Not exact matches
Meanwhile, the
publisher also announced they will have a new platform in place
which will cater to the library segment by offering
scholarly ebooks.
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.
Project MUSE recently announced details about its new ebook collections, including more than 14,000 titles from 66 university presses and
scholarly publishers,
which are available to order now but won't be made accessible until January 1, 2012.
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»
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).
Now Elsevier, the largest
publisher of
scholarly journals, has acquired the company itself,
which provides a centralized repository service called Digital... [more]
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.
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.