Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion
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Kent Anderson,  CEO/Publisher of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, analyses the recent suggestion formulated by Robert Deaner, associate professor of psychology at Grand Valley State University (United States), in the Chronicle of Higher Education: a Web site that would aggregate author opinions of journal review processes and times to publication so that future authors could avoid journals that have negative reviews or allowed long delays before publication. (Scholarly Kitchen, 2013-05-24)

STM, the "International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers" has published a document whose purpose is to set standards of behaviour for authors, journal
editors, peer reviewers, publishers or societies for society-owned or sponsored journals. (STM 2013-05-21)

According to Kent Anderson, serving authors contribute to a homogenization of efforts. Indeed, author incentives are constrained and direct. Authors want domain-specific prestige, citations, and rapid publication. A journal that seems to provide two out of three of these will be attractive for publication of most papers. (Scholarly Kitchen, 2013-05-16)

U.S. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement
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In the first of two articles, Research Africa editor Linda Nordling takes on the threats of plagiarism. In the second one, Brains Network editor Marc Mcilhone supports open sharing. (SciDev.Net, 2013-04-23/24)

The power of funding alone should not be enough to override academic freedom, argues Curt Rice, vice president for research and development at the University of Tromsø nor does open access automatically skew the world of scholarship. (The Guardian, 2013-04-22)

OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library’s ability to catalog its collections, including electronic, digital, and physical materials.. (Information Today, 2013-05-30)

At a Westminster Media Forum on publishing (21st May, United Kingdom), Tim Coates, c.e.o. of e-book company Bilbary, made the case for a model based on “Reader- Driven Access”, where libraries do not buy copies of e-books to lend to customers, but instead allow readers to access books from a national catalogue, with the library paying a fee to the publisher for each loan. (The Bookseller, 2013-05-24)

A highlight from the British Library on the activities of The Europeana Newspapers Project (ENP), a network of 18 partners (and 11 associated partners) working together to make more than 18 million digitised newspaper pages (including 10 million pages of full-text content) available via the Europeana ecosystem of online services, with aggregation carried out by The European Library. (British Library, 2013-05-07)

According to Aaron Schmidt, the biggest trend in website design is responsive web design (RWD). In a responsive design, a website elegantly displays on any size device, its popularity  is, in part, a response to the proliferation of mobile devices. Aaron Schmidt, principal at the library user experience consultancy Influx, thinks that all libraries should strongly consider employing it when redesigning. However, according to him, RWD isn’t itself a solution to library website woes. (Library Journal 2013-05-06)

OverDrive, a digital distributor of eBooks and Sourcebooks, an independant book publisher, are preparing to launch a pilot program whose goal is to clearly demonstrate the impact library ebook lending has on book sales and author recognition. Early results will be presented at BookExpo America (BEA) which runs May 30-June 1 in New York City (Library Journal, 2013-05-03)

28 June 2013 – Chicago

June 19, 2013 – Online