Assessing the corporate tablet field: Why the enterprise may be different
(zdnet.com): It’s quite possible that tablet makers could fare well by becoming business players as Apple runs away with the consumer market. The consumer market is ruled by price and performance (and more the former). Given that most Apple rivals are pricing their tablets exactly the same as the iPad,… Read More
Google Antitrust Reviews Said to Be Split by Two U.S. Agencies
(sfgate.com): The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission ended two years of jockeying to lead an antitrust probe of Google Inc. by agreeing to divide their responsibilities. Under the arrangement, the Justice Department Antitrust Division will review any planned acquisitions by Google for their possible effects on competition. Read More
Killing Peer Review
(insidehighered.com): When a cadre of international scientific research powerhouses announced last month that they were teaming up to create a top-shelf, peer-reviewed free journal in the medical and life sciences fields, some called it a "triumph of open access" — proof that the tide was turning in favor of a… Read More
E-books Rapidly Increasing in Reading Groups
(publishersweekly.com): Reading group members nationwide are increasingly choosing e-books and e-readers over traditional print books, according to a survey by Reading Group Choices (RGC). The survey shows that 25% of reading group members are using e-books, up 10 percentage points from 2009. Read More
Publishers Strong Arm for Impact Factors?
(the-scientist.com): A survey shows that younger researchers in the social sciences and business fields are being told to cite more papers from the journal that is publishing their work. The practice is intended to increase the number of times the journal is mentioned in citations overall, thereby upping its impact… Read More
The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012
For well over a decade, research libraries have been spending millions of dollars per year licensing collections of journals published by just a handful of publishers. Ten years ago ARL surveyed its membership about their licensed collections of journal titles. In 2002, ARL asked for information regarding members’ expenditures for… Read More
Americans Still Prefer Traditional Books, Despite Growth in E-Books
Many readers across multiple generations continue to read traditional books, mass-market, paperback, and hardcover. The catch is that the readers are also reading e-books too, creating a literary environment of ink and pixels coexisting in a hybrid literary culture. Electronic versions of many books are available online. Some works in… Read More
Africa: Open Access Is Not Free. Someone Is Doing the Work. Someone Is Paying
Silicon Valley futurist, Steward Brand, states that all information should be made available for free. But his corollary is that the information wants to be expensive because it is so valuable. There is always a value chain, and costs are incurred, on a continuing basis, whatever the platform that houses… Read More
Why your big data strategy is a bust
In retiring Gartner's Hype Cycle for big data, Heudecker blithely reasons that 'big data is no longer a topic unto itself' and needn't be treated as such. This is similar to what happened with open source: For years it was a big topic, then it became standard operating procedure for… Read More
The Evolution of the MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. Citations in the MLA… Read More
