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

No. 39, May 15, 2010

Table of Contents

1. What’s New on the PSP and AAP Web Sites?
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 & AAP Web Sites?

On the PSP Web Site
Public Policy & Legislation: Questions about Journal Access
http://www.pspcentral.org/JournalFAQ.cfm

On the AAP Web Site
AAP Inaugurates Fall Books Preview at ALA Annual Conference
http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/Archicves/2010_May/FallBooksPreviewatALAAnnualConference.htm

2. PSP Education and Training Programs
Guest Speaker
PSP Journals Committee: Guest Speaker
The PSP Journals Committee welcomes guest speaker Sue Maniloff, Alliance Manager, Global Content, ProQuest, who will discuss Summon™ web-scale discovery service. The Summon™ service is a pioneer in providing instant searching of library collections – from books and videos to e-resources at the article level, integrated and accessible from a single search box.
Tuesday, May 25th
12:00 - 1:00 pm
AAP Offices
New York, NY

If you or a colleague would like to attend or call in to the above talk, please contact Sara Pinto at spinto@publishers.org.

Seminars

Register NOW!!!
Professional, Scholarly & Academic Books:
The Basic Boot Camp
Friday, May 21st
9:00am-5:00pm
AAP Offices
71 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
Course Information
Program
Registration Form

New Seminar: Just Added!
Usage Statistics and Publishers: Implementation and New Insights
Monday, September 20th
10:30am-3:30pm
CQ Press Offices
2300 N Street, NW
Washington, DC
Who should attend? Anyone involved in the publishing, marketing and sales of online journals, books and databases who is interested in quantitative measures of product performance, impact and status.
Course Information
Registration Fees

All details are posted on the PSP website www.pspcentral.org. For more information contact spinto@publishers.org.


3. Other Programs of Interest
IATUL: The Evolving World of e-Science: Impact and Implications for Science and Technology Libraries
June 20th – 24th
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul2010/

BISG and NISO: 4th Annual Standards Forum at ALA Annual Conference
The Changing Standards Landscape
June 25th
Washington, DC
http://www.bisg.org/events-0-511-bisg-niso-at-ala-annual-conference-2010.php

American Library Association
June 25th – 29th
Washington, DC
http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/

The Yale Publishing Course: Leadership Strategies in a Time of Transition
An intensive, week-long course for the next generation of leaders in book, magazine and online publishing.
July 18th – 23rd
Yale University
New Haven, CT
http://publishing-course.yale.edu

Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2010
June 29th - July 2nd
Orlando, FL
http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/IMSCI


4. New Job Postings

• The Catholic University of America invites applications for the position of Director of the Press (http://cuapress.cua.edu/). With an active list of some 600 titles, CUA Press supports the academic and ecclesial mission of the University through the publication of approximately 36 new titles a year in the areas of history (ecclesiastical and secular), language and literature, philosophy, political theory, and theology, and interdisciplinary works in early Christian studies and medieval studies. In addition, the Press publishes two peer-reviewed journals.

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 of Interest
ALPSP Seminar – Richard Padley speaks on The Future of Academic Publishing. For those who were unable to attend, or would like to listen in full again, you can listen to a recording of eBook readers and the Future of Other New Technologies and view the accompanying slides.
http://blogs.semantico.com/discovery-blog/2010/04/alpsp-seminar-richard-padley-speaks-on-the-future-of-academic-publishing/

The plenary sessions at the recent UKSG Conference. Topics ranged from research quality assessment to researcher behaviour, from the economics of scholarly information to issues surrounding rights and licensing. For more information . . .
http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?AC=4090&Pid=10&Zid=5364&issueno=219

Articles of Interest

Accessibility
Project puts 1M books online for blind, dyslexic
Associated Press – 5/7/10
Even as audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are blind or dyslexic is minuscule.|

Internet Archive Offers One Million Works for the Blind and Print-Impaired
Library Journal – 5/6/10
Similarly, vision-impaired readers remain one strong constituency for theGoogle Book Searchsettlement, given that many more books would become accessible.

