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A periodic alerting service leading you to information relevant to the professional and scholarly publishing industry
Table of Contents
1. What’s New on the PSP Web Site
2. PSP Education and Training Programs
3. Other Programs of Interest
4. New Job Postings
5. Bulletin Board: People and Topics of Interest
6. Suggested Reading
1. What’s New on the PSP Web Site
Information on our exhibitor program and sponsorship opportunities for the PSP 2009 Annual Conference can now be found on the PSP website – www.pspcentral.org
2. PSP Education and Training Programs
The Basic Books Boot Camp
Friday, November 14, 2008
McGraw-Hill Offices
One Prudential Plaza
130 E. Randolph Street, Suite 700
Chicago, IL 60601
If you have less than three years’ experience with professional, scholarly, and academic book publishing this course will provide an overview of the industry. Or, if you have spent most of your career working in one aspect of PSP publishing and what to learn about other PSP job functions, you should attend.
Seminar Information: http://www.publishers.org/main/Conferences/BooksBootCampInformation.htm
Registration Form: http://www.publishers.org/main/Conferences/documents/RegistrationForm_004.doc
Program: http://www.publishers.org/main/Conferences/BootCampProgram.htm
Citation Analysis & Evaluating Research Performance
The Impact Factor, h-index and beyond
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue (between 14th & 15th Streets)
New York, NY
The seminar will focus on the various metrics that are used in citation analysis and look at how the data derived in this process influence decisions throughout the research cycle. In today’s world where the competition for research funding is intense, with great demand for quick, relevant information, more and more people involved in research and scholarly communication are using bibliographic measurements – or bibliometrics -- to assess research quality and monitor research trends. Find out how the tools used in this field of study can play a strategic role in your work.
Seminar Information: http://publishers.org/main/Conferences/PSPCitationSeminarFlyer.htm
Registration Form: http://publishers.org/main/Conferences/documents/CitationRegForm.doc
Save the Date:
PSP 2009 Annual Conference
Focus on the User:
Localization, Customization, Personalization
February 4-6, 2009
Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
3. Other Programs of Interest
Frankfurt Book Fair
October 15-19, 2008
Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.book-fair.com/en/fbf/
Charleston Conference 2008
November 5-8, 2008
Charleston, SC
http://www.katina.info/conference/
4. New Job Postings
- McGraw-Hill Professionalhas anexciting opportunity for a SeniorEditor, based in New York City
- The American Institute of Physics (AIP), has an exciting career opportunity for a Vice President, Publishing, located in their Melville, New York Publishing Center
- Anesthesiology is seeking a Managing Editor for their Winston-Salem, NC offices
Visit http://www.pspcentral.org/index.cfm?left=job_openings&page=/home/jobs.htm to view these and other exciting career opportunities
5. Bulletin Board: People and Topics of Interest
Look for news about people in our next issue of PSP . . . . Links
6. Suggested Reading (Please note: some links may require passwords)
Innkeeper at the Roach Motel: Trapped by faculty apathy and library uncertainty, institutional repositories face a crossroads: adapt or die.
http://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/1793/22088/2/RoachMotel.pdf
SPARC asserts that the AAP opinion letter to NIH suggesting that the NIH Public Access Policy affects copyright issues including U.S. obligations under international copyright agreements is fundamentally flawed and mischaracterizes the relevant facts and law.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/nih/response_aap.shtml
PSP supports philanthropy efforts in Afghanistan: Docs on a mission
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2008/07/20/news/20080720_front_177734.txt
Learned Societies and Open Access: Surveys of the financial contribution of bioscience societies to UK universities and of researchers’ attitudes to Open Access and self-archiving
http://www.uklsc.org/journals/BSF_survey_report_July_2008_FINAL.pdf
The Center for Science in the Public Interest: A Common Standard for Conflict of Interest Disclosure
http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/20080711_a_common_standard_for_conflict_of_interest_disclosure__final_for_conference.pdf
Save on College Texts
Wall Street Journal
Filling a book bag with a course-load of college textbooks will weigh not only on a student's shoulders, but on his or her wallet. On average, college students shelled out $900 a semester for textbooks, according to a 2005 federal report.
Antipiracy Campaign Exasperates Colleges
The Chronicle of Higher Education – 08/11/2008
Talk to the chief information officer at just about any American university, and he will probably say that his institution has bent over backward to help the Recording Industry Association of America curb illegal file sharing on his campus.
SearchMedica.com Connects Medical Professionals With MEDLINE Abstracts
DBusinessNews.com – 08/12/2008
Hartford - DARIEN -- SearchMedica.com, the leading search engine for medical professionals, today announced the availability of PubMed's MEDLINE abstracts at SearchMedica.
Microsoft Rolls Out Publishing and Research Tools for Academics
Chronicle of Higher Education
Saying it wants to help scholars and publishers write, edit, and publish academic articles, this week Microsoft Corporation rolled out a set of new software tools to perform those tasks, as well as to navigate thorny copyright issues and find and share scholarly data.
Despite flaws, Kindle a $100m success for Amazon
ArsTechnica – 08/04/2008
Amazon's Kindle has enjoyed apparently robust popularity since it debuted last fall; the first run of the eBook reader sold out, even at the initial $399 price point, and Amazon had only limited inventory for some time.
FCC: Comcast Violated Internet Open-Access Guidelines
Broadcasting and Cable
The vote was 3-2 -- with FCC Republican chairman Kevin Martin joined by Democrats Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein -- to approve the decision.
Copyright Expert Predicts More Regulation for Colleges on File Sharing
The Chronicle of Higher Education – 07/31/2008
William Patry, Google’s senior copyright lawyer and a former lawyer for the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, has dissected the provision in the mammoth higher education bill regarding peer-to-peer file sharing on college campuses.
NIH "open access" policy causing publishing companies angst
Ars techinica
For several years, the National Institutes of Health has been encouraging researchers that produce publications through public funding to make those papers available through open access sites such as BioMed Central.
Higher-Education Bill Would Bring Benefits to DisabledStudents
Chronicle of Higher Education
Washington — Tucked inside the vast bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act that now awaits President Bush’s signature are several provisions designed to improve disabled students’ access to higher education.
Safari Books Online Opens New Telesales and Support Office in Tempe, Arizona
DiGiTAL50 – 08/13/2008
- Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the provider of on-demand digital libraries that increase the productivity of IT, creative and business professionals, today announced the launch of its telesales center located in Tempe, Arizona.
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PSP Contributing staff:
Sara Firestone, Director
Kate Kolendo, Project Manager
John Tagler, Executive Director