Designing the Optimal Open Access Mandate
(openaccess.eprints.org): As the number of Open Access (OA) mandates adopted by universities worldwide grows it is important to ensure that the most effective mandate model is selected for adoption, and that a very clear distinction is made between what is required and what is recommended. By far the most effective… Read More
Publishers bet future on iPad they haven’t yet seen
(reuters.com): Publishers are placing big bets that Apple Inc's iPad will kick-start a commercially viable transition to digital magazines and newspapers -- even though few executives have laid hands on the tablet ahead of launch. In fact, many publishers likely will not announce their iPad applications until after the tablet… Read More
How bookselling sites are squeezing the independents
(booksandmud.blogspot.com): In the early days of internet bookselling, there was AbeBooks, a Canadian company launched in 1996 whose mission was to provide a platform for booksellers to reach a wider audience, whilst maintaining their individuality. You paid Abe a monthly fee for listing your books, and another fee when a… Read More
US Gov Requests Feedback on Open Access – ACM Gets it Wrong (Again)
(realtimerendering.com): The Association for Computing Machinery is attracting criticism for its opposition to public access. In 2008, legislation was passed requiring all NIH-funded researchers to submit their papers to an openly available repository within a year of publication. Even this modest step towards full open access was immediately attacked by… Read More
Managing information overload
(pressandjournal.co.uk): Developments in technology have dramatically changed every aspect of our lives. E-mails, texts, tweets, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, e-books and virtual libraries are terms that have become familiar to most people. Yet these developments are not without their problems. More than 494 exabytes of information are transferred seamlessly across… Read More
Library organisations come together to develop best cloud technologies
(iwr.co.uk): OCLC, the not-for-profit organisation is working closely with Library Advisory Council and pilot libraries to develop the Web-scale Management Services - a next-gen web-based suite of library management services for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, license management, and workflow. This project comes at a time when libraries are looking for… Read More
China’s Largest Society Publisher Chooses Scholarone Manuscripts
(scientific.thomsonreuters.com): The Chinese Medical Association (CMA), the largest society journal publisher in China, has chosen ScholarOne Manuscripts (formerly Manuscript Central) to manage online submission and peer review for their Chinese Medical Journal (CMJ). CMA’s decision to adopt ScholarOne Manuscripts is in line with their vision to build a world-class medical… Read More
How E-Books Will Change Reading And Writing
(kosu.org): Ten years ago, few imagined that by decade’s end, people would be reading novels on cell phones. A lot has changed in the book world. As digital platforms proliferate, writers are trying to figure out how to use them. Novelist Rick Moody recently wrote a story on the social… Read More
Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research
(arxiv.org): Articles whose authors make them Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them online are cited significantly more than articles accessible only to subscribers. Some have suggested that this "OA Advantage" may not be causal but just a self-selection bias, because authors preferentially make higher-quality articles OA. To test this self-selective… Read More
The Age of Systems Is Dawning — How Can Information Providers Respond?
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): When does a historical period end? When it’s supplanted by another, subsuming trend, one that imposes irrelevancy because it creates a superordinate framework, a superstructure that pushes the prior historical period into becoming raw material. In the Information Age, crafts of editing, typography, writing, and storytelling became the raw… Read More
