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arnie Grossblatt

2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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  • "What I believe—and this is what we're putting to the test—is that as you're putting something online free of charge, you may lose a few sales, but you'll gain other sales because more people will know about it," said Frances Pinter, Bloomsbury Academic's publisher.
  • She would like Bloomsbury Academic to demonstrate that publishers can add editorial value to scholarship without having to choose between locking it down or giving it all away.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 02 Oct 08
     
    Free and shared cost models for academic publishing. Cites other organizations that, like NAP, have sustainable models with free content.
Rachel Manwill

Academic Publishers: Suicide Bombers Against the Academy - 1 views

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shared by Rachel Manwill on 11 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Rachel Manwill on 11 Jan 12
     
    Commentary on the broken-ness of academic publishing.
Ryan Reeh

When it's unethical to be a well-published academic | Practical Ethics - 0 views

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  • Ryan Reeh on 14 Jul 11
     
    An editorial from an Oxford philosophy professor on the problem of publishing pointless papers being unethical in academic publishing - he argues there is a little of unoriginal drivel being recycled from old papers.
arnie Grossblatt

Library Inc. - - 2 views

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  • Yet libraries, the intellectual heart of universities, have become perhaps the most commercialized academic area within universities, with troubling implications for the future of higher education.
  • Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
  • Over the last decade, however, as the number and cost of journals have soared, most libraries have decided to forgo purchasing hard copies. The shift from owning a journal to merely providing access to its digital incarnation has, of course, saved some money. But those savings come in tandem with detrimental changes both to the content of library collections and the ways those collections are used.
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  • According to both the professional literature and information-vending companies' usability studies, a library's chief task is to meet the information needs of its patrons
  • For university libraries, retrieving what is known should be only the beginning. They are laboratories of the mind, unique places where questions that have never before been asked can be formulated and answered; they are centers of teaching where patrons can learn about the organization and the production of knowledge
  • or universities, the libraries' experience is a cautionary tale. Commercial practices, technologies, and innovations often seem to benefit and support the academic mission of universities. But commercial innovations are not value-free, and it has proven very difficult for libraries to embrace some components while rejecting others.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 04 Nov 10
     
    Interesting, if a bit unbalanced, about the corruption of university libraries by commercial publishers and the pressure of "good enough" information in a Googlized world
arnie Grossblatt

Bloomsbury Academic - 0 views

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 16 Sep 08
     
    Something worth tracking. Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury, announces it will publish, both online and in print, open access textbooks under the creative commons license. First titles to be available in Spring 2009
Kellie Davis

How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now - 1 views

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  • Kellie Davis on 30 Aug 13
     
    If you want to understand the modern academy, it wouldn't hurt to start at "impact factor." Every year, the company Thomson Reuters assigns every academic journal an "impact factor." Impact factors measure, roughly, how often papers published in one journal are cited by other journals. It is an ecological measurement, in other words.
Ellen Levy

Scientific publishing: Brought to book | The Economist - 2 views

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  • Ellen Levy on 22 Jul 12
     
    Academic journals face a radical shake-up.
Michael Jensen

Professors Posting Pricey Textbooks on the Web - Switched - 0 views

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  • Michael Jensen on 18 Sep 08
     
    Examples of how academics may be striking back at high textbook prices. May have dramatic effects on the textbook market, over time.
Ryan Holman

Blackwell Publishing's Code of Ethics - 1 views

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  • Ryan Holman on 06 Jul 11
     
    Academic publisher's code of ethics
Kori Kamradt

Amazon to Launch Kindle for Textbooks - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • Kori Kamradt on 05 May 09
     
    Amazon will unveil a new Kindle e-book reader with features designed to appeal to periodical and academic- textbook publishers.
arnie Grossblatt

Re-imagining the future of the university press - 2 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 22 Nov 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 22 Nov 10
     
    This issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing is devoted to the future of university presses.
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