Future of Book Publishing is Unknowable
(Laobserved.com): Steve Wasserman, the former Los Angeles Times book editor who is now an agent and book editor at Truthdig, gave a keynote address in Guadalajara in which he said predicting the future of BOOK publishing is impossible. The predicament facing the publishing industry is best understood against the backdrop… Read More
US Patent office gain access to India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
(patentbaristas.com): India and the United States have signed two inter-governmental agreements on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to help prevent what they say is the misappropriation of traditional knowledge through mistaken issuance of patents, what some call biopiracy. ‘Biopiracy’ describes a process in which living resources or traditional knowledge and practices… Read More
Journal Retraction Guidelines Stress Correction
(Medpagetoday.com): According to new guidelines from an international organization of scientific editors, the goal of a journal retraction is to correct the literature, not to punish erring authors. A journal should retract a publication if there's clear evidence its findings are unreliable, either because of misconduct or honest error, the… Read More
Gale and Portico Enter into an Agreement To Preserve Gale Digital Collections
(Portico.org): Portico will be preserving ten major digitized historical collections from Gale including 19th Century United States Newspapers, The Making of Modern Law, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online. With this new addition, Portico helps libraries protect and ensure reliable, future access to an even wider range of digital content in… Read More
Data-sharing culture has changed
(Researchinformation.info): The article looks at how technology and funding policies have changed the way researchers share data. Data sharing clearly works in those areas where it has gained community traction such as biomedical research. Most research councils now encourage or mandate the sharing of data, stipulating that funding applications must… Read More
Libraries as important meeting places at universities
(alphagalileo.org): Library buildings play a vital role at universities and university colleges. Their architectural design is of particular importance for librarians, as this affects their interaction with visitors, among other things. These are the findings of a new thesis for University of Gothenburg, Sweden, which examined the planning of one… Read More
Scientists urge reform of ‘lethal’ libel law
(timesonline.co): England’s draconian libel laws pose a danger to public health because they are interfering with the research published by medical journals, senior editors and scientists said. Doctors are being denied access to critical medical information because academic publications have refused to accept important papers for fear of being sued,… Read More
Increasing Self-Archiving of Faculty Publications in Institutional Repositories
(infosherpas.com): Despite the increasing interest in institutional repositories by academic institutions and recognition that publisher policies make widespread green open access currently achievable, faculty deposits in institutional repositories remain low. Surveys show that faculty support open access initiatives, but may be held back from participation in institutional repositories for several… Read More
Repositories and preservation programme – evaluation
(jiscinvolve.org): From 2006-2009 JISC ran the repositories and preservation programme. This represented a 14 million pound investment in repositories to store the outputs of research and learning, the preservation of those outputs and the infrastructure and technologies necessary to manage this large scale curation of content. Read More
Dramatic Growth of Open Access
(poeticeconomics.blogspot.com): While dramatic growth continues in all aspects of open access, the story of the year and especially of the last quarter is a dramatic leap in open access mandate policies, particularly institutional and departmental policies. OA mandate mania is sure to continue ~ not only are discussions underway at… Read More
