Cascading Peer-Review — The Future of Open Access?
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): Focusing on reducing costs and improving efficiencies, many publishers have implemented services to redirect rejected manuscripts to related journals within their field. Apart from reducing the redundancy of having a paper shepherded through the peer-review process a second or third time, internal manuscript and peer-review referral services offers real… Read More
For the moment, e-books lacking in convenience
(statenews.com): In the age of the iPad and all things digital, it only seems natural that our traditional textbooks are making their way online in the form of e-books. Open-source e-books in particular, which are free and available online for anyone to use, offer up a compelling alternative to old-school… Read More
Will media experts find the key to guaranteed e-reader and tablet success?
(mediatel.co.uk): The huge interest in the potential of tablet computers and mobile e-reading devices for news distribution was evident in the turnout at this year's World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers International (WAN-IFRA) e-Reading and Tablets conference. Compared with last year's event, three times as many media professionals from… Read More
It’s all about survival in e-book industry
(business.globaltimes.cn): Survival of the fittest - the theory that the best-suited mutations will become dominant — may decide the fate of some companies in China's crowded e-book industry after the government recently kicked in new regulations aiming to limit new players. The new rules, designed to secure the long-term development… Read More
Dividends predicted for open culture
(timeshighereducation.co.uk): The British Library aims to build a concrete case for open access in the academy, with research findings from an exhibition that opened this week expected to provide evidence that research quality will improve in a culture of greater openness. Aleks Krotoski, researcher in residence for the Growing Knowledge:… Read More
Science and OA help UN achieve 2015 Millennium Development Goals
(blogs.openaccesscentral.com): Following the UN summit in New York, progress of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is an international talking point. Science is acknowledged as a significant factor in helping to achieve these MDGs, a number of UN targets intended to reduce global poverty and improve living standards. Read More
Recession-beating Academic Publishers Support Research and Education
(prweb.com): In a world where the internet has increasing global reach, Open Access publishing, a model operating on the principle that published works are free of charge to download, print and use for anybody, anywhere in the world, has the potential to change a lot about the way that people… Read More
Libraries must branch out into a world of tweets and blogs
(openpr.com): It is seven years now since the principle of legal deposit was extended to cover digital content. Since then, the British Library has pioneered technology for digital storage and preservation. By 2020, it is estimated that 75 percent of all titles worldwide will be published either digitally or in… Read More
California Could Reduce College Dropouts, Save Millions in State Funds by Utilizing Technology
(interestalert.com): In a report released this week, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) found that $467 million was spent by the state of California from 2003 to 2008 to support students at four-year colleges and universities who leave school before their sophomore year. The report also found that nationally, state… Read More
Effective search terms yield the right information
(alphagalileo.org): It does not matter how good a search engine is if the person doing a search does not ask for the desired information in the right way. So far, a great deal of the research on information retrieval has aimed to develop search algorithms and powerful search engines. Yet,… Read More
