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No. 69, August 31, 2011

Table of Contents
1. What’s New on the AAP Website?
2. PSP Education and Training Programs
3. Other Programs of Interest
4. New Job Postings
5. Suggested Reading

1. What’s New on the AAP Website?
Watch http://www.publishers.org/press/ for the latest news.

2. PSP Education and Training Programs

Guest Speaker
The PSP Books Committee has invited guest speaker Patricia Payton, Senior Director of Publisher Relations and Content Development for Bowker to their next meeting on Friday, September 9th from 12:30-1:30 PM at the AAP/NY offices. Bowker offers a free program that will allow for improved discoverability of all frontlist and backlist titles. They accept digital editions and print only titles, where a PDF is available. This data will then be indexed and keywords stored behind the scenes for retrieval by users. Without making this content viewable, Bowker shows the most relevant terms within the work for users and ranks importance of the word to the work. In this talk the speaker will share some reference findings on the extent of metadata created by our machine indexing versus what publishers are sending in ONIX.

If you or a colleague would like to attend this talk in person, or via webinar, please email spinto@publishers.org.

Programs:
Space is limited – a few slots remain!
PSP Journals Reboot:
Problem Solving in an Evolving Journals Landscape
(formerly PSP Journals Boot Camp)
September 20th - 22nd
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Offices
2000 Florida Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
PSP Journals Reboot is appropriate for junior to mid level staff with an interest in broadening their knowledge of journal publishing beyond their current job function in all job categories, including acquisitions, finance, production, circulation, sales, and marketing. Attendance is limited, as experience has shown that for this intensive course the best learning environment is achieved with fewer participants to ensure a more interactive, hands-on experience.
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Fall 2011 Seminar Series on Selected Topics in Electronic Publishing
Tuesday, September 27th – 12:00-1:30 PM
Tuesday, October 25th – 12:00-1:30 PM
Tuesday, November 15th – 12:00-1:30 PM
Tuesday, December 13th – 12:00-1:30 PM
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
Due to popular demand the PSP Electronic Information Committee (EIC) is holding it's fifth series of the Seminar Series on Selected Topics in Electronic Publishing with new topics and new speakers. The programs are targeted to staff new to electronic publishing at member organizations and address the transition underway from print to the electronic side of scholarly and professional publishing. In-person spaces are limited to 18 but webinar spaces are unlimited.
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Social Media and Networking in PSP 2.0
Wednesday, October 19th
12:00-3:00 PM
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
Social Media and Networking in PSP 2.0 was developed in response to the overwhelming positive feedback received from Social Media and Networking in PSP 1.0. This seminar takes things a bit further with presentations to illustrate how technology and social media are actively shaping our behavior and becoming an integral part of our daily lives. While the seminar is still designed to provide a high-level view at how social media and social networking are used in today’s publishing environment, and how you might harness it to enhance your offerings, brace yourself for what the future can potentially offer.
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Professional, Scholarly & Academic Books:
The Basic Boot Camp
Thursday, October 20th
9:00am-5:00pm
Wolters Kluwer Offices
Two Commerce Square
2001 Market Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers presents a unique opportunity to learn about book publishing. If you have less than three years’ experience in professional, scholarly, and academic publishing—or are considering a career change—this workshop will provide an indispensable overview of the industry.
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Save The Date!
PSP 2012 Annual Conference
Prospering with Digital: Making Investments Pay
February 1-3, 2012
Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
PSP 2012 Annual Conference Program
Online Registration Form
Fax/Mail Registration Form
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For more information on all of these seminars, please visit www.pspcentral.org
All details are posted on the PSP website www.pspcentral.org. For more information contact: spinto@publishers.org.

