Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 30 Jul 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Judyluther (Altmetrics - Trying to Fill the Gap? ); Kent Anderson (Review: "Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back"); Cameron Neylon (How can scholarly societies survive as we move ever closer to Open Access?); Mike Shatzkin (The ebook marketplace is about to change…a lot) and Stephen Curry (UK plan for open access to research is a golden opportunity, not a cost). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

New home for Nature Network blogs on SciLogs.com - 27 Jul 2012 Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced the launch of SciLogs.com, a new English language blogging network for scientists and science communicators. Nature Network bloggers will be amongst the first to take up their new home on the Wordpress-based site. SciLogs.com is hosted by Spektrum der Wissenschaft, part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG). The English language site joins the popular German language blogging network, SciLogs.de, and Dutch (SciLogs.be) and Spanish (SciLogs.es) sites, which together have more than 100 active bloggers. More than 25 Nature Network blogs are making a new home on SciLogs.com. They have transferred their full archive with them, so that previous conversations are preserved for posterity. Redirects are in place so that links and search indexing continues to work seamlessly. SciLogs.de has been hosting blogs since October 2007 and currently has around 350,000 page views per month. Blogs are written by active scientists and science communicators and include researchers at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bremen and the Max Planck Institute. Spektrum der Wissenschaft is an international edition of Scientific American, which became part of NPG in 2009. Launched in July 2011, the Scientific American Blog Network, http://blogs.scientificamerican.com, brings together 15 blogs by Scientific American staff with 38 blogs from more than 40 independent bloggers. Blogs written by Nature-branded journal editors and other NPG staff are now hosted at http://blogs.nature.com

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 23 Jul 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joe Wikert (Can You Force a Customer to Buy Print Instead of E?); David Wojick (Complying with the RCUK Mandate . . . Or Not); Elizabeth Tait and Jennifer Holden (Tracking digital impact: The challenge of evidencing impact); Glyn Moody (Open Access: Not All That is Gold Glisters) and Mercy Pilkington (Long Term Effects of the DoJ Lawsuit Against Apple, Publishers). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 16 Jul 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Mike Shatzkin (Publishing in the Cloud is the next big important subject); Stevan Harnad (Overselling the Importance and Urgency of CC-BY for Peer-Reviewed Scholarly and Scientific Research); Mark Carrigan (Do 'prestigious' journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world); and Martyn Daniels (So How Will Digital Growth Impact Physical Decline?). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 09 Jul 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Heather Morrison (June 30, 2012 Dramatic Growth of Open Access); Mike Shatzkin (What retailers know that publishers need to know); Stevan Harnad (Why the UK Should Not Heed the Finch Report); Martyn Daniels (Digital Files Aren't Just For Christmas, But For Life) and Les Rose (The problem with medical publishing). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.