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Searcher October 2000 Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Preprint Servers: Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Scholarly Publishing Consulting with peers has traditionally dominated the way researchers gather information. Those peers often identify proposed publications. Electronic preprints allow access to information without the time lag inherent in traditional publishing... |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today April 2001 Robin Peek |
The Tangled Scholarly Publishing Mess If the seemingly unending financial gravy train that's been the Internet really goes south, then how many resources will be available for further improvements in scholarly publishing? |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Searcher December 2000 Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
D-Lib December 2001 Stephen Pinfield |
How Do Physicists Use an E-Print Archive? This paper describes how physicists make use of an established centralized subject-based e-prints service, arXiv (formerly known as the Los Alamos XXX service), and discusses the possible implications of this use for institutional multidisciplinary e-print archives... |
Information Today March 5, 2012 |
Wiley-Blackwell Adds 44 Titles to Journal Publishing Program in 2012 Brand new titles publishing on Wiley Online Library over the course of 2012 include Advanced Healthcare Materials, PsyCH Journal, Clinical Liver Disease, Food and Energy Security and the open access title Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease. |
Information Today February 7, 2011 |
Wiley Launches New Program of Open Access Journals The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Greg R. Notess |
Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better. |
Information Today September 3, 2001 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals In a major new publishing initiative, BioMed Central has expanded its role in pioneering alternatives for scholarly publishing on the Web... |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
D-Lib February 2000 Herbert Van de Sompel & Carl Lagoze |
The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative The Open Archives initiative promotes and encourages the development of author self-archiving solutions through the development of technical mechanisms and organizational structures to support interoperability... |
Information Today June 23, 2003 Robin Peek |
NLM Proposes New Journal Standards The Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (JAIDTD) is freely available for public use and creates a standard that, if broadly adopted, could signal a significant sea change in the future of scholarly journals. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley |
Reactive Profile--Bryan Vickery, Chemistry Central Having ruined too many pairs of jeans, this chemist opted for a desk job instead of a bench job. He is currently Publisher at BioMed Central with special interest in Chemistry Central. |
D-Lib December 1999 Stevan Harnad |
Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals Whither the vaunted system of the peer-reviewed journal in this new age of nearly-free cyberpublishing? |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified? |
D-Lib May 2003 Tenopir et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases This article provides some evidence of how scientists' information seeking and reading patterns are affected by using journals in three system phases. |
D-Lib September 2004 Van de Sompel et al. |
Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve Opportunities abound in the world of 21 st century publishing and the discussion on transforming scholarly communication must move beyond the debate of subscription-based vs. open access publication. |
D-Lib February 2006 Titia van der Werf-Davelaar |
Facilitating Scholarly Communication in African Studies A look at the aspects of the transformation in academic publishing, looking at it from the perspective of the Africanist community in the Netherlands. |
D-Lib December 2008 Bonita Wilson |
Evolution in the Area of Digital Scholarly Communication Journal editors or librarians from 1958 would be amazed at the technology we have in 2008, but they would have no trouble recognizing the fundamentals of today's scholarly publications. |
Information Today November 25, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Paperity Hopes to Create a Comprehensive Index of Open Literature Paperity, "The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers," launched on Oct. 8. |
Information Today May 2008 Marji McClure |
Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model. |
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Open Access Advancing One year after the NIH began to encourage researchers to make their findings freely available online, two U.S. senators introduced a new bill to Congress that proposes to both toughen and expand that open-access policy to include most federally funded research. |
Search Engine Watch April 12, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search The targeted search service is focused on connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information, and addresses two needs of the academic community that have traditionally been under-served. |
Information Today March 2003 Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Information Today March 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
Information Today April 16, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Societies Unite to Create Scitopia.org Search Portal Thirteen scholarly society publishers are working together to create a free federated, vertical search portal capable of accessing some 3 million articles spanning as far back as 150 years, as well as some patents. |
Information Today July 23, 2009 Barbara Quint |
`Digital-Only' Confusion in Scholarly Publishing: American Chemical Society ACS will continue to monitor both readers' views and library customers' purchase patterns to determine its future product media and formats. |
Information Today November 3, 2011 |
Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access program. It has also announced a new list of OA publications. |
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Chemistry World March 2, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
D-Lib October 2000 |
In Brief The Digital Performance Archive... Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives... SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries... Librarians agonize over which journals to cancel when library budgets can't keep up... etc. |
Information Today September 3, 2002 Miriam A. Drake |
Elsevier Teams with Dutch National Library for Digitization Project Elsevier Science and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, have announced an agreement that designates KB as the first official digital archive for Elsevier journals. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
Information Today June 25, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
PeerJ Launches with a New Business Model for Open Access Publishing PeerJ, launched on June 12, 2012 amid a great deal of buzz, has introduced a new approach into the mix with a two-pronged strategy that includes membership fees to cover costs and ongoing peer-review responsibilities for authors to retain membership. |
Information Today October 16, 2014 |
Thomson Reuters and CCC Simplify OA Workflows With ScholarOne Manuscripts, scholarly publishers and societies can access submission, correspondence, review, reporting, and user management for OA articles from one platform. |
Information Today December 18, 2008 |
New Scholarly Journal ticTOCs Service Launches It's free, it's easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of more than 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. |
Information Today December 8, 2003 Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
D-Lib January 2004 Jonas Holmstrom |
The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. |
Information Today September 21, 2009 Robin Peek |
A Compact for Open Access Publication Announced Open-access publishing promises to put more research in more hands and in more places around the world. This is a good enough reason for universities to embrace the guiding principles of this compact. |
Information Today April 29, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education." |
Information Today May 23, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
Dialogue Over Public Access to Scholarly Publications Continues in the U.S. The conversation surrounding OA and public access today is vastly different from 5 years ago when the NIH policy was passed. The conversation in general has shifted from whether OA is a good thing to how to best implement it |