Sentences with phrase «scholarly publishers in»

The leading scholarly publisher in New Zealand, publishing Maori studies, New Zealand history and biography, and is the country's major publisher of new poetry.

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McGill - Queen's University Press is a scholarly publisher of books that engage in public debate, current events, politics, contemporary thought, and the arts.»

With the proliferation of Internet e-books and c - journals, publishers are developing e-strategies to preserve their role in authenticating scholarly work.

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers hired Eric Dezenhall, head of Dezenhall Resources, a public relations firm that specializes in «high stakes communications and marketplace defense,» to address some of its members this past summer and potentially craft a media strategy.

A broad consensus on the need to enable public access to all U.S. federal research emerged in a report published in January by the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, a panel of librarians, academic leaders and publishers convened last June by the OSTP and the House Committee on Science and Technology.

Since the UK Research Councils announced their signatures, 17 additional organizations have signed the declaration, including the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, and the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele.

Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award, Honorable Mention in Mathematics and Statistics for Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis, Association of American Publishers, (2003)

The 2010 PROSE Awards received a record - breaking 491 entries - more than ever before in its 35 - year history - from more than 60 professional and scholarly publishers across the country.

Meanwhile, the publisher also announced they will have a new platform in place which will cater to the library segment by offering scholarly ebooks.

According to a statement from the publisher, all proceeds from the sale of Frommer's and these other brands are slated to boost Wiley's interest is onther areas of publishing, and specifically «will be redeployed to support growth opportunities in Professional / Trade; Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly; and Global Education businesses.»

Carol Stephenson, University Library Sector Over the past 27 years as an academic librarian, Carol Stephenson has been engaged in issues affecting scholarly communication from roles at the university, provincial, and national level and from participation on publisher advisory boards.

Emerald's user - centered discoverability strategy provides some important lessons in how publishers might adopt a more deliberate, evidence - based approach to facilitating scholarly information seeking and retrieval.

HighWire, which was founded in 1995 and is a part of the Stanford University library system, partners with a variety of sources like universities, publishers, and professional organizations to publish scholarly journals, ebooks, and more, while Tizra's web - based platform makes book discovery and book selling a more streamlined process.

The metadata librarian in question, Jeffrey Beall, has been featured in prominent journals and newspapers for his work on his site, Scholarly Open Access, which exposes publishers and journals who may be operating under false pretenses or bad business practices.

Indian publisher OMICS Publishing Group, who claims to publish around 200 scholarly journals, is suing the librarian for $ 1 billion and threatening him with criminal prosecution, which they claim under Indian law can result in up to three years in prison.

In this article, he talks about his recent book, Scholarly Publishing and its Discontents, which looks at the market power of journal publishers.

Instead, my book was motivated by a distinct, albeit related, concern: that in the scholarly world, journal publishers had too much market power and that academics, despite the best of their intentions, had been mostly unable to do anything about it.

They offer academic ebooks from all the world's leading scholarly and academic book publishers and have over 50,000 titles to choose from in a wide variety of academic disciplines.

For McFarland, an independent publisher of scholarly books situated in the mountains of North Carolina, Amazon's email presented a money - losing proposition.

After a 23 - year career in trade and scholarly publishing working with major publishers such as Oxford University Press and Macmillan, during which she pioneered digital publishing, she set up Alison Jones Business Services and the Practical Inspiration Publishing imprint in 2014.

While many trade publishers assign copyright to the author, many university presses do not, which leaves scholarly authors in a bind when it comes to reusing material... Read more»

Books on Project MUSE offer thousands of peer - reviewed digital books from major university presses and scholarly publishers and allow books to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from over 600 journals currently on MUSE.

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The book collections offer thousands of peer - reviewed digital books from over 65 major university presses and scholarly publishers and allow books to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from nearly 500 journals currently on MUSE.

The first thing to note with Tri-Agency Policy is that it considerably abridges the author and publisher's right to restrict access, limiting it to twelve months rather fifty years after the author's death (whether the author retains the copyright or assigns it to the publisher, which is often a condition for publication in scholarly publishing).

In another common theme to the publisher letters, London Biggs, of State Government Affairs — West for Elsevier (the largest of commercial scholarly publishers), refers in her letter to «misunderstandings as to what is, and what is not, the direct result of taxpayer funding.&raquIn another common theme to the publisher letters, London Biggs, of State Government Affairs — West for Elsevier (the largest of commercial scholarly publishers), refers in her letter to «misunderstandings as to what is, and what is not, the direct result of taxpayer funding.&raquin her letter to «misunderstandings as to what is, and what is not, the direct result of taxpayer funding.»

To digitize collections and sell the product in ways that fail to guarantee wide access would be to repeat the mistake that was made when publishers exploited the market for scholarly journals, but on a much greater scale, for it would turn the Internet into an instrument for privatizing knowledge that belongs in the public sphere.

Publishers would be able to charge for their services in managing peer review and publishing scholarly articles, leading to a free market and fair prices for such services (rather than the huge discrepancies in journal pricing that currently exist with monopoly rights).

It suggests that the fair use defense is being ignored by Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers, and that publishers are just saying no to what would otherwise be an entirely legal response to one of the major literary phenomenon of the age, and one that could only foster an interest not only in this literary work, but the value and pleasure of scholarly inquiry.

And what the publishers have made clear, despite this call for respecting others» needs, is their willingness to criminalize, in effect, the scholarly activities of those downloading the million papers a week to which they have no other access (or perhaps none as convenient), and those, among the 13 million people on ResearchGate, who have posted copies of their own (published) work.

As you might imagine, this throws a small wrench into the intellectual property concept of scholarly publication, in which the publisher reaps the profits, while the honors of priority and attribution go to the identified authors.

After interest has been expressed in seeing this policy spread to other areas of federal research funding, such as education, it appears that Elsevier, the leading corporate publisher of scholarly journals, and other publishers have pushed for the Research Works Act to put an end to such initiatives (judging by Elsevier's campaign support for the bipartisan sponsors of the bill, as Peter Suber documents in a website devoted to the bill).

Barriers to access — including traditional means of communicating and publishing scholarly research, aggravated by traditional tenure evaluation practices, and especially publishers» restrictive copyright licensing practices — are increasingly unacceptable in an online, born - digital world.

It's time for change in the industry — it's time «for legal publishers, the legal community, and representatives of the broader scholarly and professional publishing community to engage in productive dialogue and collaboration».

His book, The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By, received APA's 2006 William James Award and the 2007 Association of American Publishers Award for excellence in professional and scholarly publishing.

She is editor of Children in a Violent Society (Guilford Press, 1997), two editions of the Handbook of Infant Development (Wiley, 1979, 1987), and co-editor of the four - volume WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health, which received the Association of American Publishers / Professional and Scholarly Publishing PROSE Award as the best multivolume reference / science book in 2000.