Copyright & Intellectual Property
ASCAP, NBC, Others Back Viacom In Lawsuit Against YouTube
Mediapost.com (blog) – 5/11/10
Last month, a coalition of content owners and others including the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, NBC Universal and the Association of American Publishers weighed in on Viacom’s behalf in its copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube.

eBooks
Sony Considers Developing Tablet to Compete With Apple's IPad
BusinessWeek – 5/13/10
Sony Corp. is considering developing a tablet-style computer that would compete with Apple Inc.’s iPad, though it wants more evidence consumers will buy them. A company executive said, “We have been taking a deep look at developing a tablet for a number of years, not just because of Apple but because it creates some interesting opportunities.”

E-Readers Will Take Centerstage If Prices Drop, Yet Publishers Still Have Two Left Feet
The Scholarly Kitchen – 5/14/10
Kent Anderson writes . . . E-readers are poised to go mainstream, yet publishers continue to be wallflowers. Haven't we learned to dance at all during this last digital decade?

ANALYSIS - Japan book market meets resistance in digital shift
Reuters India – 5/6/10
"If we can't maintain paper book publishing, we are not going to cooperate," said Mitsuyoshi Hosojima, a director of the ElectricBook Publishers.

JapanesePublishersForm e-Book Association
Publishers Weekly – 5/7/10
Finally, 31 of Japan's leadingbook publishers, including behemoths such as Kodansha and Shinchosha, are sitting down for the first time to establish e-bookcontract terms and royalties for authors as well as unified standards for electronic data management.

Google to Launch Digital Books by Early Summer
Wall Street Journal – 5/4/10
GoogleInc. will begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company representative said Tuesday, jumping into battle that already involvesAmazon.comInc.,AppleInc. and Barnes & Noble Inc.

Apple Sells One Million iPads
eBookNewser – 5/4/10
Apple released astatementyesterday announcing that the company has sold one million iPads. That's a lot more eReaders – and do-everything-machines-out in the world.

Look to Production to Predict the Next Digital Breakthrough — Editorial Offices
Scholarly Kitchen – 5/4/10
Is editorial knowledge generation the last "production shop" available for digital improvement?

Google
GoogleBook Accord Violates Treaties, Opponent Says
BusinessWeek – 5/1010
The $125 million settlement that would allow Google Inc. to create the world’s biggest digital-book library breaks international laws and treaties, according to a memo written by an opponent of the deal, Cynthia Arato, a lawyer representing authors in New Zealand, Italy, Austria and other countries.

Google Books settlement would violate international law, group argues
The Hill (blog) – 5/10/10
A group opposed to Google's plan to put book excerpts online is warning the action could lead to an international tribunal.

Revised Summary of Google Settlement Objections Issued
Publishers Weekly – 5/7/10
New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann and his students, have updated and posted a revised document that categorizes and summarizes the objections to the Google Settlement, and the plaintiff’s responses to those objections. The 55-page report, an excellent resource for anyone researching the settlement and its pressure points, breaks the objections down into 11 categories.

Bowker Will Provide ISBN Numbers for Google Editions
mediabistro.com (blog) – 5/5/10
With this new deal, Google will now provide ISBN numbers to Google Editions books "when book publishershave not assigned their own unique ISBNs.

What the trade wants from the new government (when it forms)
The Bookseller – 5/7/10
TheGoogleBookSettlementdecision has yet to be announced in the US but once a decision has been reached, the new UK government must be ready to deal with any consequences.

Google wins copyright violation cases in Europe and US
Knowledgespeak – 5/4/10
Internet search services provider Google, Inc. has reportedly won a legal victory in Germany on whether image search and showing thumbnails is tantamount to copyright law violation.

Higher Education
Blackboard's Ambassador
Inside Higher Ed – 5/10/10
The culture of openness in academe, which has given rise to open courses, open repositories and open-access journals, has probably given open-source source learning-management systems such as Moodle and Sakai a boost, though those systems still own a relatively tiny share of the market.

Professors and Social Media
Inside Higher Ed – 5/4/10
A new study reveals that nearly all faculty members use social media – and most use it to teach.

Net Neutrality
Lawmaker Challenges Broadband Providers onNet Neutrality
PC World – 5/14/10
With enforcement ofnet neutralityrules a major driver for Genachowski's reclassification plan, broadband providers instead could work with thewith the subcommittee to craft a net neutrality law.

