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Open Access Press Offers Free Hosting
Journal Editors and Managers: for a limited time, Open Access Press will host your digital journal on the Open Journal Systems platform FREE for the first year, with a three year agreement. Normal pricing of $700 U.S. applies for years … Continue reading
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Another one bites the dust: East Tennessee University Press Will Close
Another University press has buckled under the weight of changing economics in the academic publishing game, and reduced budgets at many American universities. The East Tennessee University press will lay-off its remaining 11 employees as of August 31, according to … Continue reading
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Elsevier Under Fire for Fake Scientific Journals
This story was reported in the British press a couple weeks ago, but in my mind hasn’t gotten quite enough play. What you have here is a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company producing six publications it passed off to the scientific … Continue reading
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First U.S. Public Access Policy Made Permanent
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition announced today that the appropriations act just passed contains a provision making the NIH Open Access policy permanent. From the release: President Obama yesterday signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which … Continue reading
Paying for Open Access Publication Charges
There is a lot of talk about Article Processing Charges (APC) and Open Access, and it just has never seemed to me that that is a sustainable business model. The issue comes up yet again in the RIN Report “Paying … Continue reading
Funding Available for the Digital Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities recently sent out a clarification regarding a couple of different programs that humanities scholars can use to digitaize scholarship, among other things. From the post: The NEHâs Division of Preservation … Continue reading
Scott Ginsburg: How to Make Loyalty Vanish
Consulting guru Scott Ginsburg often comes up with compelling lists of how to do things right or wrong, and his list on how to make loyalty vanish made me think of traditional publishers, and their disconnection with their customers, and … Continue reading
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NPR Coverage of the Conyers Bill's Threat to Open Access
The NPR storyline reads: Publicly funded research doesn’t seem so public when the public has to pay to read the results in a journal. A proposed law would help publishing companies preserve their business models, but it would limit public … Continue reading
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Federal Photos Not in Public Domain?
Knowing that some of President Obama’s appointments to the Justice Department are anything but friendly to the open web, and seeing how a member of his party John Conyers, has relentlessly supported traditional publishers over Open Access publishers, I was … Continue reading