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Good Question! Why are shares of B&N returning 34.5 percent over the last 12 months if books, their main stock in trade, are on life support? There is no denying that on the surface things are not looking good for the bookstore giant as it continues to suffer revenue shortfalls and negative operating cash [...]
Read More... →A number of you may have read Information Today‘s article F1000Research Launches Following Successful Beta-Testing Phase reporting the successful launch of F1000Research’s new Open Science publishing program for life scientists. According to the article this new publishing platform offers “researchers for the first time immediate publication, transparent and fast peer-review post-publication, and [...]
Read More... →As many of you will remember, the recent Charleston Conference ended with a Hyde Park Corner Debate between Rick Anderson and Derek Law over the proposition that the traditional research library is dead. After a feisty debate, Rick prevailed when the audience vote to support his argument that traditional research libraries are in [...]
Read More... →The 12 Planets and the Unidentified Flying Elephant
By Sue Wiegand
Okay, so the elephant isn’t really flying, but the six blind monks in the old story who were trying to identify it based on different parts of its anatomy (“It’s like a tree branch!” cried the one who touched [...]
Read More... →As many of you know the Finch Committee Report and its support of “gold” open access has gotten a lot of press both pro and con. The battle lines continue to be drawn. InfoDOCKET reports an article in the Guardian that notes the UK government “is to unveil controversial plans to [...]
Read More... →Recently Jason Pontin, editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review raised some eyebrows with his provocative article Why Publishers Don’t like Apps. Mr. Pontin claims that two years ago publishers were “overtaken by a collective delusion.” They thought that the advent of iPADs and smartphones promised a way to deliver their newspaper [...]
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