3. Other Programs of Interest

Introducing Bookstats (Webinar)
A live tour of the most comprehensive statistical survey of the modern U.S. publishing industry
September 7th – 1:00 PM EDT (60 minutes)
http://www.bisg.org/events-0-741-live-webcastintroducing-bookstats.php

Google+ - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Huge! (NFAIS Webinar)
September 9th – 11:00 AM EDT (90 minutes)
http://www.nfais.org/page/352-googleplus-webinar-sept-9-2011

Maximizing the Mobile Opportunity for Librarians (Webinar)
Sponsored by: Boopsie Inc, TechLogic and Library Journal
September 14th – 1:00 PM EDT (60 minutes)
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=344795&sessionid=1&key=085547DFA6EA8769F2D0F264E94EA968&partnerref=ljnewslettertechlogic091411&sourcepage=register

Successful strategies for Mobile application development(NFAIS Webinar)
September 23rd – 11:00 AM EDT (90 minutes)
http://www.nfais.org/page/354-mobile-app-development-sept-23-2011

International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
September 26th – 28th
Berlin, Germany
http://www.tpdl2011.org/

Web Scale Information Discovery: The Opportunity, the Reality, the Future (NFAIS)
September 30th
Philadelphia
http://www.nfais.org/page/353-web-scale-info-discovery-sept-30-2011

Patron-Driven Acquisition: Radically Rethinking the Collection A
ALA Webinar with Rick Anderson, Associate Director for Scholarly Resources and Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Librar
October 5th: 2:30-4:00 PM, Eastern time
October 26th: 2:30 – 4:00 PM, Eastern time
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3498&zbrandid=4634&zidType=CH&zid=7641915&zsubscriberId=1026821282&zbdom=http://ala-publishing.informz.net

STM Annual Frankfurt Conference
October 11th
Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.stm-assoc.org/event.php?event_id=67

Frankfurt Book Fair
October 12th – 16th
Frankfurt, Germany
http://ww2.buchmesse.de/de.html

4. New Job Postings

• APA Books seeks a Video Media Director to direct the Video Media program of APA Books. This role includes identifying revenue-generating products through knowledge of scholarly merit, political exigies, analysis of sales patterns, evaluation of existing publications, and observation of emerging trends in psychology and video publishing. The director will make final recommendations to Senior Director and Publisher; identify, makes contacts with, and maintain on-going relationships with guest experts in video projects, video production vendors, U.S. and international publishing executives, and leaders in the fields of psychology, video media publishing, and library science with the goal of developing potential partnerships and enlisting desired contacts in new contractual agreements; supervise the APA Video Media Supervisor and any project-specific or ongoing contractors working immediately with the director; represent the APA Video Media program of APA Books to the APA membership, governance, and central-office staff, as well as potential guest experts, co-publishing partners, U.S. and international publishing executives and CEOs, library resource professionals, and other scholarly associations.
• The American Chemical Society is seeking a Managing Editor, ACS Synthetic Biology. The Managing Editor of the publication is responsible for the day-to-day management of the journals ACS Synthetic Biology and ensures that the publications are produced on time, on budget, and with appropriate levels of quality. S/he is responsible assisting the Editors and ACS Publications with refining and implementing the strategic goals for the journal to ensure its continued growth and success and monitoring the strategic progress of the journal against competitors. The Managing Editor will assist in developing publishing strategies and editorial initiatives to lead ACS Synthetic Biology to flagship positions in their disciplines. The Managing Editor will also work with the Editors in planning, recruiting and editing the editorial content commissioned for the publication to accompany its peer-reviewed content. S/he works with ACS staff from Production & Manufacturing, Editorial Office Operations, Web Innovation, and Sales & Marketing to implement strategic initiatives for the journal. S/he also represents the journal to the scientific community through laboratory visits and international conferences. The incumbent reports to the Acquisitions Editor, Editorial Development.
• The American Chemical Society is seeking a Managing Editor for The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. The Managing Editor of the publication is responsible for the day-to-day management of the journals The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry and ensures that the publications are produced on time, on budget, and with appropriate levels of quality. S/he is responsible assisting the Editors and ACS Publications with refining and implementing the strategic goals for the journal to ensure its continued growth and success and monitoring the strategic progress of the journal against competitors. The Managing Editor will assist in developing publishing strategies and editorial initiatives to lead The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry to flagship positions in their disciplines. The Managing Editor will also work with the Editors in planning, recruiting and editing the editorial content commissioned for the publication to accompany its peer-reviewed content. S/he works with ACS staff from Production & Manufacturing, Editorial Office Operations, Web Innovation, and Sales & Marketing to implement strategic initiatives for the journal. S/he also represents the journal to the scientific community through laboratory visits and international conferences. The incumbent reports to the Assistant Director, Editorial Development.
• The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is seeking a Marketing Manager to manager all marketing efforts to promote various products and services into the institutional/ library market/channel. Marketing Manager will work closely with sales team and publishers to develop marketing and sales strategies and programs for our products; design marketing efforts to increase revenue, drive sales, and drive usage through retention/renewals, upsell, cross sell, development of new customers and new products, regularly review and analyze AIP subscriptions/sales/usage data as applicable, determine trends, and provide detailed reports, analyses, and recommendations for management review; and will participate in exhibit strategy, especially as it pertains to library designated products, services, and channels.
• The American Psychological Association (APA) is seeking a Sales Account Manager to be directly responsible for maintaining existing sales of and generating new sales for all APA database and electronic products to the institutional market within assigned territory in US and Canada in order to achieve target sales revenue objectives in that territory. Responsibility includes achieving sales goals for customer accounts on both APA PsycNET and third-party vendor platforms. In addition to selling APA products, the Sales Account Manager is responsible for ensuring that customers within assigned territory are not only billed but that their payments, as well as payments to APA from third-party vendors for sales in their territory, are collected.

