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

No. 9, January 16, 2009

 

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 Web Site

PSP . . . Links archive now available on the PSP website
http://www.pspcentral.org/commPublicAffairs/commPSP_001.cfm

PSP Annual Conference – The early bird rate has been extended for another week
http://www.pspcentral.org/events2/PSP2009AnnualConference.cfm

New on the AAP Web Site

Walden Media is the recipient of the 2009 AAP Honors award, which will be presented at the Association’s Annual Meeting in New York on March 11.  Walden’s President Michael Flaherty will accept the award. 
http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/Archicves/2009_Jan/GAMwalden.htm


2.  PSP Education and Training Programs

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

The Development Cycle for Digitally-Enabled Publishing: Technology, Intelligence, and Listening to Your Users
PSP 2009 Pre-Conference
February 4, 2009
Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
Seminar Information: http://www.pspcentral.org/documents/PSPAnnualConferenceInformation.doc
Registration Form:  http://www.pspcentral.org/documents/RegistrationForm.doc

MashUp at the Library
Managing Colliding User Needs, Technologies, and the Ability to Deliver
PSP 2009 Pre-Conference
February 4, 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

Society for Scholarly Publishing/Association of American University Presses
Web Seminar: XML for the Smaller Publisher: The Right Choice?
January 27
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
https://www.sspnet.org/Events/Meetings_and_Seminars/2009_SSP_Web_Seminar/spage.aspx
Society for Scholarly Publishing
Librarians and Publishers: Partners in Troubled Times
February 3
Washington, DC
https://www.sspnet.org/Events/Meetings_and_Seminars/2009_SSP_Librarian_Focus_Group/spage.aspx

Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries, Annual Conference
February 16 – 17
London, UK
http://www.subscription-agents.org/conference/200902/index.html

Council of Science Editors Annual Conference
Show Me the Data – The Science of Editing & Publishing
May 1 – 5
Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events/annualmeeting09/index.cfm


4.  New Job Postings

 

  • The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain is seeking a North American Sales Manager – Books to join their Chicago office.
  • The American Society for Microbiology, a leading publisher of scientific journals, has an opening for an Electronic Production Specialist in their Washington, DC office
  • The World Bank is seeking a Publishing Associate (Sales Manager, Online Resources) for their Washington, DC offices

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

Literary reading on the rise for the first time in history of Arts Endowment survey
http://www.nea.gov/news/news09/ReadingonRise.html
http://www.psupress.org/news/SandyThatchersWritings.html


Articles of Interest

Unbound Medicine offers download support for iPhone and iPod
Knowledge Speak – 01/16/09
Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine has announced that its platform now supports application download to Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices.

Open Access would solve piracy issue
Toronto Star – 01/14/09
... those journals contain the products of publicly funded science. These costs are passed on to students as tuition increases.

ProQuest announces changes to eLibrary research database
Knowledge Speak – 01/14/09
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has announced innovative changes to the eLibrary research database.

HathiTrust and the Google Deal
LJ – 01/15/09
In 2008, some of the world's great research libraries created HathiTrust, a unified, comprehensive digital collection of the published record. As the Google settlement winds its way forward, many will surely wonder how HathiTrust will relate to the product Google now proposes to offer

More Evidence That The iPod Touch Is The Surprise Hit Of The Season
Business Week Byte of the Apple – 01/13/09
There’s been buzz for the past few weeks of a major increase in the popularity of the iPod Touch.  In early December, it popped up as a top seller on Amazon. And many developers I’ve spoken with in recent days say they saw a huge rise in downloads starting on Christmas day, from what they believe are new iPod touch owners.

The Media Equation - Will Someone Please Invent iTunes for News?
New York Times – 1/12/09
Words matched: digital rights management.  Last Tuesday, iTunes, Apple’s ubiquitous online music store that sold more than 2.4 billion tracks last year alone, changed its own tune, announcing

Unexpected Twist: Fiction Reading Is Up
Washington Post – 1/12/09
By Bob Thompson There's good news about reading, says the National Endowment for the Arts in a report the agency is releasing today

Digital pirates cause havoc in academic publishing
Times Higher Education – 01/08/2009
Self-styled 'crusaders' find a receptive audience for illegal copies of textbooks. Jon Marcus reports Scholarly publishers typically count their sales successes by hundreds of volumes sold, not thousands.

CRKN, Ingram Digital deal to provide Canadian universities access to e-book content
Knowledge Speak – 01/08/2009
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital has announced that it has been selected by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) to provide 67 Canadian universities, encompassing nearly 900,000 researchers, scholars and students, with access to premium e-book content from leading academic publishers.

ebrary unveils on-demand MARC records
Knowledge Speak – 01/08/2009
E-book technology firm ebrary has announced that customers can now immediately upload free MARC records for individual titles they purchase as well as e-books and other documents added to the company's subscription databases.

