Budget strains force radical change
(libraryjournal.com): The year 2009 will be remembered as one of angst, with the economy dominating news around the world. Few libraries were immune to the extraordinary financial pressures. The library marketplace by year's end was in a weakened position, with prospects of a long recovery at best. Concern persists that… Read More
Publishing Executives to Discuss New e-Reader Content Opportunities at London Book Fair
(businesswire.com): Next week at the London Book Fair 2010, LibreDigital president and CEO Russell P. Reeder will moderate a panel discussion exploring the options and risks for publishing companies delivering e-books on next-generation e-readers, tablets and mobile devices. Titled “Devising Strategies for Devices: the Challenges of Content Acquisition and Hosting… Read More
IPad Launches Genuine Publishing Revolution
(nowtnews.com): In all the hype and hyperbole surrounding Apple’s launch iPad, the moment’s true historic significance may get lost, cautions Seth Monsen, media analyst and historian at Patterson-Forbes Partners. Monsen carefully has tracked and detailed Apple’s evolution since first introduction of the Macintosh in 1984, treating his subject with strict… Read More
New Hope for Open Access
(insurancenewsnet.com): Publishers have raided library budgets for decades with absurdly excessive prices for the fruits of scholarly research already purchased by funding agencies and the compensation programs for scholars in the universities and institutions that conduct the research. The college and research library community has fought this exploitation with new… Read More
Google battle over Internet censorship goes far beyond China
(latimes.com): Google Inc.'s fight with China over Internet censorship made headlines around the world, but it has been engaged in similar battles around the globe. At least 25 countries, many of them with repressive regimes but even those with democracies, have at times blocked the public's access to Google over… Read More
Let’s Review Everything
(americanlibrariesmagazine.org): For many years, readers’ advisory has been a fundamental and valuable library service that has helped library patrons and others decide what books to borrow from a library or to buy from a book dealer. Librarians have also been prolific writers of book reviews, which have helped other librarians… Read More
London leads the digital information age
(iwr.co.uk): Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Carlo Ratti and Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer Washington DC, encouraged the Greater London Authority (GLA) group to continue moving forward with plans to release all of its data into the London Datastore launched earlier this year. The experts evaluated the opportunities and benefits… Read More
Public engagement opens doors for historical research online
(jisc.ac.uk): A new set of JISC projects are appealing for everyday experiences of history to help build digital resources for the public, community organisations and researchers. The five new projects are breaking down the boundaries between universities and the people around them as part of an investment in digital content… Read More
Transparent and accurate reporting increases reliability, utility, and impact of your research
(biomedcentral.com): Although current electronic methods of scientific publishing offer increased opportunities for publishing all research studies and describing them in sufficient detail, health research literature still suffers from many shortcomings. These shortcomings seriously undermine the value and utility of the literature and waste scarce resources invested in the research. In… Read More
Should Science Be Free for Everyone?
(genomeweb.com): The current system of research publication is "antiquated" and "hindering" science, and it's time to make the results of scientific studies openly available to everyone. Despite the fact that a lot of research is federally funded, much of it is only available through journals that require a paid subscription.… Read More
