Richard Brown, the director of Georgetown U. Press and the new president of the university-press association, says that scholarly publishing is not in a state of crisis but in a state of "perpetual transition." Read More at PageView (CHE) »
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“Scholarly Presses Confront an Increasingly Digital Present”
Hyperabundance and the future of the long-form argument, how and what libraries buy, and e-books, e-books, e-books: Those topics were front and center at the annual conference of the Association of American University Presses, held in Salt Lake City June 17-20, 2010. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Digital Repositories Foment a Quiet Revolution in Scholarship”
What's going into the institutional repositories that many universities have set up--and who cares? Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs”
Faced with what it says is a 400-percent increase in site-license costs for the Nature group's journals, the University of California threatens to cancel its subscriptions and organize a faculty boycott. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Nature Publishing Group Defends Its Price Increase for U. of California”
The scientific publisher picks up the gauntlet thrown by the University of California over rising journal prices. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
