Archive for 'information industries'
A Dozen Newspaper Survival Tips For Academic Librarians
The newspaper industry has become a case study of sorts for what not to do to evolve in the Internet Age. Having waited too long to adapt to the Internet’s unique ability to broadcast real-time news, newspapers now find themselves struggling to survive, and in the past year several failed to do so. Given that [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 17th, 2009 under Worth Reading, information industries.
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Balancing Act
I’m kind of in the pickle that Maura describes – subscribed to too many sources of information that I would read if I weren’t so busy keeping up with the stream of new information. But Current Cites is always a good ‘un for finding a cross-section of interesting new stuff and this week it pointed [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 29th, 2009 under Commercialization, Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues, Worth Reading, information industries.
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Sustaining Scholarship
As Jennifer Howard of the Chronicle reports, collaboration between libraries and presses was a theme at the most recent meeting of the Association of American University Presses, but there seems to have been some heat generated over library/press relations and the open access movement.
One option is the “Michigan Model” in which a press becomes [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on June 22nd, 2009 under Scholarly Communications, information industries.
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This Journal Brought to You By . . .
It was shocking at the end of April when The Scientist reported that Elsevier had published a scholarly-journal-like series that was actually advertising paid for by Merck. The peer-reviewed-like articles in the journal-like object were either reprints or summaries of articles that reported results favorable to Merck drugs. There were also “review” articles that had [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on May 9th, 2009 under Commercialization, Idiocy, Information Ethics, Information Literacy, Scholarly Communications, information industries.
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Non-rival is non-relevant
I’m glad that Elisabeth Jones wrote to our tip page about her post–Fighting for non-rival pudding–because I’ve been wanting to spout off about non-rivalness for a while now.
Anytime you hear someone talk about intellectual property you are going to wind up hearing the phrase “non-rival.” The idea is that information or knowledge is a [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on March 26th, 2009 under Copyright, information industries.
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