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Information Today
September 2004
Richard Poynder |
Interview: Put Up or Shut Up Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier Science), discusses his plans for the company, scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal pricing, the Big Deal, and open access.   |
Information Today
December 2002
Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
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
April 30, 2001
Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists? |
Information Today
November 6, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp... |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today
January 22, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Science Expands and Repackages Its Online Offerings Elsevier Science and its ScienceDirect division have made a series of announcements recently about their products and services that are designed to provide customers with increased functionality and greater flexibility in their choices of content and pricing options... |
Information Today
November 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
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. |
Information Today
November 17, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
Information Today
February 2002
Dick Kaser |
Ghost in a Bottle The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them.... |
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... |
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... |
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
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? |
Information Today
February 18, 2002
Richard Poynder |
George Soros Gives $3 Million to New Open Access Initiative A new initiative to help provide free access to refereed articles on the Internet has received $3 million in funding from financier and philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Institute... |
Information Today
January 2004
Paula Hane |
The Latest Developments in Open Access, E-Books, and More Because of Online Information, it was a busy several weeks for news, despite the lull during the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. |
Information Today
January 2005
Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
Information Today
May 2001
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Provides Integrated Serials Solutions There may still be folks out there who only associate the name EBSCO with magazine subscriptions for libraries. But EBSCO Subscription Services is just one of two divisions within EBSCO Information Services... |
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
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
May 27, 2003
Richard Poynder |
BertelsmannSpringer Is Sold to Private Equity Firms German media and entertainment company Bertelsmann has announced the sale of its academic publishing group BertelsmannSpringer to the European private equity firms Candover and Cinven. |
Information Today
April 2004
Paula Hane |
EBSCO Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary If you haven't noticed, EBSCO is no longer just a journal-subscription company. |
Information Today
November 4, 2002
Richard Poynder |
Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer has announced the sale of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) to London-based private equity funds Candover and Cinven for approximately $591 million. |
Information Today
April 30, 2007 |
Elsevier Enhances ScienceDirect Elsevier, the STM publisher, announced that it has added several new features to ScienceDirect in its latest release. |
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
October 2000
Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
D-Lib
June 2004 |
The Use of Consortially Purchased Electronic Journals by the CBUC (2000-2003) The data obtained at the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) make a highly interesting empirical contribution to a major international discussion on the models for acquisition of scientific journals in the university libraries of the future. |
Information Today
May 29, 2007 |
Research Libraries Participate in ScienceDirect Ebooks Trial Elsevier announced that more than 900 research libraries and corporations from all over the world are participating in the trial of ebooks on ScienceDirect. |
Information Today
August 5, 2010 |
Elsevier Enriches Articles With Research Data Sets Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are deposited at PANGAEA. |
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. |
Information Today
April 10, 2006
Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
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 4, 2011 |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Get It Now for Academic Institutions The service complements academic institutions' interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing services by providing immediate fulfillment of full-text articles from unsubscribed journals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
Information Today
September 11, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest EBSCO Announces Partners for Journal Access... More Support for Federal Research Public Access Act... Evidence Matters Adds New Disease Modules... |
Information Today
February 2, 2012 |
WorldCat Local Users to Search SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals and Ebooks With this collaboration, Elsevier is strengthening its commitment to the library community, simplifying research for library patrons and enhancing usage of its scientific publications. |
Information Today
June 7, 2004
Robin Peek |
Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit Open Access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Information Today
April 15, 2013
Barbara Brynko |
Elsevier Acquires Mendeley For some industry onlookers, the news that Elsevier acquired Mendeley in early April came as no surprise. But the initial rumors in late December/early January about the possible sale shook the foundations of the research community. |
Information Today
December 11, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Science Previews New Web-Based Science Search Engine Elsevier Science has announced that it's developing a Web search engine for scientific information that will search both free and proprietary (access-controlled) content... |
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. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011 |
Elsevier and Ex Libris Group Announce Collaboration Elsevier and Ex Libris Group announced their collaboration to make the full text of SciVerse ScienceDirect journal articles and ebooks searchable in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index. |
D-Lib
October 2002
Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
Chemistry World
June 22, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
ACS compress print journals to favor online While changing habits among students and researchers have meant that online resources are increasingly popular, old-fashioned print journals are likely to linger for at least some time yet |
Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified? |
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. |
Information Today
March 5, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
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. |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
PC World
February 21, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Mine the Net for the Latest Research and Knowledge Hone your search skills to uncover troves of serious, primary-source material on the Web. |
