The weather in Albuquerque is cold and overcast with a chance…
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