Category: Scholarly Books
Paywall Article: "Open Access and the Changing Landscape for Library Acquisitions—Interview with Gregory T. Eow"
Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms
John W Maxwell et al. have published Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms
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Here's an excerpt:
In 2018 the MIT Press secured a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation to conduct a landscape analysis of open source publishing systems, suggest sustainability models that can be adopted to ensure that these systems fully support research communication and provide durable alternatives to complex and costly proprietary services. John Maxwell at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver conducted the environmental scan and compiled this report.
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Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem: "Cornell Joins TOME Open Monograph Initiative as 15th University Member"
ARL has released "Cornell Joins TOME Open Monograph Initiative as 15th University Member."
Here's an excerpt:
The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) welcome Cornell University to the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem initiative. This pilot effort aims to support the digital publication of peer-reviewed scholarly books by participating university presses, allowing the free publication of these works online and broadly improving access to these works by scholars and the public.
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Registration Required: "New ALPSP Boss: Academic Publishing ‘Could Return to Non-Profit’"
"Guest Post—Library Publishers Convene in Vancouver to Discuss Open Platforms and Open Educational Resources"
"InstantILL Is Being Rolled Out at IUPUI. Here’s How It Works."
"Stanford University Press and the Wrong Lesson of the Humanities"
Plans S to Cover Monographs: "How Do Monographs Fit with the Open Access Agenda?"
"The Majority of Authors Agree That All Future Scholarly Books Should Be OA": The Future of Open Access Books: Findings from a Global Survey of Academic Book Authors
Springer Nature has released The Future of Open Access Books: Findings from a Global Survey of Academic Book Authors .
Here's an excerpt:
A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.
The survey looks at researchers' motivations for publishing a book, and analyses the parameters and key drivers which influence academics to publish OA or not. The white paper also identifies the major obstacles to OA publication which book authors still face: from a lack of awareness of OA publishing options and low funding, to concerns about how OA books are perceived.
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Report: "What Changes Would Researchers like to See in Academic Publishing?"
University of Virginia: "Uva Eyes New Way to Purchase Scholarly Journals"
"What Future for Digital Scholarly Editions? From Haute Couture to Prêt-à-Porter"
Elena Pierazzo has published "What Future for Digital Scholarly Editions? From Haute Couture to Prêt-à-Porter" in the International Journal of Digital Humanities.
Here's an excerpt:
Digital scholarly editions are expensive to make and to maintain. As such, they prove unattainable for less established scholars like early careers and PhD students, or indeed anyone without access to significant funding. One solution could be to create tools and platforms able to provide a publishing framework for digital scholarly editions that requires neither a high-tech skillset nor big investment.
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Book Industry Study Group: Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage
"Springer Nature Publishes Its First Machine-Generated Book"
Springer Nature has released "Springer Nature Publishes Its First Machine-Generated Book."
Here's an excerpt:
Springer Nature published its first machine-generated book in chemistry. The book prototype provides an overview of the latest research in the rapidly growing field of lithium-ion batteries. . . .
In close collaboration between Springer Nature and researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, a state-of-the-art algorithm, the so-called Beta Writer, was developed to select, consume and process relevant publications in this field from Springer Nature’s content platform SpringerLink. Based on this peer-reviewed and published content, the Beta Writer uses a similarity-based clustering routine to arrange the source documents into coherent chapters and sections. It then creates succinct summaries of the articles. The extracted quotes are referenced by hyperlinks which allow readers to further explore the original source documents. Automatically created introductions, table of contents and references facilitate the orientation within the book.
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"Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual"
Jill Cirasella and Polly Thistlethwaite have self-archived "Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual. "
Here's an excerpt:
Now that dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, students must perform yet another anxiety-inducing task: deciding whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA) or, at universities that require OA, coming to terms with openness. For some students, mostly in the humanities and some of the social sciences, who hope to transform their dissertations into books, OA has become a bogeyman, a supposed saboteur of book contracts and destroyer of careers.
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Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication: Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission
Jean-Claude Guédon et al. have self-archived Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication: Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission.
Here's an excerpt:
This report analyses the recent past and present states of scholarly communication and publishing. It proposes ten principles through which a vision for scholarly communication is shaped over the next 10-15 years. These principles also serve as a way to examine shortcomings of the current scholarly communication and publishing system. The report then offers recommendations to key actors in the scholarly communication system about the best ways to address these shortcomings. The discussion in the report focuses mainly on journals and articles, although books and monographs are also considered, as well as the significance of new and emerging forms of scholarly communication.
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"OER Cost Assessment Strategies"
Nichole Karpel and Bruce Schneider have published "OER Cost Assessment Strategies" in EDUCAUSE Review.
Here's an excerpt:
Open educational resources can provide access to high-quality resources while offsetting the costs of traditional textbooks. An array of costs are associated with the "free" approach, however, and institutions that are successful with OER understand that moving to open resources requires extensive planning, selection, management, and maintenance.
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"Wiley Q2 Sales and Earning Fall"
"Cites & Insights Volume 18 Available in Paperback"
"Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing?"
Paywall Article: "’I Own It, Don’t I?’ The Rules of Academic Copyright Ownership and You"
"New Advances in Open Source Infrastructure Support: Accelerated Book Digitization with Editoria"
Clare Dean has published "New Advances in Open Source Infrastructure Support: Accelerated Book Digitization with Editoria" in Insights.
Here's an excerpt:
How can open source infrastructure support a modernized, accelerated book production workflow? The California Digital Library, the University of California Press and the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation collaborated to design a new platform—Editoria—to do exactly this, following a new user-driven design method to result in a simple, people-centric interface. This case study details the main problem facing publishers who are restrained by outdated, print-oriented production platforms, the 'reimagining' exercise and the iterative design process that has resulted in new technology which can be adopted, adapted and integrated by publishers.
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"BISG Releases Draft White Paper on Open Access Ebook Usage"
The Book Industry Study Group has released Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
This funded project is designed to identify the challenges in understanding the usage of OA ebooks, suggest some opportunities for resolving them, and create a framework for future action through community consultation. It focuses on the challenges of identifying and aggregating relevant information from different platforms, analyzing what has been gathered in ways that respect user privacy, and communicating relevant information about usage to stakeholders.
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"The Rights Provisions of a Book Publishing Contract"
Melody Herr has published "The Rights Provisions of a Book Publishing Contract" in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
Here's an excerpt:
When signing a publishing contract, an author makes decisions which directly affect the book's availability. In order to decide judiciously which rights to retain and which to transfer to a publisher, she needs an understanding of U.S. copyright law and the author-publisher partnership. In this article, Melody Herr, PhD, a scholarly communications professional who has over 16 years of experience in academic publishing and who has authored six books herself, explains the rights provisions of a book contract. First, she discusses copyright ownership and describes the ways in which copyright's components apply to scholarly books. After enumerating the benefits and drawbacks of allocating specific rights to a publisher, she highlights contract wording to watch for and suggests the rights an author may wish to retain by negotiating an addendum. She then explains how an author may reclaim rights granted to a publisher through reversion or termination of transfer. In the conclusion, she recommends that outreach programs target scholars at critical moments when they face decisions regarding publication of their work.
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