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Open Access Special: Making An Asset of Compliance and Reporting
The Next Wave of Open Access is coming on fast. Scholarly publishing must move beyond a single-issue focus on Article Processing Charges to address end-to-end solutions that engage authors throughout the workflow. To maintain a robust and transparent Open Access...
Open Access, The Next Wave
The Next Wave of Open Access is coming on fast. Scholarly publishing must move beyond a single-issue focus on Article Processing Charges to address end-to-end solutions that engage authors throughout the workflow. At a Frankfurt Book Fair panel discussion organized...
Europe’s E-books Challenge
Let’s face it, says Rüdiger Wischenbart, not one prediction about the future direction of eBooks has been proven right, no matter where you look around the world. According to the Vienna-based publishing consultant and author of the annual Global eBook Report, the...
Quiet In The Library, Please, Deals Being Made
The quiet in the library these days is reserved for the reading rooms. In the library business world, there is anything but silence. Whether they are public, corporate or institutional facilities, libraries are witnessing wide-scale change as they move from a physical...
Best of BTB: Open Access: Who Holds the Power?
Copyright Clearance Center welcomes you to join us for another Frankfurt Book Fair Town Meeting on Open Access, on Thursday, October 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. in Hall 4.C – Alliance Function Room. For 2015, CCC is asking what the “Next Wave” of Open Access will bring...
Book Fair of the Future
The industry's leading trade shows have widely adapted to the digital age. Yet the book fair of 2015 is, in many respects, remarkable for its consistency with the past. Editors and agents continue to prize the chance to build global relationships as well as make...
After 28 Years, Librarian of Congress Retires
The year was 1987. The Iran-Iraq war raged on; the US and Soviet Union agreed to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons; and the first Simpsons television cartoons aired. Also in 1987, President Ronald Reagan swore into office James Billington as the Librarian of...
Best of BTB: The Force Remaking Scholarly Publishing
Copyright Clearance Center welcomes you to join us for another Frankfurt Book Fair Town Meeting on Open Access, on Thursday, October 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. in Hall 4.C – Alliance Function Room. For 2015, CCC is asking what the “Next Wave” of Open Access will bring...
Books Join The Sharing Economy
The era of the “sharing economy” is upon us. From Uber to AirBnb and Snapgoods to Taskrabbit, web-based companies can now match service providers to their customers easily and directly. For the taxi and hotel industries, the result is unprecedented and unforeseen...
Oyster May Become Google’s Pearl
Subscription services abound online, for music as well as video and film. In recent years, various start-ups also have vied for a role as “the Netflix for books.” Of those who’ve made a mark – Oyster and Scribd, to name two – success has proven a double-edge sword. In...
Elements of Blogging
Where it comes to media, as digital diva Clay Shirky once noted, consumers are now producers, and that is the big story. The once-great wall separating reporters from readers has crumbled like sand. High culture and low culture have pretty much found the same level on...
Second Author Solutions Suit Ends Like the First
Where do we go to get our reputation back? That’s the question executives at independent publishing service provider Author Solutions are likely asking. A pair of lawsuits by authors alleging fraudulent business practices at Authors Solutions have recently ended,...