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by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
Richard Price of Academia.edu is predicting that altmetrics will kill the scientific journal. Projects like Rubriq might affect them too. The Scholarly Kitchen has an interview with Rubriq’s co-founder Keith Collier about how they’re managing pre-pub peer review, “independent from journals.”
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by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
Big week. Did you hear that brand-new Connecticut State Rep. Brian Sear (D) introduced a bill yesterday “to require publishers of electronic books to offer e-books for sale to public and academic libraries at the same rates as offered to the general public”?
I bet you did [...]
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JSTOR has officially launched its Register & Read program, which allows the public to access a limited number of articles free of charge, in exchange for their personal information. JSTOR has also published a statement about activist Aaron Swartz, whose death has sparked a flurry of articles and [...]
Read More... →by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
It’s beginning to look a lot like 2012. The hot topics so far this year seem to be the growth in e-book reading, open access, and merging publishers.
Pew Internet has released a research report on e-books vs. print, based on a US readership survey from this past fall. [...]
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In the wake of last Friday’s Sandy Hook massacre, the business of publishing and library acquisitions might seem insignificant in comparison. But please do your patrons a favor. We challenge our librarian colleagues to take a little time today and make sure your collections are up to date on [...]
Read More... →by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
So now that we’ve recovered from the Charleston Conference, Thanksgiving, etc., and hopefully caught up with our families and our careers as academic semesters wind down, we’re catching up on the past few weeks of news. The following items might seem a bit random, [...]
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