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RA21: Corporate Pilot Outcomes and Recommendations
In today’s distributed network environment, IP authentication has outlived its useful life. When attempting to access subscribed content and other resources while off-site or on off-network mobile devices, many end-users can find themselves shut out.
A Private Eye in The Library
“There’s a limit to what you can find online. In investigative work, what’s missing is where your risk is. That’s why we also do courthouse record searching, or we may do in-person or phone interviews. It’s for the human touch – the things you can’t find online.”
2018 National Book Awards Announced
The National Book Awards are more diverse than ever, and they are younger, hipper, more edgy and more current.
How Blockchain Might Open The Rights Management Black Box
Why do we need a black box? If we expect accountability and accuracy and we want to make sure that money is going to the right people, we need to eliminate that box and introduce a level of transparency
Publishing Salary Survey Finds Gender Gap Persists
For 2018, average annual salary for men in publishing rose slightly to $87,000. However, average annual salary for women is only $60,000—a $27,000 gap.
Global Voices For Workplace Equity
Setting policy is one thing. But if your own line manager doesn’t understand or doesn’t interpret these things in the way the company intends, then your own experience is very, very different from others around you.
Publisher Voices Raised For Copyright
If the value of publishing is more broadly appreciated and recognized, the copyright discussions are easier.
PW’s Best of 2018 Announced
‘A pyrotechnical marvel’ with a plot rooted in the Philippine-American War, Insurrecto unspools over decades and across the globe as it raises questions about class, conquest, and who gets to tell history.
Guide to a ‘Plan S’ Impact Assessment
The theme for OA Week 2018 is “designing equitable foundations for open knowledge.”
The Rise of Open Access Books
In 2017, the Directory of Open Access Books marked the 10,000 titles milestone. Today, this important service lists almost 13,000 academic peer-reviewed books, monographs and chapters from 282 publishers.
US Copyright Office Reviewing Registration Practices
The Copyright Office seeks input on three areas of reform: (1) the administration and substance of the application for registration; (2) the utility of the public record; and (3) the deposit requirements for registration.
Plan S Lands At Frankfurt
In a special “pop-up” program for the Frankfurt Book Fair, a trio of leading scholarly publishers shared what it takes for Open Access publishers to be smart about Plan S