Launch of the project Press-OO/ISSN


Our colleague Regina Romano Reynolds invited at the USKG Conference 2013
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Sixty percent of publishing executives believe that tablets have become “the ideal reading platform,” and 45 percent believe that dedicated e-readers will soon be irrelevant, according to a recent online, by-invitation survey conducted by global research and advisory firm Forrester. (The Digital Shift, 2013-01-17)

In the past few months, pricing of ebooks and issues of competition has come into sharper focus. Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today—prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new models and channels for publishing, distribution, and sales. (Information Today, 2013-01-17)

In the past year, the “if” and “when” questions for ebooks were answered—electronic media are now clearly in the mainstream and even driving changes in all aspects of publication/distribution/use of information and literature. June 2012 statistics from the Association of American Publishers (ASA) showed that ebooks have overtaken hardcovers in terms of publisher revenues.
2013 will see the next stages of the disruptions caused by our evolving interconnected world of information as they continue to change the very landscape of information production, distribution, and use. Key issues for the coming year remain unsettled. (Information Today, 2013-01-10)

Latin American scientists are producing more scientific papers and those papers are cited more widely. As a matter of fact, from 2000 to 2010, the number of scholarly papers published in journals indexed in Scopus bibliographic database and authored by Latin American researchers rose by more than nine per cent a year, according to the study published in November 2012 in Research Trends. (Scidev.net, 2013-01-07)

Name changes have consequences. In the short term, a name changes artificially depresses the journal’s impact factor as citations in the next two years are split between the old and new title names. Citing authors are also prone to making mistakes, attributing new articles to the old name or vice versa. As some authors are prone to reuse the erroneous citations of others, errors can persist years after a name change has been made. (Scholarly kitchen, 2012-12-18)

The past 10 years or so have seen an ever-increasing move away from print toward online-only journal subscriptions and licenses. Academic and research libraries have been moving to an online-only environment for over a decade now. According to a recent EBSCO report:
Whereas 88% of [library] sales were in print-only in 1998, now print makes up only 34% of sales while electronic only sales have gone from 4% of sales in 1998 to 50% of sales today.
So why haven’t more journals moved fully online only?  (Scholarly kitchen, 2012-12-13)

The archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited free reading by the public, JSTOR announced on January 8. Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks. (Library Journal, 2013-01-9)

A survey published bythe Pew Internet Project finds that only five percent of "recent library users" have tried to borrow an e-book this year.
About three-quarters of public libraries offer e-books, according to the American Library Association (ALA), but finding the book you want to read can be a challenge — when it's available at all. (NPR, 2012-12-27)

The British Library has welcomed the announcement by Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, outlining new exceptions to the UK’s copyright framework. According to Roly Keating, Chief Executive, the exceptions announced will allow the British Library to stay at the forefront of research services and collection preservation in an increasingly digital and networked world.(British Library, 2012-12-20)

The discovery, consumption and creation of content - music, photos, text and video - constitutes the majority of the mobile activity. Such activities used to be rooted in a physical space, the library, the classroom or the cinema, for example. The disruptive nature of mobile technology means that many of these bonds have been loosened, or broken altogether, and require us to rethink many of the assumptions we have about how and where content is created and consumed.
That disruption is the new norm; it is a feature of the system, not a bug. For institutions, and support services like the library, this means a re-conceptualisation not just of how you deliver services, but how you design and develop those new services. (Research information, 2012-12-04)

In 2010, university librarians met in a national conference and decided to create an alternative to Google Books called the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Operating under the auspices of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, it aims to archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library’s prototype is expected to launch this year. (Spectrum IEEE, January 2013)

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of free webcasts highlighting results from the LibValue project, a three-year study funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to define and measure ways in which libraries create value through teaching and learning, research, and social, professional, and public engagement. Online registration for the LibValue series is now open for six webcasts to be held between February and August 2013. (Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries, 2013-1-17)