For full details, please visit http://www.pspcentral.org/jobOpenings/jobsOpenFrame.cfm to view these and other exciting career opportunities. To post a position please contact spinto@publishers.org.

5. Suggested Reading
(Please note: some links may require passwords)

Web Sites of Interest

Connecting people through open content, JISC Report
In open educational resources and open access research, there is a strong emphasis about how they can support the exchange of content and understanding between people, with a focus on academic-to-academic, teacher-to-learner, and sometimes learner-to-learner.
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/08/23/connecting-people-content/

Single Search: The Quest for the Holy Grail
This report summarizes the discussions from an OCLC Research Library Partnership working group of nine single search implementers and highlights the emerging practices in providing single search access to library, archive and museum collections.
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-17r.htm

Articles of Interest

Copyright & Intellectual Property

Move By Universities Creates New Problem For Google Books Deal
paidContent.org – 8/30/11
As authors and publishers wait to learn the final fate of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books settlement, a group of universities has quietly launched a major initiative that could reshape the future ofcopyrightlaw. As part of its quest to digitize the world’s books, Google has scanned millions of titles.

With the Freelance Settlement Rejected, What's Next?
Publishers Weekly – 8/29/11
"The expense would be absurd—it would take months, or, more likely, years to pull off," observed New York Law School'sJames Grimmelmann, "and I still can't imagine those negotiations succeeding."

Fair Use Face-Off, Canadian Edition
Inside Higher Ed – 8/29/11
As professors and librarians in the United States await a judge’s ruling ona copyright lawsuit by publishers against Georgia State University over its e-reserves practices, a similarly themed battle in Canada has seen a number of high-profile research universities walk out on licensing agreements with that country’s major copyright clearinghouse.

Protecting Access to Information
Washington Post – 8/29/11
The Aug. 24 editorial “Safeguarding creativity” ignored the most glaring problems with the Protect IP Act. The bill’s proposal to order Internet Service Providersto redirect traffic creates flaws for hackers to exploit and inconsistencies in the technical workings of the Internet, risking not only its security but also its ability to function properly.

