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A periodic alerting service leading you to information relevant to the professional and scholarly publishing industry
No. 6, November 3, 2008
Table of Contents
1. What’s New on the PSP & 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
New on the PSP & AAP Web Sites
Authors, Publishers, and Google Reach Landmark Settlement
Copyright Accord Would Make Millions More Books Available Online.
The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google today announced a groundbreaking settlement agreement on behalf of a broad class of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search. http://www.publishers.org/main/Copyright/CopyKey/copyKey_01_03.htm
2. PSP Education and Training Programs
The PSP Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker, Anne Orens
Thursday, November 20, 2008
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue (between 14th & 15th Streets)
New York, NY
Ms. Orens, Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer at Tizra will discuss the latest players, the platforms and the devices in the digital book landscape. If you or a colleague would like to attend or call in to hear Ms. Orens contact Sara Pinto at spinto@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: 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 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
Focus on the User: Localization, Customization, Personalization
PSP 2009 Annual Conference
February 4-6, 2009
Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
Seminar Information: http://www.pspcentral.org/documents/PSPAnnualConferenceInformation.doc
Registration Form: http://www.pspcentral.org/documents/RegistrationForm.doc
3. Other Programs of Interest
Aptara Partners with Mark Logic and Really Strategies for upcoming Perspectives Workshop – XML: Content Authoring, Management and Dissemination
November 12, 2008, 1:30 – 4:30 PM
Falls Church, VA (on the FASEB campus)
http://www.techbooks.com/images/pdf/Aptara%20Press%20Release%20Perspectives%20Workshop%20_FINAL_.pdf
NFAIS 2009 Annual Conference, Barbarians at the Gate? The Impact of Digital Natives and Emerging Technologies on the Future of Information Services
February 22 – 24, 2009
Philadelphia, PA.
http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=51)
4. New Job Postings
- The Public Library of Science (PLoS), an online open-access publisher of scientific and medical journals, is seeking an Editorial Operations Manager for their San Francisco office.
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
Scholarly Publishing Practice, Third Survey 2008: Academic journal publishers’ policies and practices in online publishing by John Cox and Laura Cox. The third in a series of ALPSP surveys undertaken to establish current scholarly publishing practices and designed to track changes in policy and practice since 2000. http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=1&did=47&aid=27749&st=&oaid=-1
Activities, costs and funding flows in scholarly communications. A Report by the Research Information Network, UK.
http://www/rin/ac.uk/costs-funding-flows
The University of Michigan Library has decided to adopt Creative Common Attribution-Non-Commercial licenses for all works created by the Library for which the Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyrights.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/creativecommons/
SPARC and PLoS, the organizers of the first Open Access Day with Students for FreeCulture, released a series of one-minute videos capturing why teachers, patient advocates, librarians, students, research funders, and physician scientists are committed to Open Access.
http://www.vimeo.com/oaday08
Blind Readers Seek Guarantee Of Access Under EU Copyright Law, by David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - Exceptions to European Union copyright rules designed to allow blind people access to publications should be made legally binding, according to disability rights organisations. In July, the European Commission opened a public consultation exercise on whether a central piece of EU law on intellectual property needs to be updated to take account of technological advances.
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1290
Articles of Interest
Google's New Monopoly?
Washington Post – 11/03/2008
Last week, Google settled a controversial copyright case by agreeing to pay tens of millions in licensing fees to authors and publishers, with more to come.
The Incredible Vanishing Book
Inside Higher Ed – 11/03/2008
We don’t know how soon it will happen, but it is happening and it will be consummated soon. The commodity of the book, as we have known it for the last few decades, is vanishing and being replaced by new electronic media.
Harvard Slams Google Settlement; Others React with Caution
PW – 10/30/08
If a major theme has emerged among the reactions to Google’s sweeping $125 million settlement with publishers and authors over its library scan plan, it is cautious optimism, tempered by uncertainty.
College Tuition Rises Faster Than Inflation Yet Again (Update2)
(Bloomberg) by Julie Ziegler, 10/29/08
Costs rose 5.9 percent this year at private four-year colleges in the U.S., outpacing the biggest gain in inflation in 17 years and increasing the demand for financial aid.
PLoS Biology at 5: The Future Is Open Access
PLOS Journal – 10/28/2008
Theodora Bloom, Christine Ferguson, Liza Gross, Catriona J. MacCallum*, Jami Milton, Robert Shields, Stephanie Wai, Janelle Weaver, Liz Williams Citation: Bloom T, Ferguson C, Gross L, MacCallum CJ, Milton J, et al.
Publish And Be Damned, Most Likely
In The Pipeline – 10/27/2008
Publication in the scientific journals is not necessarily a big priority in the drug industry.
International science community to establish global virtual library for scientific data
Physorg – 10/23/2008
...established networks of data centres and services to provide full and open access to scientific data and products for the global community.
Another Reason to Consider Open Access
Scienceblogs.com – 10/22/08
Jim Hu gives us another reason for scientists to consider publishing in open access journals
At Frankfurt, Many Say Digital Will Take Over Print Books by 2018
LibraryJournal.com – 10/22/2008
Go back to the Academic Newswire for more stories 40 percent predict digital will rule by 2018 Only seven percent say publishers "driving" digitization efforts 50 percent say users will pay for online content (This article first appeared in the October 21 issue of the LJ Academic Newswire.
Open Source Text Publisher Gets More Financing
PW – 10/21/08
Flat World Knowledge, a year-old company that plans to publish free open source college textbooks, has received $700,000 in new financing, bringing total investment in the startup to $1.4 million.
Wiley-Blackwell announces enhanced partnership with COPE
Knowledge Speak – 10/22/08
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced an enhanced partnership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). More than 1,300 journals, the full collection of scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals published by Wiley-Blackwell, will now benefit from COPE membership, thus providing all editors and societies with the opportunity to share in COPE’s expertise in this area.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-301452,newsId-2384.html
New Science Textbook Simultaneously Released In Print And With Free Online Access
Medical News Today – 10/17/2008
For the first time, a new edition of a major textbook will be simultaneously released in print and free online in a novel approach to publishing that permits the textbook to reach a wider audience.
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PSP Contributing Staff:
Sara Pinto, Director
Kate Kolendo, Project Manager
John Tagler, Executive Director