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No. 71, September 30, 2011
Table of Contents
1. What’s New on the AAP Website?
2. PSP Education and Training Programs
3. Other Programs of Interest
4. New Job Postings
5. Suggested Reading
1. What’s New on the AAP Wesite?
Association of American Publishers Supports Banned Books Week
http://www.publishers.org/press/47/
2. PSP Education and Training Programs
Guest Speaker:
The PSP Books Committee has invited guest speaker Bruce Hildebrand, Executive Director - Higher Education, Association of American Publishers, to its next meeting on Friday, October 7th from 12:30-1:30 PM at the AAP/NY offices. Bruce will address “Things That Keep Me Awake at Night.”
If you or a colleague would like to attend this talk in person, or via webinar, please email spinto@publishers.org.
Programs:
Fall 2011 Seminar Series on Selected Topics in Electronic Publishing
Tuesday, September 27th – 12:00-1:30 PM
Tuesday, October 25th – 12:00-1:30 PM
Tuesday, November 15th – 12:00-1:30 PM
Tuesday, December 13th – 12:00-1:30 PM
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
Due to popular demand the PSP Electronic Information Committee (EIC) is holding it's fifth series of the Seminar Series on Selected Topics in Electronic Publishing with new topics and new speakers. The programs are targeted to staff new to electronic publishing at member organizations and address the transition underway from print to the electronic side of scholarly and professional publishing. In-person spaces are limited to 18 but webinar spaces are unlimited.
Course Information
Registration Form
Social Media and Networking in PSP 2.0
Wednesday, October 19th
12:00-3:00 PM
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
Social Media and Networking in PSP 2.0 was developed in response to the overwhelming positive feedback received from Social Media and Networking in PSP 1.0. This seminar takes things a bit further with presentations to illustrate how technology and social media are actively shaping our behavior and becoming an integral part of our daily lives. While the seminar is still designed to provide a high-level view at how social media and social networking are used in today’s publishing environment, and how you might harness it to enhance your offerings, brace yourself for what the future can potentially offer.
Program
Course Information
Registration Form
Professional, Scholarly & Academic Books:
The Basic Boot Camp
Thursday, October 20th
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wolters Kluwer Offices
Two Commerce Square
2001 Market Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers presents a unique opportunity to learn about book publishing. If you have less than three years’ experience in professional, scholarly, and academic publishing—or are considering a career change—this workshop will provide an indispensable overview of the industry.
More Information
Program
Registration Form
Save The Date!
PSP 2012 Annual Conference
Prospering with Digital: Making Investments Pay
February 1-3, 2012
Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
PSP 2012 Annual Conference Program
Online Registration Form
Fax/Mail Registration Form
Hotel Information
Additional Information
For more information on all of these seminars, please visit http://publishers.org/psp/seminars
For more information contact: spinto@publishers.org.
3. Other Programs of Interest
Ebooks: The New Normal. A virtual summit
October 12th, 10:00 AM – 6 PM EDT
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/events/e-book-summit/program/
Open Access Week: New Directions in Scholarly Communication (Webinar)
October 24th , 1:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)
http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/new-directions-in-scholarly-communication
Best Practices in E-Book Metadata (Webinar)
October 27th, 10:15 AM (Eastern Time)
http://virtual.publishingbusiness.com/registration/
Charleston Conference
November 2nd – 5th
Charleston, SC
http://www.katina.info/conference/
Berlin 9: The Berlin Conference on Open Access
November 8th – 10th
Washington, DC
http://www.berlin9.org/about/declaration/index.shtml
Content and Apps for Mobile Devices: Engaging Users in the Mobile Experience
November 8th
Washington, DC
http://www.resourcenter.net/Scripts/4Disapi2.dll/4DCGI/events/329.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=329
Moving to the Online-Only Journal: Breaking Free of Print Constraints
November 9th
Washington, DC
http://www.resourcenter.net/Scripts/4Disapi2.dll/4DCGI/events/329.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=329
4. New Job Postings
For full details, please visit http://www.pspcentral.org/jobOpenings/jobsOpenFrame.cfm to view these and other exciting career opportunities. To post a position please contact spinto@publishers.org.
- The American Institute of Physics is seeking a Journal Manager. Overall responsibility is for ensuring the success of a select group of AIP publications and products. This includes working with journal editors to define editorial direction and develop content, as well as managing the product(s), driving the marketing strategies - particularly marketing to authors - and gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements through market research; all of which involves working closely with internal business units, academic editors and external third-party organizations. This position also includes responsibility for ensuring that development efforts support the overall strategies and goals of the Publisher's Office. Candidate performance will be measured against each product's success using various metrics.