Top 10 Largest File-Sharing Sites
TorrentFreak – 8/27/11
BitTorrent is no longer the dominant player when it comes to file-sharing on the Internet. The five largest English language websites dedicated to swapping files are all related to centralized file-hosting services, also known as cyberlockers. The Pirate Bay and Torrentz are the only BitTorrent sites that managed to secure a spot in the top 10.

Bill would help combat copyright offenders on the Internet
Washington Post – 8/23/11
TheProtect IP (Intellectual Property) Act, introduced by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, would give the government and copyright- and trademark-holders a means to combat this problem.

Digital music locker providers do not infringecopyright, US court rules
The Guardian – 8/23/11
In a summary judgment at a district court in Manhattan, Judge William Pauley ruled that the music website MP3Tunes.com was protected under US law because its users, not the website, were responsible for uploading the tracks and potentially infringing copyright.

New Site Brazenly Trades Pirated E-Textbooks
Chronicle of Higher Ed – 8/23/11
Textbook pirates have struck again. Nearly three years after publishersshut down a large Web sitedevoted to illegally trading e-textbooks, a copycat site, LibraryPirate, has sprung up – with its leaders arguing that it is operating overseas in a way that will be more difficult to stop.

USCopyrightLaw Basics for Educators
IPWatchdog.com – 8/22/11
In some cases reference to this article together with reference to United StatesCopyright Office Circular 21 may provide the guidance that is necessary. in an educational context, because the creator owns “exclusive rights,” but “fair use” grants permission to anyone, particular educators, to use at least portions of copyrighted works.

Illegal downloading and media investment
The Economist – 8/20/11
Since 2000, when the file-sharing service Napster first became popular,digital piracyhas dogged the media industry. Over time piracy has become more diverse and sophisticated. File-sharing rates vary hugely from country to country—with consequences for local media industries and global cultural trade.

Balancing Copyright and Library Rights in a Digital Age
American Libraries – 8/17/11
Copyright was created to protect the rights of literary and creative artists, said Trevor C. Clarke of the World Intellectual Property Organization at the recent IFLA conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Court Rules First Sale Doctrine Only Applies to Works Manufactured in U.S.
Library Journal – 8/17/11
A U.S. appeals court recently affirmed a lower court ruling on that held the first sale doctrine applies only to works manufactured in the United States, a decision that has the potential to undermine libraries' ability to lend foreign printed books.

Ebook Services Enters E-Galley Arena with Digital Comps
PW – 8/22/11
Priscilla Treadwell, Princeton University Press’ digital sales director, said: “We’ve been looking for a user-friendly, elegant solution for providing electronic comp copies to professors and book reviewers, and are delighted to have found it in this excellent service from Ebooks Corporation.”

Western Europe Sees Huge Shift Toward E-Books
paidContent.org – 8/19/11
Europe has lagged behind the U.S. in widespread adoption of e-books, but a new report suggests that they are finally taking off. The e-book market in Western Europe grew by 400 percent in 2010, a new report finds.

Copyright battles break out in North America
Times Higher Education – 8/18/11
Disputes in Canada and the US are fuelling close scrutiny of the use of copyrighted material, with the outcomes threatening to increase the burden on academics.

E-Books

With Digital Up 140% at B&N, Sales Rise, Loss Falls
Publishers Weekly – 8/30/11
Gains at Barnes & Noble.com offset declines at B&N’s retail and trade stores in the first quarter ended July 30, resulting in a 2% increase in total revenue, to $1.42 billion. B&N said that while traditional physical book sales declined during the quarter, the stores posted large increases in sales of the Nook product line and the toys & games segment.

Hachette Taking a Close Look at Risks and Benefits of Library E-book Lending
Library Journal – 8/23/11
Hachette Book Group has been doing a lot of legwork in recent months as part of an effort to decide whether it should increase its exposure to the library ebook market, reversing a previous decision that has kept Hachette's frontlist ebook titles out of library hands since July 2010.

E-books now eligible for National Book Awards
MediaBistro – 8/11/11
Thanks to tablets and e-Readers, the definition of a book is expanding as evidenced in the National Book Foundation announcement that it will accept interactive eBooks for submission to the National Book Awards this year.

