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

No. 58, March 15, 2011

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 AAP & PSP Web Sites

www.publishers.org

www.pspcentral.org



2. PSP Education and Training Programs

Programs
PSP and STM co-present
The Finer Points of Messaging: An Executive Workshop for Publishers
Tuesday, April 26th
10:00am–4:00 pm
Washington, DC
A highly interactive workshop to hone skills on delivering clear, concise compelling messages about the publishing industry and its value to the communities it serves. In addition to tailoring messages to researchers and librarians, this session will include a focused section on working with U.S. policy makers, legislative staffers and government officials. Based on core STM industry messages that should be applicable to any publisher, this session will include:

PSP and CCC co-present
Fundamentals of Copyright for Today’s Dynamic Publishing Environment
Thursday, May 5th
10:00am-3:00pm
Wolters Kluwer Offices
Philadelphia, PA
This session provides an overview of fundamental copyright concepts, with a focus on concerns primary to the publishing industry in today’s dynamic, digital environment. This session is intended to provide participants with an understanding of basic copyright principles and enable them to begin to apply that learning to their daily activities.
More Information
Online Registration Form

Professional, Scholarly & Academic Books:
The Basic Boot Camp
Friday, May 20th
9:00am-5:00pm
AAP/NY Offices
New York, NY
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.
More Information and Registration Form
Online Registration Form

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


3. Other Programs of Interest
Multichannel Success Stories
Information Today: Buying & Selling Content
March 27th – 29th
Scottsdale, AZ
http://www.buy-sell-econtent.com/2011/

Sense about Science: Debating Peer Review
Admission: Free (limited space available)
April 26th, 4:15pm - 6:00pm
Washington, DC
http://www.stm-assoc.org/event.php?event_id=73

STM Spring Conference 2011
Trailblazing & transforming scholarly publishing 2011+
Stakeholders venture forward
April 26th – 28th
Washington, DC
http://www.stm-assoc.org/event.php?event_id=59

Council of Science Editors Annual Conference
Making Science Matter
April 29th – May 3rd
Baltimore
http://www.resourcenter.net/Scripts/4Disapi07.dll/4DCGI/events/280.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=280


4. New Job Postings

  • Springer Science+Business Media is seeking a VP/Director Library Sales - Latin America to supervise Library sales teams in the selling of all Company products and services to the library community in Latin America. Responsible for managing and motivating sales teams. Responsible for revenue budgets in the Academic business segment. Specific responsibilities include setting group and individual goals, bonus plans and managing revenue expectations. Negotiates with both libraries and agents for final pricing and develops special projects for inside and direct sales reps. Motivates and directs department staff. Responsible for control and budgeting of sales team expenses.
  • Thieme Publishers, an international scientific and medical publisher in business over 120 years with offices in New York, Stuttgart and New Delhi, has an immediate opening for a Customer Service Coordinator. This is a part time position, approximately 29 hours per week, which may lead to full time. (Company is located in NYC - Penn Station area). The primary responsibility of this position will be to assist the Customer Service Department with all activities related to customer support; which will include taking phone orders, assisting with customer inquiries, handling returns and processing credits. Additional responsibilities may also include other Customer Service administrative functions as assigned,
  • The Johns Hopkins University Press seeks an Associate Editor in the Social Sciences to identify and pursue new authors and new books in such fields as Higher Education and the History of Science and Technology. The Associate Editor Works closely with the Executive Editor to attain stated list-building goals and, in conjunction with the Press’s editorial committees, selects the most promising projects, from the perspective of both sales and scholarly acclaim, for publication.

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
*** Recommended Reading***
Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses. A Report from the Association of American University Presseshttp://aaupnet.org/resources/reports/business_models/aaupbusinessmodels2011.pdf

Publishing Support for Small Print-Based Publishers. Options for ARL Librarieshttp://www.arl.org/bm~doc/pub-support_7mar11.pdf

Internet Archive and Library Partners Develop Joint Collection of 80,000+ eBooks
To Extend Traditional In-Library Lending Modelhttp://www.archive.org/post/349420/in-library-ebook-lending-program-launched

Presentations from the ASA Conference – Recession is the Mother of Invention, February 21st & 22nd, London, UK – are now available on the ASA web site.http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences2011


Articles of Interest

Accessibility
World Blind UnionWon't Be Sidetracked From Quest ForTreatyOn Reading Access
Intellectual Property Watch (blog) – 3/10/11
TheWorld Blind Union(WBU) recently announced that it suspended its participation in two industry-oriented initiatives to facilitate access and cross-border distribution of works for visually impaired readers, and reaffirmed the need for aninternational legal instrument.

Copyright & Intellectual Property
StarveCopyright'Parasites,' Official Urges
National Journal – 3/14/11
The most effective way to target foreign Websites that illegally stream copyrighted material may be to cut off their funding, Maria Pallante, acting register of copyrights, told a House subcommittee Monday.

CopyrightSystem Must “Adapt Or Perish,” WIPO Director Says
Intellectual Property Watch (blog) – 3/15/11
The traditionalcopyrightsystem's balance for encouraging yet controlling access to copyrighted works in order to extract value for them has met with a destructive force in the internet that it cannot overcome without... without changing itself, noted WIPO Director-General Francis Gurry, head of the World Intellectual Property Organization said in a recent landmark speech.

Cory Doctorow: DRM is no friend of business
BBC News – 3/13/11
Many people who create and sell content put their trust in 'digital rights management' (DRM) software to protect their work fromcopyrighttheft. Butcopyrightactivist, blogger and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow thinks content creators should steer clear of DRM.

