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.
Not exact matches
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.
In general we solicit participation from university presses in the U.S. and abroad and independent, not - for - profit society and scholarly publisher
In general we solicit participation from university presses
in the U.S. and abroad and independent, not - for - profit society and scholarly publisher
in the U.S. and abroad and independent, not - for - profit society and
scholarly publishers.
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
in 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.