Google

In France, Publisher and Google Reach Deal
New York Times – 8/26/11
A second French publisher has reached a deal on digital books withGoogleto settle a copyright lawsuit in exchange for control over how its out-of-print, copyright-protected works are scanned and sold.

Second Circuit Rejects "Freelance" Settlement
Publishers Weekly – 8/18/11
A two-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday rejected an $18 million settlement in the long-running class action suit filed by freelance writers following the landmark Tasini case, and in the process have likelykilled the chances of a revised Google settlement.

Court Rejects Publishers’ Deal With Writers
New York Times – 8/17/11
A federal appeals court on Wednesday vacated a multimillion-dollar settlement between freelance writers and some of the country’s largest publishers, saying the deal undercompensated most of the writers involved.

Higher Education

Online Venture Energizes Vulnerable College
Chronicle of Higher Education – 8/28/11
With 7,000 online students, the university has grown into the second-largest online education provider in college-saturated New England, aiming to blow the University of Massachusetts out of the top spot.

Duke to expand e-books
News & Observer – 8/29/11
This fall Duke will be among the nation's first institutions to offer free online access to books that are still protected by copyright and not in the public domain. Those books, published between 1923 and 1963, will be offered to the public because the owners of the copyrights can't be contacted - either the publishers went out of business or the authors are deceased.

The Secondary Cost of Digital
Inside Higher Ed – 8/26/11
The idea that higher education is creeping toward an all-digital future has turned textbook season into aspectator sport. Will this be the year e-textbooks make their move?

iPad, I Saw, I Waited: The State of E-Textbooks
Wired – 8/26/11
If you’re looking for a textbook example of technology obstruction by the media industry, look no further than e-textbooks.

Cutting Back in Academia
The Scientist – 8/23/11
The National Academy of Sciences will propose a plan for cutting back costs at state universities. Upon the request of Congress, a NAS panel is drafting a plan to help state universities deal with continuing budget cuts.

What Students Don't Know
Inside Higher Ed – 8/22/11
A two-year anthropological study of student research habits, entitled the ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) project, shows that students are in dire need of help from librarians, but are loath to ask for it.

Enrollment Plunges at For-Profit Colleges
Chronicle of Higher Ed – 8/16/11
Enrollment at many for-profit colleges has fallen sharply in recent months, a reflection of a weak economy and increased scrutiny of the sector.

Cheapism: The best sites to buy textbooks
Lifeinc on TODAY – 8/16/11
While back-to-school often means an expensive trip to the campus bookstore for college students, savvy students can save money by shopping online at specialized college textbook sites, which claim to offer savings of up to 90 percent.

College Students Bypassing Expensive Textbooks
The Princeton Review – 8/12/11
According to a recent survey, 7 in 10 college students have opted not to buy at least one assigned textbook due to cost concerns, even though they acknowledged that buying their assigned textbooks enabled them to get better grades.

Libraries

Quantifying the Value of Higher Education | From the Bell Tower
Library Journal – 8/25/11
Getting past the myth that libraries equal books and nothing but books is a serious challenge. Before we can get anyone to recognize the value of academic libraries and librarians, it appears we first need to establish exactly what it is we do—besides warehouse books.

Charles Lowry to Retire as Head of ARL in December 2012
Library Journal – 8/24/11
Charles B. Lowry will retire as Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) at the end of December 2012, according to a press release from ARL.

IFLA e-books discussion presses many biblio-buttons
American Libraries – 8/24/11
Kenneth Crews of Columbia University’s Copyright Advisory Office moderating a panel of publishing experts who made some surprising predictions about the future of publishing and how libraries fit into thepicture.

Report Shows Increased Need for Libraries on Campus
Library Journal – 8/24/11
The need for libraries on college and university campuses has increased, according to a new study released by the American Library Association's Office for Research and Statistics.