Changingcopyrightlaws could "stifle" literature, report finds
The Bookseller – 3/11/11
Changingcopyrightlaws in the UK could strike a blow to investment in literature, a report has found. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) has produced the document for the CopyrightLicensing Agency (CLA), which reveals that out of £4.3billion investedin new content in the UK in 2007, £1.6 billion was pumped into arts and literature alone.

U.S. Supreme Court Takes On Landmark Fair Use Case
Publishers Weekly – 3/8/11
Can foreign works that have passed into the public domain in the U.S. be withdrawn by Congress and put back under copyright protection? That question will be addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

eBooks
As Library E-Books Live Long, Publisher Sets Expiration Date
New York Times – 3/14/11
Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don't tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. For years, public libraries building their e-book collections have typically done so with the agreement from publishers that once a library buys an e-book, it can lend it out, one reader at a time, an unlimited number of times. That precedent was recently upended.

The Expensive e-Book: The Illogical Reasons Why Paper Books Can Sell for Less
The Scholarly Kitchen – 3/15/11
When you explore the revenue model of e-books vs. print books, some pricing practices make sense. But when you factor in the expenses, the logic begins to break down.

E-Book Lending Takes Off
Wall Street Journal – 3/11/11
Most majorbook publishershaven't made their e-books lendable, and the books can be lent only once and for only 14 days. That means that with every successful loan, the sites' available library shrinks unless new users with books to lend e-books for Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle and Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook free.

Apps outnumber e-books as the most popular solitary, immersive entertainment...
Independent – 3/4/11
In our digital world apps are 15 times more popular than e-books - at least in the Apple ecosystem.

PublishersSlowly Warm to Library E-lending
PCWorld – 2/25/11
While library executives are set on the idea, at least somebook publishersseem to still be wary of having libraries circulate electronic copies of their books to multiple parties, even with controls in place.

Google
Google Clamps Down on Content Factories
Wired – 2/25/11
Google has updated its core ranking algorithm for US searchers to decrease the prevalence of so-called content farms in top search results.

Higher Education
Evolving Higher Ed Hubs
Inside Higher Ed – 3/11/11
What will the next generation of university centers look like? Experts discuss how Qatar and the United Arab Emirates illustrate the choices before many countries.

College Associations Urge Senate Passage of Patent Overhaul
Inside Higher Ed – 3/1/11
Six higher education groups are urging the U.S. Senate to pass long-delayed legislation this week to overhaul federal patent laws. Ina letter to senators, the Association of American Universities and five other associations express their support for the measure,S. 23.

Libraries
Scholarly Communication 101 Road Show hosts selected by ACRL
American Libraries – 3/7/11
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Scholarly Communications Committee has selected five sites to host the Scholarly Communication 101: Starting with the basics workshop. ACRL is underwriting the costs of delivering this proven content by sending expert presenters on theroad.

Librarian Unhappiness Over New Harper e-Book Lending Policy Grows
Publishers Weekly – 3/2/11
The sometimes uneasy relationship between librarians and book publishers reached a new level of tension after HarperCollins—citing the explosive growth of e-book sales—announced a new e-book lending policy beginning March 7 that will limit the length of its library licenses to a maximum of 26 loans per e-title.

The eBook User’s Bill of Rights
Librarian in Black – 2/28/11
The eBook User’s Bill of Rights is a statement of the basic freedoms that should be granted to all eBook users.

Open Access & Institutional Repositories
Developing Resourceful Research: Authors and Researchers to Benefit from Innovative BioMed Central and OpenHelix Program
Benzinga – 3/15/11
Open accessscience publisher, BioMed Central, and OpenHelix, provider of training on bioinformatics and genomics resources, have launched an innovative program for scientists to gain wider knowledge and support. Links within BioMed Central journals will direct readers to web-based training on bioinformatics and genomics tools used or cited in research articles.

Scientific & Scholarly Publishing
Libraries Plan for a New Online Data Management Tool To Support Grant-Funded Research
Library Journal – 3/2/11
Researchers are about to get even more value out of their data, courtesy of their libraries. Several academic libraries have teamed up to create an online tool to help researchers at academic institutions more easily construct data-management plans for their research projects.

University Presses Are Urged to Work Together to Survive
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) – 3/7/11
But they're also putting more and more energy into trying electronic,open-access, and nontraditional publishing—and are likely to be experimenting for a very long time. So says a new report made public today by the Association of American University Presses.

New Report on Business Models for Scholarly Publishing
Inside Higher Ed – 3/7/11
University presses need to consider new business models, and share information on successful new approaches, but no one model should be assumed to be correct for all, according toa reportbeing released today by the Association of American University Presses.

General Interest
Len Riggio: American trade on cusp of "transformational growth"
The Bookseller – 3/10/11
Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio has said the American book trade is on the cusp of "transformational growth" led by digital sales, in a bullish keynote address to the annual meeting of theAssociation of American Publishers.

Riggio Tells Publishers 'Transformational Growth' Ahead
Publishers Weekly – 3/9/11
In an upbeat and optimistic keynote speech about the book market at the annual meeting of theAssociation of American Publishers, Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio said the industry is on the cusp of “transformational growth” led by thesale of digital content.

HEYPUBLISHERS: Here's How To Survive (And Thrive) In The Coming Nuclear Winter
The Business Insider – 3/2/11
Book publishers: this is it. The moment you've been dreading for years is right now. So, how to not end up like the music industry? Here's the good news, though: this revolution also has tremendous opportunity if you adapt.

 

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PSP Contributing Staff:

Sara Pinto, Director

Kate Kolendo, Project Manager

John Tagler, Executive Director