- The American Institute of Physics is seeking a Managing Editor to perform research and analysis in support of strategic objectives for a subset of AIP publications. This includes working closely with the Journal Manager to monitor and analyze journal metrics, and measure progress towards targets, as well as coordinating editorial input to marketing efforts that will ensure increased journal visibility. The Managing Editor will collaborate closely with Marketing to identify and align with the target audience, and refine the marketing message to that audience. This position also includes responsibility for working with internal business units to align AIP activities to strategic objectives. Candidate performance will be measured against each product’s success using various metrics.
For full details, please visit http://www.pspcentral.org/jobOpenings/jobsOpenFrame.cfm to view these and other exciting career opportunities. To post a position please contact spinto@publishers.org.
5. Suggested Reading
(Please note: some links may require passwords)
Web Sites of Interest
OhioLINK—OCLC Collection and Circulation Analysis Project 2011
This study assesses how the book resources of OhioLINK libraries are being used and identifies how the limited resources of OhioLINK member libraries can be utilized more effectively. OhioLINK, the Ohio Library and Information Network, is a consortium of 88 Ohio college and university libraries.
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-06.pdf
Articles of Interest
Copyright & Intellectual Property
Efforts to protect intellectual property in digital age make progress, UN reports
UN News Centre – 9/26/11
The United Nations agency entrusted with defending intellectual property such as trademarks, patents and copyright opened its annual meeting in Geneva this week and reported progress on issues ranging from audiovisual performances to protecting the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples.
The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books
The Atlantic – 9/23/11
In a plot turn that surprised many last week, the Authors Guild, led by modern-day legal-thriller writer Scott Turow,filed suitagainst five universities and the digital tower, calledHathiTrust, that those universities created to preserve and make available to students and faculty scans of books from their collections.
European Commission Agreement a Major Step in Boosting Mass Digitization
Library Journal – 9/22/11
An agreement signed September 19 in Brussels could make it possible for European libraries and cultural institutions to acquire the licenses necessary to digitize "out-of-commerce" books and journals in their collections and make them accessible online via Europeana.
Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues
InfoToday.com – 9/22/11
This suit came 3 days beforepublishersand authors groups were meeting with Google's representatives in US Federal Court for a status conference on pending litigation on Sept. 15. Publishersand Google reported that progress was being made.
Abuse of Trust?
Inside Higher Ed – 9/19/11
Friday’smea culpafollowed a public flogging of the library and its nonprofit digital consortium,HathiTrust, at the hands of the Authors Guild, in which the guild quickly tracked down the owners of the copyrights on several works that HathiTrust had categorized as “orphans” -- books and articles that are in copyright but whose copyright owners cannot be located or identified.
HathiTrust Acknowledges Flaws in Handling ‘Orphan Works’
Chronicle of Higher Ed – 9/16/11
Faced with criticism over how it identifies “orphan works,” the HathiTrust digital repositoryacknowledgedthat its procedure is “flawed” and said it was working to fix the problems before it makes those works more widely available. A work is considered an orphan if it’s subject to copyright but its owner can’t be identified or found.
HathiTrust Suspends Its Orphan Works Release
Publishers Weekly – 9/16/11
Following the filing of a lawsuit over its scanning and orphan works initiative, HathiTrust said it would suspend indefinitely its plan to release a set of 140 orphan works until its processes for determining copyright status are improved.
Copyright confusion dogs European digitisation push
BBC – 9/16/11
The cultural life of Europe will suffer unless more effort is made to clarify what libraries can do with so-called orphan works, says a study.
British Library study supports electronic clearance of orphan works
Knowledgespeak – 9/16/11
The British Library has published a study into rights clearance and mass digitisation of orphan works. It found that digital clearance and providing cultural institutions with legal certainty over their activities are needed to ensure that the materials do not remain out of reach of citizens.
E-Books
If it’s E, it leads
Library Journal – 9/22/11
Barbara Fister explains why she finds herself tempted to put on a green eyeshade and take a red pencil to news stories about ebooks.
Can JSTOR Solve the Course-Assigned eBook Problem?
Go-to-hellman blogspot – 9/21/11
Just imagine if libraries were like airlines. Your flight to Information could cost $20 or $2,000 depending on how far in advance you book, whether you're connecting through Seattle or going direct, how full the flight is, the day of the week, the phase of the moon, and who knows what else.
Newest Aptara Survey Charts Changes in E-book Market
Publishers Weekly – 9/20/11
The third annual e-book survey ofbook publishersfound a rapid increase in sales and title output, especially among trade houses, but questions still need to be resolved about e-readers, formats, and standards.
In E-Books,PublishersHave Rivals: News Sites
New York Times – 9/19/11
Book publishersare surrounded by hungry new competitors: Amazon, with its steadily growing imprints; authors who publish their own e-books.