Ten-year study shows increased need for academic libraries
American Libraries – 8/23/11
In "Trends in Academic Libraries, 1998 to 2008," researcher Denise M. Davis analyzes data from the Academic Library Survey administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The report provides an informative look at how the academic libraries continue to provide valuable resources to their communities.

U.K. libraries reject raw deal on e-journals
Times Higher Education – 8/19/11
Major research libraries have threatened the two largest journal publishers that they will not renew their Big Deals with them if they do not make significant, real-terms price reductions.

Publisher–Librarian Dialog | Editorial
Library Journal – 8/15/11
Now more than ever there is reason for publishers to seek out libraries, to ally with them in support of books and reading, despite their disparate needs – and wants – regarding e-book models.

Open Access & Institutional Repositories

“Open Access Institutional Archives: A Quantitative Study (2006-2010)”
DigitalKoans – 8/24/11
Bhaskar Mukherjee and Mohammad Nazim have published "Open Access Institutional Archives: A Quantitative Study (2006-2010)" in theDESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology.

Professional & Scholarly Publishing

Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist
The Guardian – 8/29/11
Academic publishers charge vast fees to accessresearch paid for by us. Down with the knowledge monopoly racketeers.

Ebrary Announces New University Press Publishing Partners
Library Journal – 8/24/11
Ebrary recently announced that it has signed deals with 12 new university press publishing partners.

How to get ahead in academic publishing: Q&A best bits
The Guardian (blog) – 8/23/11
Some publishing experiments show that digital innovation actually increases print sales of a book. Publisherslook favourably on blogging as it clearly demonstrates that a scholar is actively engaging with a research community.

Project Muse Beta Tests New Platform Integrating E-books WithJournals
InfoToday.com – 8/18/11
Icons identify the availability status of content to individual users, whether full text, a free sample oropen access, or restricted. Dean Smith, director of Project Muse, indicated that they were also considering the addition of public domain items.

Open Science In Science 2.0 - Who Does It?
Science 2.0 – 8/17/11
In many aspects of science, sharing data is counter-productive to competition. Some results were expected; NIH-funded people shared results but Congressional law mandates access to NIH-funded studies and people who had shared data before, or used open access/pay-to-publishjournals(peer reviewed or not) were more likely to share.

White House on continuation of science funding
Talking Points Memo – 8/12/11
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently convened a meeting with leaders of the scientific research and development community to reassure them that the Obama administration is committed to sustaining its research and education funding commitments to keep the U.S. competitive.

Does popularity make it good? How do academics feel about reactions to their work?
Chronicle of Higher Education – 8/10/11
Academics labor over a book or article. Get it published. What happens next? On to the next idea - the next project. But is there an emotional attachment and do they care what the reaction is?

Faculty Fallout
The Scientist – 8/1/11
Administrators have taken over US universities, and they’re steering institutions of higher learning away from the goal of serving as beacons of knowledge. Tto administrators, the faculty’s research and teaching activities are, first and foremost, means of generating revenues, not ends in themselves.

Capsule Reviews
The Scientist – 8/1/11
Science Books Worth Reading: First Life, Radioactivity, Brain Bugs, Life of Earth

General Interest

In a Race to Out-Rave, 5-Star Web Reviews Go for $5
The New York Times – 8/19/11
As online retailers increasingly depend on reviews as a sales tool, an industry of fibbers and promoters has sprung up to buy and sell raves for a pittance. Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm to distinguish fake from real, which worked about 90 percent of the time.

As PCs Wane, Companies Look to Tablets
The New York Times – 8/17/11
Although the world is dependent on personal computers, making them has not been a great business for most American companies for almost a decade. Tablets, in contrast, are flying off store shelves, with global sales expected to more than double this year to 24.1 million, according to Forrester Research.

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PSP Contributing Staff:

Sara Pinto, Director
Katie Balaski, Interim Administrator
Kate Kolendo, Project Manager
John Tagler, Executive Director