Category: Publishing
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In which our hero borrows an e-book from the public library
I wish I could remember the first book I borrowed from Cambridge Children’s Library, then at the rear of the Guildhall, opposite the Corn Exchange. I must have been four or five. I can remember the books I borrowed most frequently until I asked to be allowed to move on to the adult libray at…
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Richard Smith tries to access some journals
In a blog post, the former BMJ editor, Richard Smith, describes a week of trying to access articles. Do read it, though, to summarise, he tries to read five articles. One is freely available; the rest are behind paywalls. He can only get the articles with the help of the author, in one case, and…
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Health Information and Libraries Journal’s Silver Jubilee
Health Information and Libraries Journal, or HILJ, pronounced by the irreverent to rhyme with bilge, is 25 years old. The journal has marked its birthday with a splendid celebratory issue, guest-edited by Andrew Booth, or Andrew Boot, as CILIP’s Library and Information Gazette dubs him. As well as reflections by Andrew, Penny Bonnett, Assistant Editor…
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Media librarians
Following neatly some of the things Gertrud Erbach had to say at UCL last week, today’s Guardian carries a piece by Richard Nelsson on the future for media librarians to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Association of UK Media Librarians (AUKML). Personal trivia: I was a AUKML member in the early 90s, during a…
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Sometimes life defies parody. The Financial Times, like every other newspaper, led on Saturday with a terrorism-related story. But they know their readers well: “Anti-terror boost for duty-free” was the headline. Technorati Tags: newspapers
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Capitalist publishing doesn’t work
From yesterday’s Guardian, Publishers unite against Google, a story on Google Book Search. “Joel Rickett, deputy editor of the Bookseller, says publishers are tempted to back Google in its partner programme because there are no devices in much of the world on to which a scanned book could be downloaded so the threat posed is…
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Suitability of Creative Commons for the UK Public Sector analysed in new report
Suitability of Creative Commons for the UK Public Sector analysed in new report: “ The Common Information Environment (CIE) today published the results of a study into the applicability of the international Creative Commons licenses to a range of UK public sector resources. The study was undertaken for the CIE by Intrallect and the AHRC…
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Once again on the decline of the press
When the Independent started, one of their founding principles was that they would not cover the royal stories on which nearly every other newspaper wasted ink by the gallon (apart from the Morning Star who reported one of the royal weddings of that era with a one-line item saying that "traffic in central London was…
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The British Press
John Lloyd in Saturday’s Financial Times magazine (online to subscribers only I’m afraid) writes on the state of the British press and believes that the Guardian is now the paper of the British establishment. He may have a point (actually one could argue this is the case under Labour governments) but it raises the question,…
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TouchGraph browser for Amazon Citations
I saw on HubLog the TouchGraph browser for Amazon Citations: HubLog warns it may not be working, and I’m blowed if I can see it on the UK Amazon site. But this link to amzon.com works: Amazon’s new citations feature Interesting idea, though: citation indexing applied to a new area.
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BMJ
Today’s BMJ reports that BMJ Publishing is selling its book publishing operation, BMJ Books, to Blackwell Publishing.
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LRB: replies to John Sutherland
Two letters in the new London Review of Books reply to John Sutherland’s piece which I mentioned in this blog two weeks ago.. Jonathan Sawday suggests that 2% of the Arts and Humanities Research Board budget be set aside to support a peer-reviewed AHRB imprint, while Jon Price suggests institutional self-archiving.
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LRB: John Sutherland on publishing
John Sutherland writes the diary in the latest London Review of Books , which he devotes to a discussion of publishing. His remarks were inspired by a letter to all his members from last year’s President of the Modern Languages Association (for me and other medical librarians the “other” MLA…those initals evoke the Medical Library…