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.

ScienceAlerts.com adds Environmental Sciences category - 06 Jul 2012 ScienceAlerts.com, a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content, has announced that the latest addition to this website is the Environmental Sciences Category. The new category currently features more than 27,000 articles selected from over 150 scientific environment publishing sources. ScienceAlerts.com's Environmental Sciences category will cover the external physical conditions affecting growth, development, and survival of organisms, and their management. It currently contains 27,323 stories selected from 154 scholarly environment sciences journals. This category also provides an Environmental Sciences RSS feed which claims to be one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. ScienceAlerts.com's review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its' large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected.

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 02 Jul 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (Citation Cartel Journals Denied 2011 Impact Factor); Joe Wikert (We Should Open an eBookstore); Julia Wallace (Digital visibility is king but what colour is our Open Access future?); and Neelie Kroes (Ebooks shouldn't be restricted by European borders). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.