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Caught My Eye 6/6/13

gilsont — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:49:03 +0000

Publishers Propose Public-Private Partnership to Support Access to Research is a piece by Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education that reports on the formation of CHORUS (the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States). In the article, CHORUS is described as “a publisher-run partnership” that would employ “existing infrastructure [...]

Caught My Eye 6/4/13

gilsont — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:07:55 +0000

Shared Governance and Library Faculty: Jazzing Academic Community appeared in ACRLog and is a guest post from Sue Wiegand, Periodicals Librarian at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. Sue recounts her experience as the first librarian to serve as Chair of her Faculty Assembly and in the process touches on issues [...]

Caught My Eye 5/13/13

gilsont — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:12:08 +0000

Here are a few item from Publishing Perspectives; Magellan Media; Washington State University; JISC and LibraryScienceList.com we thought you might finding of interest.

Big Data and MOOCs Herald Change for Academic Publishers According to this article from Publishing Perspectives “big Data, MOOCs and author/researcher tools were the main themes [...]

Caught My Eye 4/17/13

gilsont — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:41:28 +0000

Here is an eclectic list of recent publications that includes an editorial in a local newspaper in Steamboat Springs, CO; a report in the NY Times on academic conferences and journals; a SPARC primer on article level metrics; a presentation made at the ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference; and a white paper sponsored by [...]

Caught My Eye: Southern Exposure – Trendy Charleston Restaurants

gilsont — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:24:41 +0000

We just posted the Call for Papers for the 2013 Charleston Conference so the timing couldn’t be better for this New York Times “Southern Exposure” article by Charleston culinary experts Matt and Ted Lee.

Matt and Ted highlight six trendy, must visit restaurants starting with James Beard Award-winning Chef [...]

Caught My Eye 4/3/13

gilsont — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:50:30 +0000

The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal is an article in TechCrunch that discusses a new long-form journalism startup called The Big Roundtable. The new start-up the brain child of Michael Shapiro a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism. Rather than the common practice [...]

Caught My Eye 4/1/13

gilsont — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:52:52 +0000

Here are a few recent articles and posts that we thought you might find of interest:

Fo r Libraries, MOOCs Bring Uncertainty and Opportunity In this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard reports on “a conference held here at the University of Pennsylvania last week, librarians talked about the [...]

Caught My Eye: Oxford University librarian is SACKED after students do the Harlem Shake

gilsont — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:46:49 +0000

Oxford University librarian is SACKED after students do the Harlem Shake in her prestigious library

Evidently, senior staff members at St. Hilda’s, a 120-year-old Oxford University College, are incensed that students disrupted the quiet of the library by filming themselves doing the Harlem Shake, the latest dance craze and posting it on

Caught My Eye 3/16/13

gilsont — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:19:23 +0000

Here are a number of fascinating articles/posts from a variety of sources including Forbes, CNET; All Twitter; JCB: the Journal of Cell Biology; and GalleyCat.

What Happens to Publishers and Authors If a Used Ebook Market Becomes Legal? If you found that our recent “Article of the Week” Here are a variety of items from a number of diverse sources including Good Ereader; Lapham’s Quarterly; the Chronicle of Higher Education; the Wall Street Journal and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Feature: Are eBook Apps, HTML5, or ePub3 the Future of Digital Publishing? This post on Good Ereader.com by Michael Kozlowski [...]

Caught My Eye 2/8/13

gilsont — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:54:33 +0000

Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections We reported the launch of Jeff Moyer’ new company, Reveal Digital in our News & Announcements 1/25/13 . Now, Barbara Quint in this post in Information Today elaborates on this enterprising effort to “create a network of library partners and specialty [...]

Caught My Eye 1/30/13

gilsont — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:35:36 +0000

World wide web creator sees open access future for academic publishing According to this post in PhysOrg, world wide web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee thinks “that the open access activists will win out” when it comes to the future of academic publishing. He was speaking at the launch of the $40 million CSIRO’s [...]

More Caught My Eye: 1/9/13

gilsont — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:33:19 +0000

Articles and posts from Information Today; the Huffington Post; Inside Higher ED; and NPR.

eLife, a New Scholarly Communication System. This article in Information Today reports on the debut of eLife claiming that “it is different enough from the traditional mode of scholarly communication that merely calling [...]

Caught My Eye: 1/9/13

gilsont — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:53:45 +0000

Oldest Southern library starts book bindery

Here is a fascinating article that highlights “the oldest library in the south” (the third oldest in the nation) and its recent efforts at starting a “book bindery to bind, by hand, new editions of historic books and repair books in its collection of tens of thousands [...]

Caught My Eye 12/30/12

gilsont — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:50:52 +0000

Video interviews: Can print and ebooks can coexist; stats on the “great promise of mobile”; a book publishing platform in open-source; an Amazon Crackdown on book reviews and Chemistry files on Dialog.

MediaShift . VIDEO: Can Print and E-Books Coexist? | PBS. In this post Joshua Davis of PBS’ MediaShift website [...]

Caught My Eye 12/15/12

gilsont — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:04:24 +0000

What we will see in 2013 in Digital Media

In this fascinating look into the future, paidContent‘s media team offers their predictions for the coming year in the digital content business. Some seem obvious like the projection that the remaining book publishers will settle with the DOJ in the ebook pricing lawsuit while [...]

Caught My Eye: 12/1/12

gilsont — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:17:51 +0000

A number of recent posts have caught our eye including one discussing student surveys; one on usage statistics and another on e-book policies – as well as a couple of others.

Assessing Campus Libraries

This report from Inside HigherED on a Library Journal survey suggests that while “students [...]

More Caught My Eye

gilsont — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:52:29 +0000

Here are some additional items from the Scholarly Communications at Duke blog; The Scientist; Information Today; and Book Business that you might find of interest:

Is the Web just a faster horse? In this post on his Scholarly Communications at Duke blog, Kevin Smith discusses a recent public talk and workshop led by Jason Priem, [...]

Caught My Eye 10/29/12

gilsont — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:51:03 +0000

There are a few items that have “caught our eye” in the last couple of weeks that we wanted to share. Check them out. They are well worth the read!

Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well This article in the Atlantic by journalist turned book editor/publisher Peter Osnos points [...]

Caught My Eye: The Spine Nine: Gabriel Books

gilsont — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:07:15 +0000

The Spine Nine: Gabriel Books

This is a fascinating interview with John Riley owner of Gabriel Books and Eastern Regional Sales Manager for BUSCA, Inc. Oh! Did we mention that John is also a frequent contributor to Against the Grain and one of the driving forces in the highly entertaining Charleston [...]