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Information Today October 2000 Robin Peek |
Focus on Publishing: E-Prints Are Gaining Momentum While e-prints have been a well-known topic of discussion in scholarly journal circles for years now, producing them is still a bigger, and more difficult step to take than just digitizing journals. And unlike photocopier disdain, there isn't yet the universal groundswell to rally the masses... |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
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. |
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. |
Information Today March 7, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
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 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... |
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 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. |
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 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." |
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. |
Information Today September 22, 2011 |
De Gruyter Acquires bepress Journal Porfolio The agreement covers a total of 67 journals in the areas of law, business/economics, humanities, and natural sciences |
Information Today January 13, 2011 |
University Presses to Publish Books Online at JSTOR Five leading university presses -- Chicago, Minnesota, North Carolina, Princeton, and Yale -- are at the forefront of a new effort to publish scholarly books online as part of the non-profit service JSTOR. |
D-Lib February 2006 Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication 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. |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
Information Today October 13, 2009 |
SPARC Reviews Income Models for Open Access Publishing The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open access publishers in a new guide, Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice. |
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 |
Information Today January 7, 2014 |
OASPA Releases Scholarly Publishing Principles The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association posted a set of 16 principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing on its website. |
Information Today March 28, 2011 |
Books at JSTOR Initiative Grows Four U.S. academic publishers announced plans to bring their scholarly books online at JSTOR -- Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and California University Presses. |
Information Today September 2001 Ana Arias Terry |
SSP Annual Meeting 2001 E-books took a back seat to discussions about collaboration and experimentation... |
Information Today April 21, 2011 |
AcademicPub Launches Custom Publishing Option for Higher Ed AcademicPub, a unit of SharedBook, Inc., has launched the first custom publishing option for the real time delivery of copyright-cleared course materials to the higher education community. |
D-Lib November 2002 Richard K. Johnson |
Institutional Repositories Partnering with faculty to enhance scholarly communication using digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community. |
Information Today May 30, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
First UK Survey of Academics 2012 Issued by Ithaka S+R The survey examines the attitudes and behaviors of researchers at academic institutions across the U.K. with regard to digital technologies, the internet, and open access. |
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 April 4, 2013 |
New ACRL White Paper: 'Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy' This white paper explores and articulates three intersections among scholarly communication and information literacy. |
Information Today November 29, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Offers Free Ejournal Publishing Service The University of Pittsburgh Library System is now offering free e-journal publishing services to help academic journals make their content available to a global audience while eliminating the cost of print production. |
D-Lib March 2001 Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: Planning Enduring Repositories for Digital Scholarly Communication |
D-Lib February 2006 Bonita Wilson |
Unrestricted Access New business models are emerging to ensure the goal of timely and open access to high quality scholarly information is met and that such access will continue far into the future. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula Hane |
Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse. |
Information Today February 11, 2013 |
bepress to Preserve Digital Commons Ejournals With Portico Nonprofit electronic archiving service provider Portico announced that bepress entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve ejournals hosted on bepress Digital Commons publishing 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. |
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 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. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2012 |
EBook Buzz: University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon What's the buzz about? EBook Buzz, ONLINE's newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 Giglia & Galimberti |
ELPUB 2009 - Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies In the three-day event, 40 speakers from each of the five continents presented papers on Open Access, digital preservation, and scholarly communication processes and quality control. |
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 June 9, 2008 |
Microsoft's Article Authoring Add-In Now Available in Beta A key value of the Article Authoring Add-in is in enabling editors at scientific and technical journals to create article templates, tailored for their individual journals' requirements. |
Information Today February 26, 2015 |
NASIG and SSP Collaborate on Information Policy Event NASIG and the Society for Scholarly Publishing will host a joint full-day program, Evolving Information Policies & Their Implications: A Conversation for Librarians & Publishers. |
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. |
Information Today February 28, 2011 |
New Functionality for Cambridge Journals Online These enhancements include a new suite of tailored features for publishers and societies, while readers benefit from greater convenience, more powerful tools, and faster access to the latest research. |
Information Today November 27, 2006 Rebecca Lenzini |
Wiley to Acquire Blackwell Publishing Continuing the trend toward consolidation in the scholarly publishing community, John Wiley & Sons announced on Nov. 17, 2006, that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the outstanding shares of Blackwell Publishing. |
Information Today August 30, 2010 |
ebrary Offers CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Published annually, the CHOICE OAT list represents the top 10% of more than 7,000 academic books, electronic media, and internet resources reviewed by CHOICE that year. |
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. |
Searcher February 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage. |
Information Today November 2004 Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
Information Today October 10, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
University Presses Lead the Way for Publisher-Based Ebook Systems University presses seem to share natural affinities for innovative ways to reach their audiences. |
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... |
Information Today July 18, 2011 |
Cambridge University Press to Launch Platform for Other Academic Publishers From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide libraries with ebooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide. |