RIAA.Change.Gov?
Digital Daily – 01/07/09
How’s this for “Change”? President-elect Barack Obama named four former Clinton administration officials to leadership posts in the Justice Department Wednesday, among them Tom Perrelli

NACS Sets Record Straight on Textbooks
MSNBC – 01/07/09
FACT: A study by the Florida Office of Program Policy & Analysis and Government about students purchasing new college textbooks online. 

The Library Journal Academic Newswire Year in Review, the Top ...
Library Journal – 01/07/09
Indeed, in 2008, it was evident just how far things have come for open access. More than two-thirds of academic journals now permit self-archiving

Peter Suber, Open Access News
Peter Suber – 01/07/09
Just three months ago, in response to these concerns, Chairman Conyers introduced the bipartisan Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (H.R. 6845) and scheduled a House subcommittee hearing to begin to explore the copyright implications

NSF to reduce funding support for digital libraries initiative
Knowledge Speak – 01/06/09
The US' National Science Foundation (NSF) is in the process of reducing its support for digital libraries, according to reports from the Science Magazine. The NSF's National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) programme was launched in 2000 to help scientists and science educators tap into the rapidly expanding online world.

More Libraries and Publishers Join SERU Agreement from NISO for E-Resources
Library Journal – 01/05/09
Non-binding understanding aids license negotiations during acquisitions process.

Music Industry Ditches Company It Used to Gather Evidence on Students
Chronicle of Higher Ed – 01/05/09
The Recording Industry Association of America, which announced last month that it would stop suing groups of students for alleged illegal file sharing, has ditched the company it had hired to seek out such pirates.

Is Google's culture grab unstoppable? The Register
World News – 01/01/09
Friday, 02 January 2009 photo video slideshow (photo: WN / theresa) Computer Europe Google Photos UK Google dealt itself a powerful piece of the future in the proposed settlement of the "Google Books" case his year.

Perils of Peer-to-Peer
Ed Tech – 01/01/09
Educators find themselves in the middle of a crackdown on student downloads.

Pushing the Envelope on Copyright Exemptions
Inside Higher Ed – 12/31/08
Professors and librarians petition U.S. to broaden exceptions to allow more use of DVDs and other audiovisual works in the classroom -- and beyond.

SAGE sponsors new ALA scholarship
Knowledge Speak – 12/31/08
Academic publisher SAGE has announced its support for a new American Library Association (ALA) scholarship, the Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media. The scholarship will support a student in an ALA accredited master's programme in Library and Information Studies pursing a specialty in new media.

Author, Lawmakers Want ‘Libel Tourism’ on the Congressional Agenda
CQPolitics.com, DC – 12/30/08
Ehrenfeld’s allies include the editorial page of the New York Times and the Association of American Publishers (whose president and CEO is Patricia Schroeder).

Move Over Kindle; E-Books Hit Cell Phones
Business week – 12/30/08
Adam Parks is an avid reader of digital books. But you won't find him downloading the 20 or so titles he reads each year onto an electronic book device like Amazon's Kindle. Instead, Parks flips through pages -- Web-site design manuals and Sun Tzu's The Art of War are recent favorites -- on his trusted iPhone.

Australian professor charged in US enquiry on ghostwriting for medical journal
Knowledge Speak – 12/29/08
Dr. John Eden, an associate professor at the University of NSW and the director of the Sydney Menopause Centre, has reportedly been caught up in a US Senate enquiry. The enquiry is probing whether big pharmaceutical firms are paying ghostwriters to write journal articles favourable to their products. Dr. Eden's article, allegedly written with the aid of paid ghostwriters, appeared in the American Journal Of Obstetrics & Gynecology, a journal published by Elsevier, in May 2003.

Google to close scientific data service prior to official launch
Knowledge Speak – 12/22/08
Internet search services provider Google will reportedly close its highly-anticipated scientific data service, Google Research Datasets, in January without even officially launching the product.

Prosecuting Online File Sharing Turns a Generation Criminal
U.S .News & World Report – 12/22/08
Seventy-five years ago, Prohibition ended. Just 13 years after launching an extraordinary experiment in social reform, the nation recognized that the battle against "intoxicating liquors" had failed.

Warner Music Orders Videos Pulled from YouTube
PC Mag – 12/22/08
Warner Music ordered all of its videos removed from YouTube after licensing talks between the two sides fell through. Warner was the first major label to license its content to the Google-owned site, auguring tough negotiations from the other labels to come.

Medical Publisher to Review Claim About Article’s Writer
NYTimes – 12/19/08
Elsevier said it will investigate an allegation that one of its journals published an article that was ghostwritten by a drug company.

ALA Report to Presidential Transition Team Runs the Gamut
Library Journal – 12/19/08
Recommendations, requests offered in areas from broadband and copyright to privacy and funding

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PSP Contributing Staff:

Sara Pinto, Director

Kate Kolendo, Project Manager

John Tagler, Executive Director