Net NeutralityDebate Intensifies
InformationWeek Government – 5/13/10
Indeed, the whole debate surrounding the future of broadband andnet neutralityis being taken over by bombast as all sides in the issue maintain their wayis the best way to create jobs and help the economy.

Another Side ofNet Neutrality
eWeek – 5/10/10
Net neutralitysounds good on paper, but is all traffic really created equal? Perhaps, and perhaps not, as PJ Connolly of eWEEK Labs points out.

Where Does Elena Kagan Stand onNet Neutrality?
PC Magazine – 5/10/10
Given the growing public (and corporate) concern on the topic of net neutrality, it's possible that it will get some face time with the High Court in the coming years. So, what precedent, if any, can find on the topic in Kagan's writings?

Proponents ofnet neutralityhad better think again
Financial Times (subscription) – 5/7/10
Sir Neil Berkett of Virgin Media may indeed have unleashed fury two years ago when dismissingnet neutralityas “a load of bollocks,” but wisely the European Union followed suit – albeit in more elegant wording - by deciding against substantially regulating for net neutrality in December 2009.

What the `net neutrality' debate means
The Associated Press – 5/7/10
Net neutrality, as it's known, is the idea that the Internet should be like roads and highways — generally open to all traffic.

FCC's GOP: New Broadband Rules Would Ruin FCC Credibility
Huffington Post (blog) – 5/7/10
The idea that some here have thatnet neutralitymeans censorship is nonsense. Where did you get this idea? From Faux News?

Net neutrality
Financial Times (subscription) – 5/4/10
The most contentious regulatory issue you’ve never heard of is heading to Europe.The European Commission is about to begin a consultation on “net neutrality”, the seemingly benign idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally.

At a Crossroads onNet Neutrality
Wall Street Journal (blog) – 5/3/10
FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski swept into his job pledging to protect “net neutrality,” or rules ensuring broadband-Internet providers don'tgive preferential treatment to some Web traffic. Now he is at a crossroads.

Obama FCC Expected to AbandonNet Neutrality; Universal Internet
Huffington Post (blog) – 5/3/10
On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the Obama Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to abandon it pledge to protectNet Neutrality.

FCC Chairman Genachowski expected to leave broadband services deregulated
Washington Post – 5/3/10
The ruling cast doubt over the FCC's ability to create a "net neutrality" rule that would force Internet service providers to treat all services and applications on the Web equally.

Open Access
Universities, Congress push Open Access Research law
Ars Technica – 5/5/10
Now, a consortium of US research institutions is putting its weight behind an effort to turn the potentialOSTPpolicy into law.

Industry Sponsorship of Open Access Articles
Scholarly Kitchen – 5/3/10
The willingness of industry to sponsor open access articles may bias your access to reliable health information.

Scientific & Scholarly Publishing
Ethics experts call for scientific and ethical review to ensure integrity of research process
Knowledgespeak – 5/14/10
US-based journal Science has published a paper in which experts have cautioned that important ethical issues in the testing of new therapies like stem cells may not be receiving the attention they deserve.

Washington, We Have a Problem | Peer to Peer Review
Library Journal – 5/6/10
Barbara Fister notes that some of the members of the PSP Division of the AAP have sent a letter to a letter to Congress protesting the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which can be boiled down to “we’ll make it free if we feel like it . . . sometimes we feel like it. Leave us alone.”

Publisher seeks patent
Nature.com – 5/7/10
A scientist in Switzerland is seeking to patent a system for peer reviewing and publishing scientific papers online, Nature has learned.

SMU Suspends Its University Press
Inside Higher Ed – 5/7/10
Supporters of publishing arm say it was given no warning or chance to make its case.

General Interest
ACS webinar to focus on scientific careers in publishing
Knowledgespeak – 5/7/10
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is inviting news media and others interested in the chemical sciences to join the next in a series of ACS Webinars, focusing on scientific careers in publishing.

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PSP Contributing Staff:

Sara Pinto, Director

Kate Kolendo, Project Manager

John Tagler, Executive Director