Archive for 'information industries'
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.
Comments: 2
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.
Comments: 5
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.
Comments: 4
Local Food (for Thought) Movement
LJ Academic Newswire reports that U Penn is the latest to offer scan-on-demand with quality print output. Emory uses the same Kirtas machine to offer a curated collection of books relevant to Emory and to the South, unique in their collections. UMich, which has a rich collection of books scanned through their own efforts and [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 25th, 2009 under Books, Information Ethics, Technology Issues, information industries.
Comments: 7
The Paperless Dorm Room
It’s always good to start the day with a good laugh.
Joseph Storch has an idea (behind the Chronicle’s pay wall) to deal with textbook piracy - have all publishers put their books on a common electronic platform and let the colleges negotiate a subscription on behalf of students and dole out royalties to publishers based [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 3rd, 2009 under Technology Issues, information industries.
Comments: 6