Google
Google’s Extreme Makeover of its Heritage
Forbes – 9/27/11
When pressed further, about whether Google’s copying of 15 million books without permission of the copyright owners and making them available to the world via a variety of Google money making purposes, Ms. Creighton tripled down on her stance and said that Google Books was “fair use;” that the world’s authors and publishers were being “copyright absolutists;” and ironically she even absolutely promised: “We are 100% sure we will win” the Google Books case.
Michael Healy Joining Copyright Clearance Center
PW – 9/27/11
With the Google Book Settlement all but dead, another sign that the market is moving on is the announcement by, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) that Michael Healy, the former executive director (designate) for the Google Settlement’s proposed Book Rights Registry, is joining CCC and will start in October in the newly created post of executive director, Author and Publisher Relations.
Google Girds for a Grilling
Wall Street Journal – 9/19/11
Google Inc. is taking no chances as its executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, prepares to face a Senate hearing Wednesday on whether the company is abusing its dominance in Internet search.
Judge Sets Schedule in Case Over Google’s Digital Library
New York Times – 9/16/11
Google’s plan to build a huge digital library remained stalled on Thursday when a federal judge set a proposed schedule for a lawsuit against the giant search company that could take the case to trial next year.
Google Books Pretrial Schedule Set
GalleyCat – 9/16/11
At a status conference in front of federal judgeDenny Chin, publishers reported “good progress” in striking a new settlement with Google over the future of 15 million scanned books. Nevertheless, a trial looms on the horizon.
Chin pushes Google Settlement deadline to 2012
The Bookseller – 9/16/11
The judge in the Google Settlement case has extended the deadline for talks between the internet giant and the publishers and authors involved.
Judge extends time for Google digital books talks
Chicago Tribune (Reuters) – 9/15/11
Google Inc and authors and publishers groups have about nine more months to untangle their six-year-old legal dispute over plans to create the world's largest digital library, a federal judge said on Thursday.
Judge Adopts Trial Schedule At Google Status Conference, but Settlement Talks Continue
Publishers Weekly – 9/15/11
The Google Books case is headed to litigation. At a status conference Thursday, Judge Denny Chin adopted a proposed pre-trial schedule that, if followed, would have the case ready for trial by July 2012.
French publishers drop charges against Google
The BookSeller – 9/15/11
French publishers Albin Michel, Flammarion and Gallimard have confirmed they have dropped charges against Google for digitising copyrighted books from their catalogues without prior permission.
Higher Education
The Leadership Gap to Come
Inside Higher Ed – 9/28/11
Demographics alone will hasten the transition in leadership at most US colleges and universities over the next several years. According to the American Council on Education, in just the past 20 years the percentage of presidents age 61 and over increased from 14 percent to nearly half. Moreover,the ACE datamake it clear that few of those currently in the traditional pool of candidates –provosts and vice presidents– express interest in succeeding to a university presidency.
College Graduation Rates Are Stagnant Even as Enrollment Rises, a Study Finds
New York Times – 9/27/11
A report by a group seeking to raise college graduation rates shows that despite decades of steadily climbing enrollment rates, the percentage of students making it to the finish line is barely budging.
Major Publishers Join Indiana U. Project That Requires Students to Buy E-Textbooks
Chronicle of Higher Ed – 9/15/11
Agame-changing e-textbook projectat Indiana University—in which the university requires certain students to purchase e-textbooks and negotiates unusually low prices by promising publishers large numbers of sales—now has the participation of major textbook publishers, and university officials plan to expand the effort.
Libraries
Europe’s national librarians support Open Data licensing
Europeana – 9/28/11
Meeting at the Royal Library of Denmark, the Conference of European National Librarians has voted overwhelmingly to support the open licensing of their data. This means that the metadata describing the millions of books published in Europe will become increasingly accessible for anybody to re-use.
Orphan works project undaunted by lawsuit
UM Record – 9/26/11
The University of Michigan Library continues to operate its orphan works project “because we remain as certain as ever that our proposed uses of orphan works are lawful and important to the future of scholarship and the libraries that support it,” as stated by Paul Courant, University Librarian. “We have not changed our plans or activities in any way as a result of the Authors Guild lawsuit,” he maintains.
ALA meets with Association of American Publishers on e-books
American Libraries Magazine – 9/26/11
ALAPresident Molly Raphael, Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels, andALAOffice for Information Technology Policy (OITP) Director Alan Inouye met September 15 with Tom Allen and Tina Jordan, president and vice president of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), at their New York office.
Top ALA Officers Meet in New York with Head of AAP to Discuss Ebooks
Library Journal – 9/20/11
The new president of the American Library Association and ALA's executive director had a luncheon meeting in New York on September 15 with the CEO of the Association of American Publishers to air their views on ebooks and other digital materials.
