The ResourceShelf points to this article analyzing the prices of 6,000 journals from twelve scholarly publishers. LISU, a research center based at the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, United Kingdom, did the study.
John H. Ewing, executive director of the American Mathematical Society, compares and contrasts several models of scholarly publishing in this Chronicle of Higher Education opinion piece in order to explore where scholarly publishing has gone wrong and how to fix it.
IBM is interfering with the publication of a scholarly article about a higher incidence of cancer among some of their employees. Now the authors of other articles scheduled to be published in the particular issue of Clinics in Occupational and Evnironmental Medicine are withholding their articles to protest Elsevier’s decision not to publish the article.
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Elsevier includes some interesting statistics about journal usage in the United Kingdom as well as presenting arguments against Open Access publishing in their comments about academic publishing in the UK. I linked to the executive summary above. A 15-page .pdf report is also available.
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The Board of Directors of the Journal of Algorithms, a publication popular among mathematicians and computer scientists, announced its resignation and intention to focus on a new journal, Transactions on Algorithms, because of their frustration that Elsevier makes the publication too expensive for many college libraries to afford. According to the subscriber-restricted Chronicle of Higher [...]
This week’s Harvard University Gazette includes an article about Harvard’s decision to eliminate many subscriptions to Elsevier journals and put more effort into developing alternative publishing methods. The article includes quotes from several professors, including one who works with the Public Library of Science, about how many current scholarly publishing practices hurt and hinder scholarly [...]
Garrett types about some features in this Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Education about open access journals and publishing. There will be an online colloquy on Thursday at 1 pm exploring the issue.
The dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, John M. Unsworth, has a piece in this Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Education about the open source, open access, etc., movement at institutions of higher learning. He gives a history of the Internet, talks about initiatives at [...]
The Harvard Libraries are canceling subscriptions to approximately 100 journals “in an effort to achieve a more economically sustainable environment for research publication generally. By canceling these little-used materials, Harvard funds can be directed to resources from other publishers that are in higher demand by Harvard faculty and students.”
The Web page includes the list of [...]
This interview with Elsevier’s global director for corporate communications is almost three weeks old, but I saw it today on LISNews.com and thought it was worth a mention, especially since I haven’t included any coverage of Elsevier’s perspective in my posts about the recent developments regarding libraries’ subscriptions to Elsevier’s journals.
The director claims that [...]