Sentences with phrase «scholarly publishing system»

The vast majority of library publishing programs (almost 90 %) were launched in order to contribute to change in the scholarly publishing system, supplemented by

The vast majority of library publishing programs (almost 90 %) were launched in order to contribute to change in the scholarly publishing system, supplemented by a variety of other mission - related motivations.

What is needed — as I have been stressing for some time now — is for the whole scholarly publishing system to move, as a whole, to being «accessible and open immediately.»

Not exact matches

July 21, 2011: Scholarly Journal Publishes Article on How California Would be Changed if it Used Proportional Representation July 21, 2011: Sacramento Bee Runs Op - Ed Advocating Proportional Voting Systems July 21, 2011: Utah Republican Party Vice-Chair Testifies in Favor of Instant Runoff Voting

As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky research, and so on.»

This, together with steadily increasing funding from Parliament administered by the DST, has led to the building of capacity in the ASSAf secretariat, many further evidence - based studies and forum - based activities, a large - scale Scholarly Publishing Programme, a strong international presence and a wide acceptance of the Academy's key role in the national system of innovation.

I've been writing about e-books since the early 1990s and am the author of the TeleRead chapter of Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier (MIT / ASIS), where I call for a well - stocked national digital library system carefully integrated with schools and libraries --- and the popularization of book - friendly hardware.

Some sources say BookScan does not report on 75 to 85 % of sales but I'd bet that number is actually lower (in terms of what BookScan reports on) because if you consider the lists of technical, scholarly, law - related books, the Christian market, the millions of self - published titles each year, and all of the eBooks that use Amazon's ASIN system, I'd wager a guess that BookScan gets maybe 65 - 70 % of the market.

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.

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

The traditional system of scholarly publishing is broken and no longer supportable; and hence, the «open access» movement for the publishing of scholarly works.

I have chosen to do so as it has become a common enough concern, and one that I may otherwise seem to be exacerbating through the Public Knowledge Project's lowering of the cost barrier for scholarly publishing by developing and distributing its open source (free) Open Journal Systems.