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A periodic alerting service leading you to information relevant to the professional and scholarly publishing industry

No. 3, September 12, 2008

 

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.  Suggested Reading


1.  What’s New on the PSP Web Site

Newly redesigned PSP web site, with a new look, new feel and expanded information www.pspcentral.org.  Check it out!

Important Breaking News

 

Highlights of the new PSP web site

 

 



2.  PSP Education and Training Programs

The PSP Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker, Sarah Williams
Friday, October 3, 2008
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue (between 14th & 15th Streets)
New York, NY
Ms. Williams, Manager, The Research Library, Merck & Co, Inc. , will discuss ‘The Importance of eBooks in a Corporate Environment,’ and how the availability of digital content has brought about significant changes in the way corporate libraries build collections and deliver information.  If you or a colleague would like to attend or call in to hear Ms. Williams contact Sara Firestone at sfirestone@publishers.org.  Seating is limited and on a first-come first-served basis.

The Basic Books Boot Camp
Friday, November 14, 2008
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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 want to learn about other PSP job functions, you should attend. 
Seminar Information: ttp://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 19, 2008
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
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


3.  Other Programs of Interest

NFAIS Humanities Roundtable VII – Building the Base for Authoritative Content:
Digital Resources in the Humanities
October 20, 2008
New York, NY
http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=52

Usage Statistics: New Developments & Practical Applications, organized by the NFAIS Committee on Usage Statistics
October 21, 2008
New York, NY
http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=53

Digital Library Federation Fall Forum
November 12 – 14, 2008
Providence, RI
http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2008/index.htm

SPARC, in Partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics
SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting
November 17-18, 2008
Baltimore, MD
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/


4.  New Job Postings

  • Cadmus Publisher Services, a Cenveo Company has openings for a Journal Production Manager and Copy Editors for its Columbia, MD office
  • IEEE is seeking a Product Development Manager, Online Services and a Project Manager, Periodicals for its Piscataway, NJ office
  • HighWire Press, Stanford University, has a job opening for a Publication Manager

Visit  http://www.pspcentral.org/jobOpenings/jobsOpenFrame.cfm to view these and other exciting career opportunities


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

Web Sites Worth Visiting

SPARC, the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day, an opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0828.shtml

Macquarie University council voted to endorse University Senate recommendations that research articles be deposited in the online repository ResearchOnline after their acceptance for publication.
http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au

Articles of Interest

Lehman optimistic on European professional publishers
Reuters – 09/10/08
Lehman Brothers said European professional publishers should outperform the wider media sector, should economic outlook continue to deteriorate, and upgraded Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier (ELSN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) (REL.L: Quote, Profile, Research).

NIH Public Access Policy To Face Copyright Challenge in Congress?
Library Journal – 09/05/2008
The of the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on what sources tell LJ is a legislative attempt to redress publishers' concerns that public access policies namely the recently enacted policy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)conflict with copyright and intellectual property laws.

NIH Update: PubMed Central Numbers Surge Dramatically in July
LJ Academic Newswire – 09/04/08
PubMed Central submissions are quickly approaching another milestone number, falling just one submission short of 4000 for the month of July. According to National Institutes of Health (NIH) statistics, monthly[??] submissions as of July 31 were 3,999, a significant 65 percent spike from the 2610 submissions in June. With the latest numbers yet to be assessed, it is too early to tell whether the major uptick in submissions in July is an anomaly, but the latest numbers make clear that since the official enactment of the NIH's mandatory public access policy in April, 2008, submissions are rising significantly—and rapidly.

Textbook Torrents vs The Publishers
P2P Net – 09/05/2008
The site is only one of many similar Web sites promising free books for download-making the owners of the sites some income from Web advertisements sold there.

The Importance and Limitations of Peer-Review
Science Based Medicine – 09/03/2008
Peer-review is a critical part of the functioning of the scientific community, of quality control, and the self corrective nature of science. But it is no panacea.

13:06Textbook Prices and Piracy

Students have always railed against the high price of textbooks, but today's students have something generations of others did not: file-sharing technology. As textbook prices continue to rise, more and more students are pirating textbooks online--and American publishers are worried. We discuss the future of textbooks and the issues at stake when copyright law is transported into the digital age.  Includes Ed McCoyd of AAP speaking about online piracy.

Video Piracy--Without The Piracy
Forbes.com – 09/08/2008
If the advent of streaming video and direct downloads hadn't already signaled the impending death of video disc sales, add another nail to the DVD distributor's coffin: a technology that lets anyone copy any DVD--and seems to be perfectly legal.

Textbook Sales Drop, and University Presses Search for Reasons Why
Chronicle of Higher Ed – 09/04/08
Textbook sales are headed downward at many university presses, and the negative trend has accelerated in the last couple of months. That's the word from press directors anxious about the decline but unsure what's causing it or what to do to stop it.

Small Book Publishers Offered New Technology
New York Times – 09/03/08
Hundreds of small, independent publishers will have easier access to digital book technology under a new service offered by Perseus Books Group, the result of agreements between it and more than a half-dozen technology companies, Perseus is expected to announce on Thursday.

E-Books & Electronic Publishing Drive Growth in the World Publishing Industry, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts
EMedia Wire – 09/02/2008
Key factors wielding an influence on the world publishing market include favorable economic conditions, lifestyle trends, population growth, purchasing power, ethnic diversity and age composition, education standards, and foreign trade . . . commercial publishers, the publishing industry also comprises of non-profit publishers, university presses, and scholarly associations. In an...

Open Access in Canada College & Research Libraries News article
GenoMicron Blog – 08/29/2008
Up to date, online today at College and Research Libraries News 69:8. Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller: Open access and evolving scholarly communication . . . An overview of library advocacy and commitment, institutional repositories, and publishing in Canada Abstract. The open access movement in Canada is very active in many areas. 


National Library of Medicine Accepts First Online Video Journal for Indexing in MEDLINE and PubMed
PR.com – 08/29/2008
National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has accepted Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) for indexing in the official repositories of the scientific literature MEDLINE and PubMed.  JoVE is a new type of scientific journal that publishes online video-demonstrations of biological experiments as performed...

Electronic Scholarly Publishing and Open Access
Journal of Information Science – 08/01/08
A review of recent developments in electronic publishing, with a focus on Open Access (OA), describes the two main types of OA (i.e., the ‘gold’ OA journal route and the ‘green’ repository route.


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PSP Contributing Staff:

Sara Firestone, Director

Kate Kolendo, Project Manager

John Tagler, Executive Director