Library Copyright Alliance Releases Statement on Authors Guild-HathiTrust Lawsuit
Library Journal – 9/14/11
The Library Copyright Alliance, which includes the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College & Research Libraries, released a statement on the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild and others against the HathiTrust digital repository and five universities.
Open Access & Institutional Repositories
Open access policy adopted
Daily Princetonian – 9/29/11
Princeton University recently announced a new policy of open access for Princeton-produced scholarly publications. The authorizes Princeton faculty members to post their published articles on their own websites, an online University repository or other free archives for the general public.
And the policy statement:
Recommended open-access policy report. March 2011. Voted for university-wide adoption, September 19, 2011.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/open-access-report.pdf
Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals – unless waivergranted
The Conversation – 9/28/11
At a September 19 meeting, Princeton’s Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy adopted a new open access policy that gives the university the “nonexclusive right to make available copies of scholarly articles written by its faculty, unless a professor specifically requests a waiver for particular articles.”
At Universities, A Move Toward ‘Open Access’
WSJ Blogs – 9/28/11
Princeton University has adopted a policy that prevents researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers which would mean that the university retains the “nonexclusive right to make available copies of scholarly articles written by its faculty.”
Academics v Publishers: Revolution in the air?
1709 blog – 9/28/11
Following George Monbiot's scathing article in The Guardian last month, the subject of academic publishing has been weighed and been found wanting. What is increasingly obvious is that the current mainstream system cannot continue forever; something's got to give, and one wonders whether Princeton has just thrown down the gauntlet to universities everywhere.
***Recommended Reading***
Taxpayer OA is Already Here, In Principle — In Reports
The Scholarly Kitchen – 9/21/11
Taxpayer access to US federally funded research results need not involve publishers giving away their product. The mechanism exists and it is called the research report.
SHERPA/RoMEO Adds Their Thousandth Publisher
Library Journal – 9/19/11
The SHERPA/RoMEO database, which provides complex publisher and journal policy information guidance on permissions and conditions of rights given to authors by journal publishers, now lists policies for over 18,000 journals from 1,000 publishers.
A bright future forOpen Accesspublishing
ecancermedicalscience – 9/12/11
With nearly three quarters of survey respondents having already published work inOpen Access journals, the survey indicates a growing acceptance of the OA route to publication.
Piracy
Policing the digital storage landscape
Politico – 9/21/11
Cyberlockers are the next frontier for storing music, movies and other personal files on the Internet, but the entertainment industry wants lawmakers to ensure this digital storage landscape is made safe for copyright enforcement.
Curbing online property theft
Politico – 9/21/11
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Friedman has been citing his new mantra from his latest book, “That Used to Be Us.” He says the United States “must innovate its way out of this recession” with what many writers and economists are calling a new “imagination economy.”
Entertainment industry urges Senate to pass anti-piracy bill
The Hill – 9/20/11
A coalition of film and television companies wrote to every member of the Senate Tuesday, urging them to pass the PROTECT IP Act, an online piracy measure.
NY Launches Campaign to HinderPiracyTheft
NY Convergence – 9/19/11
“New York City is at the forefront of the entertainment industry, and we need to deliver the message thatdigital piracycosts real New Yorkers real jobs,” said Mayor Bloomberg's Media & Entertainment Commissioner Katherine Oliver to Hollywood Reporter.
TheDigitalEconomy Act is about job protection, not criminalisation
The Guardian – 9/19/11
the Digital Economy Act (DEA) was not rammed through parliament in the wash-up without any debate. The DEA is the result of years of extensive consultation, consideration and debate.
Professional & Scholarly Publishing
After Disruptive Change, What’s Next for Scholarly Publishers?
Publishing Perspectives – 9/27/11
A report from the 4th ALPSP International conference, organized by the Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishers (ALPSP).
NIH Budget Slims Down
The Scientist – 9/22/11
A 2012 spending bill, approved by a Senate panel yesterday, would trim the NIH budget by $190 million.
EBSCO Projects 4 to 6 Percent Increase in Serials Prices for 2012
Library Journal – 9/21/11
EBSCO recently announced its serials price projections for academic and academic/medical libraries to be "in the range of 4 to 6 percent" for 2012—the same increase that EBSCO had projected for 2011.
Internet Ruffles Pricey ScholarlyJournals
New York Times – 9/18/11
Universities from Britain to California are refusing to renew their expensive subscriptions, turning instead to “open access” publishing, an arrangement whereby material is made available free on the Internet with few or no restrictions except for theobligation to cite it.
General Interest
The future of books: A dystopian timeline
TechCrunch – 9/27/11
John Biggs writes: “With the launch of the Kindle Fire, I thought it would be fun to write a little bit sci-fi and imagine what the publishing market will look like in the next 10 years.” As a strong proponent of the e-book he predicts print books aren’t going to make it past this decade, at least in most of the developed world.”
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